Agenda item

The Director of Finance, Assets and Information Services will submit a report outlining the progress made to date towards the achievement of the goals set out in the Council’s Risk Management Policy and signposting further work to be undertaken in the year.

The Risk and Governance Manager presented a report on behalf of the Director of Finance, Assets and Information Services.

Members were reminded of the review of the Risk Management Framework in April, 2015 and subsequent update of the Strategic Risk Register in, October 2015.  It was noted that the Council’s Operational Risk Register have also been reviewed and was now aligned to future council arrangements.

The Committee heard how the Annual Governance Review process had been reviewed early in 2015/16, and the Annual Governance Statement  was approved by Council in September, 2015.

Members were updated on Risk Management performance for quarter 3 and it was noted that a benchmarking exercise had been recently undertaken.  This suggested that the outputs and overall maturity of the Council’s Risk Management arrangements were broadly in line with similar authorities.

The Committee considered the Risk Management workplan and discussed the Objective to ‘Support and encourage Risk Management activity throughout the Council and its partners’.  The difference between organisations that were considered partners and those which the Council had only a contractual arrangement with were noted.

RESOLVED that the Risk Management Update Report be received.