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Item from Cabinet minutes of 11 February 2021 – to follow

Due to the timescale and print deadline, the recommendations arising from the meeting of Cabinet will be circulated to Members in advance of the meeting of Council.

Item CB 21/22 referred from Cabinet minutes of 11 February 2021

RESOLVED:  That the recommendations at Minute CB 21/22 be approved.

The report asks Members to review the Risk Management Strategy and accompanying Risk Management Guidance and to recommend its adoption by Full Council.

The report also provides an update on the risk management process and the Strategic Risk Register.

The report of the Management Team invited Members to review the Risk Management Strategy and accompanying Risk Management Guidance which set out the Borough Council’s risk management objectives and detailed the roles and responsibilities of officers, Members and partners in the identification, evaluation and cost-effective control risks.  The report also provided an update on the risk management process and the Strategic Risk Register.  Members noted that the entry in relation to the local county elections and the Local Plan had been escalated to ‘high risk’.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the Risk Management Strategy and accompanying Risk Management Guidance be endorsed and adopted by the Council; and

(2)             the updates to the Strategic Risk Register since the last reiteration be noted, with particular emphasis on the escalation to RED (high risk) of the risks set out in paragraph 1.4.6. and duplicated below:

-        Financial position/budget deficit

-        Brexit/EU Transition Impact and Economic uncertainty (severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic

-        Corporate Strategy and Savings and Transformation Strategy

-        Waste Services

-        Elections

-        Local Plan

*Referred to Council

The report asks Members to review the Risk Management Strategy and accompanying Risk Management Guidance and to recommend its adoption by the Council.  It also provides an update on the risk management process and the Strategic Risk Register. 

Members reviewed the Risk Management Strategy and accompanying Risk Management Guidance attached at Annexes 1 and 2 respectively.

The report of the Management Team also provided an update on the risk management process and the Strategic Risk Register (Annex 3).  Members were reminded that as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and measures taken in response a number of risks had been re-categorised as RED and this remained the case.  There had also been significant risks identified with the Local Plan and the delivery of local elections and these had been escalated to RED.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the Risk Management Strategy and the Risk Management Guidance be commended to the Cabinet for adoption by Full Council; and

(2)             the updates to the Strategic Risk Register since the last iteration, with particular emphasis on the escalation to Red of the risks set out in paragraph 1.4.6 of the report, be noted.

*Referred to Cabinet