Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director of Finance and Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes

Purpose of report

This report summarises the Council’s Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring position as at the end of each month.

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended:

1.1      To note the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance Monitoring Report.

Resolved

(1)          That the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance Monitoring Report be noted.

The Assistant Director of Finance and Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes, presented a report which summarised the Council’s Performance, Risk and Finance monitoring position as at the end of each month.

In presenting the report the Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes explained how the Risk Management Strategy linked in and worked alongside the Business Plan. The Head of Insight and Corporate Programmes highlighted score changes in the Leadership Risk Register including : L10, Safeguarding the vulnerable, which had increased from 8 to 12 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic  but had now returned back to a score of 8; L17, Separation, had increased and L20, Covid19 Business Continuity, had decreased in June from 20 to 16.

The Applications and Web Team Manager gave a short presentation on Cyber Security.  The Committee was advised of the steps IT had taken to ensure increased home working was as secure as possible, including a two factor authentication used to login remotely. The Committee was advised, that a Cyber Security Officer had recently been appointed. This was a new joint post in the IT Team working across both Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County Council and would enable each authority to be more proactive in Cyber security.

The Applications and Web Team Manager informed the members that an Internal Audit was carried out on Cyber Security earlier in the year and no high risks were identified. An action plan had been developed to respond to the recommendations from the audit.

Resolved

(1)          That the monthly Performance, Risk and Finance Monitoring Report be noted.