Issue - meetings

The Service Director – Corporate presented a report on risk management activities during 2021/22 and introduced the revised Risk Management Strategy and Strategic Risk Register for 2022/23 for consideration.

Following the Corporate Leadership Team restructure, the responsibility for Corporate Risk Management had transitioned into the Corporate Directorate and a number of changes had taken place which were detailed in paragraph 4.1 of the officer’s report.

The Risk Management Strategy 2022/23, attached at Appendix 1 of the officer’s report, would establish a framework for the effective and systematic management of risk, ensuring that risk management was embedded throughout the council. The strategy sought to ensure consistency across the council when managing risks and clearly defined the roles and responsibilities including the Corporate Risk Management Group (CRMG) who develop and implement the Risk Management Strategy and are accountable to the Corporate Leadership Team.

The CRMG had reviewed the Council’s Strategic Risk Register utilising a variety of information, data and techniques. Both the Risk Register and the Risk Register Summary were attached at Appendix 2 and 3 of the officer’s report and would be live documents, reviewed quarterly by the CRMG. A monitoring report would be submitted to this Committee twice each year.

*RESOLVED –

1.   That the progress made on developing the Council’s approach to risk management during 2021/22 be noted.

2.   That the Risk Management Strategy 2022/23 and Strategic Risk Register base document for 2022/23 be recommended to Full Council for approval.