Decision details

A report was presented by Paul Bond, Head of Legal and Democratic Services, providing an updated (Quarter 4) Corporate Risk and Opportunity Register for the Cabinet Committee to consider and comment upon.

The Cabinet Committee noted that the Register would be presented to the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee on 20^th May 2019. In addition, Corporate Management Team were due to review the Register in March so revisions and format changes may be seen for future meetings.

It was reported that, for this quarter, there were no new entries to the Register and two deletions.  The deletions were:

·  CR10 – 'Adult social provision is adequate and responsive to meet current and future demand'.

·  CR12 – 'Unlawful disclosure of personal or commercial data caused by a deliberate or accidental or technical breach, resulting in a risk to the rights and freedoms of the data subject or the intellectual property of the county council'.

The reasons for the deletions were provided within the report.  It was noted that CR12 would continue to be monitored on a quarterly basis by Corporate Management Team.

It was reported that Corporate Management Team had agreed to a second phase of the service challenge process and that it would be developed to include:

o  Further challenge for some phase 1 services based on updated benchmarking data;

o  Cross cutting themes (Organisational/Finance & Commercial/Health & Care)

The Cabinet Committee noted that phase 2 would be completed by Autumn 2019 and would then be fed into the next budget setting process.

Paul provided an update of the risks that remained on the Register.

Resolved: That the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement note the updated Corporate Risk and Opportunity Register.