Issue - meetings

That the content of the Surrey County Council Leadership risk register, as set out in Annex 1 to the submitted report, be notes and the control actions put in place by the Statutory Responsibilities Network be endorsed.

Reasons for Decisions:

To enable the Cabinet to keep Surrey County Council’s strategic risks under review and to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to mitigate risks to a tolerable level in the most effective way.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Council Overview Board]

The Cabinet Member for Business Services and Resident Experience said that the Surrey County Council Leadership risk register was presented to Cabinet each quarter and this report presented the Leadership risk register as at 31 January 2016.

She said that the Leadership Risk Register was owned by the Chief Executive and captured the County Council’s key strategic risks and that the role of the Cabinet was to ensure that appropriate actions were being taken to mitigate risks.

She said that the register had been extensively reviewed during December 2015 / January 2016 and there were now eight risks on it, split into two sections – strategic risks and cross-cutting risks. She also said that a number of risks had been removed from the register, for various reasons, as set out in Annex 2 of the submitted report.

The Cabinet Member for Environment and Planning considered that this version of the Leadership Risk Register was an excellent piece of work and that it was succinct and easy to follow. He commended it to Members.

RESOLVED:

That the content of the Surrey County Council Leadership risk register, as set out in Annex 1 to the submitted report, be notes and the control actions put in place by the Statutory Responsibilities Network be endorsed.

Reasons for Decisions:

To enable the Cabinet to keep Surrey County Council’s strategic risks under review and to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to mitigate risks to a tolerable level in the most effective way.