Agenda item - Code of Corporate Governance and Risk Management Framework

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Approve the Code of Corporate Governance as included in appendix 1.

2)       Note the current Risk Management Framework as included in appendix 2. Any feedback from the committee will be taken into account when refreshing the Risk Management Framework for approval by Cabinet.

51.1    The committee considered an update to the Council’s Code of Corporate Governance, which forms part of the Council’s constitution and sets out how the council’s governance arrangements work towards meeting the seven principles of good governance, based on the ‘Delivering Good Governance in Local Government Framework 2016’ published by The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA). The report also included the Risk Management Framework.

51.2    Councillors Guilmant, Hewitt, Loughran, and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

51.3    RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Approve the Code of Corporate Governance as included in appendix 1.

2)       Note the current Risk Management Framework as included in appendix 2. Any feedback from the committee will be taken into account when refreshing the Risk Management Framework for approval by Cabinet.