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Item CB 18/13 referred from Cabinet minutes of 8 February 2018

Item CB 18/3 referred from Cabinet minutes of 8 February 2018

RESOLVED:  That the recommendations at Minute CB 18/3 be approved.

The report asks Members to review the Risk Management Strategy and to recommend its endorsement by the Council.  It also refers to the resourcing pressures in respect of the risk ‘Emergency Planning’ and adds a new strategic risk in relation to potentially contaminated land.

The report of the Management Team invited Members to review the Risk Management Strategy which set out the Council’s risk management objectives and detailed the roles and responsibilities of officers, Members and partners in the identification, evaluation and cost-effective control of risks.  Attention was drawn to the resourcing pressures in respect of ‘Emergency Planning’ and the addition of a new strategic risk in relation to potentially contaminated land.

It was noted that the Audit Committee at its meeting on 22 January 2018 had endorsed the updated strategy.

The Director of Finance and Transformation referred to the recent collapse of Carillion which, whilst not directly affecting the Borough Council, highlighted the risk associated with the failure of major partners.  The Strategic Risk Register had been updated to reflect this situation and would be reported back to the Audit Committee in due course.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the updated Risk Management Strategy be adopted by the Council;

(2)             the impact of ongoing resourcing pressures to respond in respect of the identified risk ‘Emergency Planning’ and the subsequent report to the 29 January meeting of the General Purposes Committee on resourcing requirements be noted; and

(3)             the emergence of a new strategic risk in respect of the monitoring of potentially contaminated land, which is being added to the Strategic Risk Register, be noted.

*Referred to Council