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Leadership Risk Register

 

 

Meeting: 18/10/2016 - Cabinet (Item 203)

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Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

That the content of the Surrey County Council Leadership risk register (Annex 1 of the submitted report) be noted 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.

 

 

Minutes:

Attention was drawn to L1 on the Leadership Risk Register by the Cabinet Member for Business Services and Resident Experience who indicated that a lack of funding leading to significant constraints on the delivery of Council Services was no longer simply a risk but rather a reality. All mitigation measures had been exhausted to secure fair funding and SCC was now facing a watershed moment in terms of funding services.

 

The Leader stressed that the challenges in the midst of which SCC now found itself was not as a result of incompetence or poor financial management on the part of the Council but rather changes to allocation of the Revenue Services Grant which would result in SCC owing the Exchequer £17 million annually.

 

Other Cabinet Members made the following comments:

 

·         The involvement of scrutiny boards in considering risks to the Council was welcomed as it is vital that all Members are aware of potential challenges that have been identified.

 

·         Consideration should be given to reviewing L1 on the Leadership Risk Register to indicate that this was no longer a risk but rather an actual issue that the Council was required to tackle.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the content of the Surrey County Council Leadership risk register (Annex 1 of the submitted report) be noted 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.