Issue - meetings

That the contents of the Leadership Risk Register, attached as Annex A to the submitted report, be noted and the control actions put in place by the Continual Improvement Board be endorsed.

Reasons for Decisions:

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

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Council Overview and Scrutiny Committee]

This report presented the latest Leadership Risk Register and the key changes made since it was last presented in March 2014. It was the first time that the report was in the name of the Cabinet Member for Business Services and she highlighted the key changes, namely:

·    Central Government policy development (L15) – risk description updated – it was previously ‘Welfare Reform’, and controls updated

·    IT risk (L4)- risk description updated, was previously ‘IT systems’, and controls updated

The Cabinet accepted that many of the seven high risks were outside the County Council control but discussed whether there was any possibility of reducing some of them to ‘medium’. It was agreed that the Cabinet Member for Community Services, as Cabinet lead for continuous improvement should attend a future Continuous Improvement Board.

The Leader of the Council also confirmed that he would be writing to Philip Hammond, MP for Runnymede, requesting a meeting to discuss the extra funding promised form Government, for the flooding recovery work.

RESOLVED:

That the contents of the Leadership Risk Register, attached as Annex A to the submitted report, be noted and the control actions put in place by the Continual Improvement Board be endorsed.

Reasons for Decisions:

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