To consider a report of the Audit and Assurance Manager.

The Audit and Assurance Manager submitted a report which provided an update on the strategic risk environment, setting out developments relating to the management of each of the Council’s strategic risks. Members noted the increased risk categorisation in respect of the Council’s overall financial position; and that more specific reports, including in relation to cyber security, would be brought to the Committee’s meeting in February 2022. In respect of the newly included Climate Emergency risk, Members noted that the refinement of the definition of the risk and associated objectives and targets would facilitate the monitoring of its impact and mitigation.

          RESOLVED – That the content of the report be noted.