Session 4B (risk) - Demonstrating effective risk management as part of the local authority Best Value Duty

2pm – 2.45pm BST, 3 October 2024 ‐ 45 mins

Session

Mark will look at the contribution that effective risk management is expected to make to meeting that duty as a key characteristic of a well-functioning authority. As well as what are viewed as indicators of potential failures in governance and risk management arrangements, according to the statutory guidance released in May 2024. The interactive discussion will focus on how risk managers can demonstrate effective risk management practices are in place, to provide adequate assurance to relevant stakeholders in an increasingly challenging environment that has seen several local authorities issued with best value interventions in the past few years.

While the session is focused on local authority setting, the risk management themes raised will be relevant to all public sector bodies.

Speakers

Mark Scrivener

Head of Risk & Delivery Assurance, Kent County Council

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Mark Scrivener

Head of Risk & Delivery Assurance, Kent County Council

Mark heads up the Integrated Risk & Delivery Assurance Team at Kent County Council that develops and implements the risk management framework across the Council. He has over ten years’ experience in strategic risk management and has previously held several business planning, business information and performance management related roles. He has been a member of ALARM for ten years and joined the ALARM South East Committee in September 2023. He is a certified member of the Institute of Risk Management, as well as a Management of Risk and Better Business Cases Practitioner.