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Six Monthly Review of the Council's Corporate Risk Register

Meeting: 14/04/2015 - Cabinet (Item 9)

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Minutes:

Background:

 

This report provided details of the latest review of the Council’s Corporate Business Risk Register and proposed changes to the Risk Register were detailed in Appendix A and B to the report.

 

It was noted that the 6 monthly review of the Council’s Corporate Business Risk Register would normally be submitted to the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee, ahead of consideration by Cabinet. On this occasion, with cross-party agreement, the Committee meeting on 9 April 2015 was cancelled subject to a briefing being arranged on the Risk Register report for Cabinet for the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Group Spokespersons of the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which took place on 20 March 2015. The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Labour Group Spokesperson attended this briefing and details of their comments were set out in section 5 of the report.

 

Decision number:

Decision:

75/2015

The Cabinet noted the comments of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Labour Group Spokesperson of the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee, as set out in paragraph 5 of this report, and approved the addition of a new corporate risk for the Better Care Fund (with a risk rating of C2).

76/2015

The Cabinet approved the amendments to the Council’s Risk Register, as detailed in Appendix A and B to the report.

Reasons:

 

The establishment of a corporate framework for risk management is recommended by CIPFA and SOLACE and will complement and support the work already being carried out within each directorate to manage risks.