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Corporate Risk Management

 

 

Meeting: 23/06/2021 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 9)

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Report of the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services on the updated Corporate Risk Register, indicating that since the last meeting the Corporate Risk Register had been reviewed and updated.

 

Mr David Eden, Chief Internal Auditor presented the report indicating that two new risks had been added or escalated from the Service Risk Registers to the Corporate Risk Register, namely:

 

  • Gaps in understanding of community needs; and
  • School debts transferring back to the Council

 

No risks had been de-escalated from the Corporate Risk Register to the Service Risk Register; and one risk had not been updated with revised contact and confirmed that it remained up to date – namely:

 

  • Failure to manage pandemic.

 

Mr Eden reminded the Committee that at the Audit and Governance Committee held on 18 December 2019, it had been agreed that for future meetings, a short presentation would be made by a risk owner on one of the risks listed in the Corporate Risk Register. In this respect, Mr Stephen Watson, Executive Director – Place had been invited to provide a presentation to the Committee on one of the risks listed in the Corporate Risk Register relating to the impact on the Sefton economy of Covid-19, EU Exit, winter and austerity.  Accordingly, Mr Watson gave a presentation to the Committee and answered questions thereon.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)

the contents of the Corporate Risk Register, particularly the nature of the major risks facing the Council and the controls and planned action in place to mitigate these risks be noted;

 

(2)

Mr Watson be thanked for his informative presentation on the risks associated with the Sefton economy and measures being put into place to reduce / remove the risks; and

 

(3)

the Head of Children’s Social Care be invited to a future meeting to provide a presentation on one of the risks in the Corporate Risk Register relating to Children’s Social Care.