Issue - meetings

The Committee had before it a report by Martin Allan (Business Manager, ACHSCP) which presented the Committee with a revised version of the Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership’s strategic risk register and risk appetite statement.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee -

(a)          Approve the revised risk appetite statement, as attached at appendix A; and

(b)          Approve the revised strategic risk register, as attached at appendix B.

Martin Allan advised that the risk appetite statement and strategic risk register had been reviewed following the IJB’s risk management workshop on 24 April 2018. He highlighted the key changes which had been made and noted that the Executive Team would continue to monitor the register on an ongoing basis. He also recommended that it would be good practice for the Committee to focus on three risks per meeting and provide strategic oversight of the register up until its next formal review by the IJB.

Thereafter there was discussion on the need to further embed risk management within strategic and operational reporting to ensure that performance management, risk management and the Strategic Plan provided the IJB with a framework to take difficult decisions when required.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)           to approve the revised risk appetite statement, as attached at appendix A;

(ii)          to approve the revised strategic risk register, as attached at appendix B; and

(iii)         to agree to monitor three risks within the strategic risk register at each Committee meeting up until the next review period, and to treat the register as a living document.