The Team Leader – Governance provided members of the Board with the opportunity to review the updated risk register which supports the corporate strategy.

Members asked for clarification on which risks were reducing and the Team Leader – Governance gave assurance that several risks were reducing including Member Knowledge and Understanding and the Border to Coast Strategic Plan and that another review of the Register was in progress with more risks expected to move to ‘red’ from ‘amber’. Members requested future reports include the risk score from the previous review so they can assess how much a risk has reduced or increased.

Members asked what the process was for rolling out the implementation of operational risk registers to all teams. The Team Leader – Governance explained that the process would be done in stages across all the relevant services in the organisation. The first stage involves the Governance Team, ICT team and the Programmes and Performance team, which are progressing well and should all be fully live with their operational risk registers on the Pentana system by the end of this quarter. It was noted that good progress on maximising use of the system was being made.

RESOLVED: Members noted and commented upon the revised corporate Risk Register at Appendix A.