Issue - meetings

Report ES19050

The Committee considered the revised Environment and Community Services Risk Register which formed part of the Annual Governance Statement evidence-base.

In relation to the Food Standards Agency Audit (Reference 12), the Head of Performance Management and Business Support reported that the outcome of the Food Standards Agency Audit remained outstanding but it was hoped that once the outcome was received the risk would reduce.

(NB: Following the meeting the Assistant Director for Public Protection confirmed that Food Standards Agency had considered the evidence provided and confirmed that they would close the existing open published FSA audit.  The Lead Practitioner and the Food Safety Team had worked extraordinarily hard, and the progress they had made over the past year had been exceptional. Notwithstanding this, the FSA would still monitor progress in tackling the overdue unrated establishments for 6-12 months, (outside of the audit), however, the Assistant Director was confident that the action plan would tackle the issue and that there would be no matters arising out of it.)

In respect of Income Reconciliation (Public Protection Licensing) (Reference 19) the Committee noted that there had been a positive outcome from the Internal Audit and some recommendations had been made.  Further work was being done around reconciliation and it was expected that this would further reduce the risk.

Members noted that the Risk Register would be considered by the Corporate Risk Management Group following the meeting.

RESOLVED: That the Environment and Community Safety Risk Register is noted.