Issue - meetings

To consider the Risk Management and Business Continuity Strategies detailed in the report.

Members considered a proposed risk management strategy designed to take risk management forward and enable the corporate strategic risk register to be compiled.

Risk management was a fundamental element of corporate governance, and was integral to all areas of the Council’s activities. Business Continuity Management, aimed at ensuring that the Council was a resilient organisation, capable of delivering its critical services regardless of any unforeseen event, was an essential element of risk management, and needed to be managed within the risk management framework.

RESOLVED

That Cabinet be recommended that

(1)   the Risk Management and Business Continuity Strategies attached as Appendices to the report be approved; and

(2)   a Member representative be included in meetings of the Corporate Risk Management Group.