Our approach to managing risk

Our budgetary, business continuity and risk management processes are well embedded at team and service level and with system partners. We have improved how we manage these across the services over the past two years, enabling us to identify a number of high-risk areas particularly in our support services. We have a robust structure enabling the whole management team sight of our risk register, and a Directorate Risk Management group reviews and enables analysis and problem solving.  Our key corporate risks and mitigating actions are outlined in our scorecard see Appendix 2.2. Alongside this there are weekly leadership team (DASS, Directors and DPH) to support developing responses to emerging risks and issues.

The LGA Peer challenge (Sept 2023) said that:

“GCC has implemented sound strategic risk management practices. There have been instances when mitigating actions were agreed upon and implemented successfully. Examples cited were workforce initiatives targeted on roles/areas with high vacancies and commissioning framework changes aiming to address insufficiency. These lead to tangible improvements in areas like market sustainability and workforce sufficiency”.