Issue - meetings

This report updates councillors on the position of the Council’s Corporate Risk Register. The main updates are as follows:

·       All Corporate Risks were reviewed during the quarter;

·       The net scoring of risk CR16 - We may fail to secure of manage partnerships, miss out on associated funding and be unable to deliver services for communities, has reduced from 6 to 4 recognising the work underway to manage this risk;

·       Corporate risks CR21 - Impact of global events causing pressure on BCP Council & increase in service requirements and CR24 - We may fail to adequately address concerns around community safety, have been transferred to a new risk lead;

·       Corporate Risk CR24 - We may fail to adequately address concerns around community safety will be widened to include Failure to comply with the Prevent Duty;

·       Corporate Risk CR19 - We may fail to determine planning applications within statutory timescales, or within agreed extensions of time (EOT), will be removed from the Corporate Risk Register during the next quarter.

Material updates for this quarter are outlined in section 11.

The Risk and Insurance Manager presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'E' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

The report provided an update on the position of the Council’s Corporate Risk Register. All corporate risks were reviewed during Quarter 1. The report provided a summary of the changes in risk as set out in paragraphs 11 to 13 of the report with full details contained in Appendix 4. The report also updated on the progression of a new Risk Management Policy and the introduction of the new Risk app.

The Risk and Insurance Manager was asked if CR27 could include the expected completion dates and some more information on how the risk was managed. She also provided the following information in response to questions on the report:

• High level net risk and target risk scores which were shown as identical were being reviewed.
• Corporate Management Board (CMB) had agreed to add the Local Plan to the risk register in the next Quarter
• Housing Demand would be checked to see if it was already included in any existing risks or whether a new risk was required.
• In terms of what was being done to raise public awareness of the high level of risk associated with climate change (CR20), this would be checked with the risk owner and a response circulated.

The Chief Financial Officer explained that the generic risks identified by external auditor applied to all councils. Anything specific would be included as part of the annual audit and if required added to the risk register. He also explained why CR09 (ensuring balance budget) and CR23 (Dedicated schools grant) should continue to be treated as separate risks.

It was also noted that the fire safety issues raised by Internal Audit had been referred by Corporate Health and Safety and Fire Safety Board to CMB for consideration.

RESOLVED that the Committee notes the update provided in this report relating to corporate risks.

Voting: Agreed with no dissent