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Corporate Risk Register

Meeting: 22/11/2016 - Audit and Risk Management Committee (Item 33)

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Minutes:

The Assistant Director Finance and Section 151 Officer introduced the report of the Chief Executive that provided an update in respect of the corporate risks. Progress towards the development of Risk Registers for Pledge Strategies, new Delivery Units and the revised Transformation Programme were also summarised. A copy of the Register was appended to the report.

 

The Assistant Director Finance and Section 151 Officer informed that since the review carried out on 16 August Ofsted had published a report on its inspection of the Council’s services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers, and in addition reviewed the effectiveness of the Local Safeguarding Children Board.  He informed that overall Ofsted judged that children’s services in Wirral had been deemed inadequate and that the Wirral Safeguarding Children’s Board was also inadequate. This had rightly led to reconsideration of the effectiveness of the existing controls for the corporate ‘Safeguarding’ risk and the need for additional action.

 

As a result the Director of Children’s Services had proposed amendments to the entry in the Corporate Risk Register relating to Safeguarding.  Members were also advised that this particular entry related to a safeguarding incident whereas the Ofsted report was more relevant to compliance and process.

 

Resolved – That

 

1)  the update to the controls for the ‘Safeguarding’ risk be noted; and

 

2)  further reports on the Corporate Risk Register be brought to future meetings of this Committee.