Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Deputy Leader of the Council

Forward Plan Ref: 2019/144

Contact: Steven Fairhurst Jones, Corporate Performance & Risk Manager Tel: 07392 318890

Report by Corporate Director Customers & Organisational Development (CA15).

The report presents the draft Risk and Opportunities Management Strategy for 2019-21 for approval. The Strategy will be the foundation for improvement of the Council’s risk management framework.

Cabinet is recommended to approve the draft Risk and Opportunities Management Strategy 2019-2021 (Annex A).

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet considereded the draft Risk and Opportunities Management Strategy for 2019-21. The Strategy will be the foundation for improvement of the Council’s risk management framework.

Councillor Glynis Phillips. Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance welcomed that the Peer Review had provided the impetus to look again at risk management. She hoped that what was created would be more than a static document. Performance Scrutiny Committee has already commented and had been glad that it was to be reviewed annually. Councillor Phillips stated that if it was to be an effective tool then members needed to know how to use it. Referring to the detail of the report Councillor Phillips commented that the report focussed on income generation and that she would like to see a greater focus on invest to save measures. The link to the Corporate Plan was vital. Councillor Phillips queried how it would be used to look at work for partners, for example when looking at the opportunities and risks associated with the Integrated Care System.

RESOLVED:            to approve the draft Risk and Opportunities Management Strategy 2019-2021 (Annex A).