Issue - meetings

To consider an update on the implementation of the Risk Management Strategy.

Members received an update on the implementation of the Risk Management Strategy which had been approved by Cabinet on 14 July, 2009.

The main points of progress were:

?       The Corporate Risk Management Group had met on two occasions since July 2009 and had developed an initial Strategic Risk Register, which was set out in Appendix 2 to the report. The risks included in the register had been prioritised using a scoring mechanism. Discussions were currently taking place to develop the current Risk Register further, and to ensure that all Strategic Risks were captured and mitigating actions identified.

?       A Risk Manager had recently been appointed within Internal Audit, and was working in conjunction with the two Audit Managers to support Services in the development of their Service Risk Registers. Discussions were also underway with the Audit Commission to assist in the embedding of risk and ensure that the process was robust and effective.

?       As part of the Council’s commitment to risk management, all audit staff had recently been on a risk-based auditing course.

?       A great deal of work had been put into assisting services to establish their risks, include risks in their service delivery plans and link their performance measures and targets to their risk management plans.      

?       Over the past few months, significant effort had been made in all services to develop business continuity plans to ensure that critical functions could continue to be delivered in an emergency. 

?       In order to embed risk management, a series of training sessions were currently being planned, and further work to link the risk management process to the performance management system was being developed, as the business planning framework was being reviewed and enhanced.

RESOLVED

That the progress towards the implementation of the Risk Management Framework be noted.