Legal Ensuring Low Potential Parish Clerk clarifies the Council minutes. Review annually liability activities are 1 reputational and legal position on any new Standing orders and and Council to within legal financial risk. proposal put before the financial regulations minute this powers Council. Legal advice to be document. (irrespective of any taken when necessary. changes made). Standing orders and financial regulations up to date and fully complied with. Legal Accurate and Medium Inappropriate or Full council meets regularly Council minutes Minutes of Council liability timely no actions and receives and approves (hard copy and via and committees to reporting via 3 undertaken. minutes of meetings. the web) be uploaded onto the minutes Reputational Minutes made available to website once risk. public via the Council approved draft Non website. available if with the requested. Freedom of Information Act Legal Proper Medium Loss of key Any key legal documents Schedule of any Review levels of liability document data. kept in locked cabinet at documents documents’ control 2 Confidential Clerks home. Computer contained in locked kept to a minimum data backed up regularly using on cabinet. compromised. site and off site back up facilities.
Legal liability Ensuring activities are within legal powers Low 1 Potential reputational and financial risk. Parish Clerk clarifies the legal position on any new proposal put before the Council. Legal advice to be taken when necessary. Standing orders and financial regulations up to date and fully complied with. Council minutes. Standing orders and financial regulations document. Review annually and Council to minute this (irrespective of any changes made). Legal liability Accurate and timely reporting via the minutes Medium 3 Inappropriate or no actions undertaken. Reputational risk. Non with the Freedom of Information Act Full council meets regularly and receives and approves minutes of meetings. Minutes made available to public via the Council website. Council minutes (hard copy and via the web) Minutes of Council and committees to be uploaded onto website once approved draft available if requested. Legal liability Proper document control Medium 2 Loss of key data. Confidential data compromised. Any key legal documents kept in locked cabinet at Clerks home. Computer backed up regularly using on site and off site back up facilities. Schedule of any documents contained in locked cabinet. Review levels of documents’ kept to a minimum
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