Issue - meetings

The Director of Finance submits a report that provides Committee with the regular update on the work of the Council’s Risk Management and Insurance Services team’s activities. The Committee is recommended to note the report.

The Director of Finance submitted a report giving the regular update on the work of the Council’s Risk Management and Insurance Services team’s activities.

The amount of risk management support and advice being given was welcomed, as this showed that proper consideration was being given to risk management.  In addition, any officers undertaking risk assessments were required to complete the Council’s training course.  The impact of this training was being seen in the improved management of risk and the subsequent reduction in the number of claims being received by the Council.  The training plan is attached at the end of these minutes for information.

The Committee noted that the ALARM/CIPFA Risk Management Benchmarking Club 2015 Draft Report for this Council, which had been circulated with the agenda, had now been finalised.  No changes had been made to the version circulated.  Members also noted that this was the final time that this report would be made annually.  In future, it would be made triennially, in rotation with reports on insurance and Internal Audit.

In reply to a question, Members noted that, when a court case relating to a claim against the Council was successfully defended, the Council was awarded its costs.

The Committee welcomed the progress made in risk management in the Council.

RESOLVED:

That the report be received and noted.