Agenda item

The Director of Delivery, Communications and Political Governance submits a report, which presents an update on the Strategic and Operational Risk Registers and Claims data and Health & Safety data.

The Director of Delivery, Communications and Political Governance presented a report on Risk Management that provided an update on strategic and operational risks since the last quarter.

The attention of the Committee was drawn to the summary of risks and noted that one new risk had been added, one deleted and 16 updated.

Reference was also made to the 17 Strategic risks on the Details of the Risk Register and also to the changes made since the last quarter.

The attention of the Committee was also drawn to the Operational Risk Register and to the section which outlined where changes had been made.

The Health and Safety data on the main incidents reported via SO2 forms over the past two years was also noted and it was reported that nearly half of the incidents were near-misses.

It was reported that Leicester City Council had won an award for the response to the Hinckley Road Explosion.

Councillor Rahman raised a query about risks regarding Cyber Security, noting that the Risk Score remained the same despite further controls.  She enquired as to why this was.

It was explained that whilst further controls had been identified, the critical nature of cyber security and the ever-changing detail of the threats meant that the risk score would always remain high.  The Internal Auditor added that this was an international risk and not just a local one.

The Chief Accountant offered to forward a previous Committee report from IT on how Cyber Security is addressed.

Councillor Dr Moore requested that reports on printed agendas be in colour in future to make them easier to interpret and further requested that they be posted to members on request, given their detailed nature.

It was reported that Sonal Devani had been a finalist in the ALARM the Professional of the Year Award and the Committee’s congratulations were noted.

RESOLVED:

                        That the contents of the report be noted.