Issue - meetings

Report FSD19002

The Committee considered a report which provided Members with the most recent Risk Registers for the areas falling under the Committee’s remit.  Members noted that issues around financial risks were addressed in the Budget Report within the Executive Agenda.

Referring to the effective governance and management of contracts, the Chairman questioned whether training was being further rolled out.  In response, the Director of Finance confirmed that the Assistant Director of Governance and Contracts was currently overseeing the roll out of training.  The Committee requested that the Assistant Director of Governance and Contracts provide an update of when the risk in light of the existing controls in place to mitigate the risk may be moved to ‘Amber’ or ‘Green’.

Action Point 22: That the Assistant Director of Governance and Contracts provide an update of when the risk in light of the existing controls in place to mitigate the risk may be moved to ‘Amber’ or ‘Green’.

Members noted that within Appendix B of the report, any reference to the Commissioning Board wold need to be amended in relation to the Council’s Transformation Agenda.  A Member sought and received assurances that the commissioning of services would continue once the process of service redesign had taken place.

The Vice-Chairman noted that in relation to the Pension Fund investment pools would be a significant risk to the Council going forward.  The Director of Finance confirmed that the risk rating would be evaluated once all the issues had been considered.

RESOLVED: That the report be noted.