Issue - meetings

To provide an update on the Council’s current strategic risks (report of the Assistant Director – Governance enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director – Governance which provided an update on the Council’s current strategic risks.

The Business Intelligence and Change Manager introduced the report by giving the following overview of the current status of the Council’s strategic risks:

• All of the risks had been reviewed however there had not been any changes to risk scores for Q2;
• Two new risks had been identified, as follows:
  • The delivery of the Council’s work programme and corporate objectives; this risk highlighted capacity issues with increased workloads within existing resources; and
  • The resilience and quality of service delivery arrangements with third parties, specifically the potential for failure of a major supplier of Council services or partners with whom the Council co-delivered/enabled provision of services and operations.
• Full details of identified risks were outlined in the SHDC Strategic Risk Register at Appendix A

Members considered the Q2 Risk Report 2023/2024 and made the following comments:

• Members were pleased that the two new stated risks had been acknowledged as these had been identified during the investigations of the Joint Scrutiny of the S&ELCP Task Group.

AGREED:

That after consideration of the Q2 Risk Report 2023/2024 and Appendix A, which detailed the latest assessment of the Council’s strategic risks, the report be noted by the Committee.