Specimen Training Courses
The following courses are typical of those that we can supply. All our courses can be tailored to an authority's requirements and are delivered on-site at an authority's offices or training centre.
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Course Title |
Description |
Content |
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One Day Courses |
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Introduction to Governance and Risk Management in a Local Authority
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A course for officers with specific responsibility for corporate governance and risk management within an authority
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- Statutory requirements
- Risk standards
- Professional pronouncements
- Overview of risk management and profiling methodologies currently used within local authorities
- Risk profiling
- Reporting to senior managers and members
- Facilitation skills and workshop facilitation
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Practical Aspects of Risk Profiling |
A course for officers who have strategic or operational risk management and/or
risk profiling and evaluation responsibilities within directorates, departments,
services or functions. |
- Overview of responsibilities
- Review of the methodology adopted by the authority
- Risk profiling
- Categorisation of risks
- Identifying risks
- Determining consequences
- Evaluating likelihood/probability and impact/consequences
- Risk mitigation
- Identifying mitigating actions/controls
- Testing and evaluating the mitigating action/control environment
- Reporting on the risk environment
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Five day courses |
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Introduction to Risk Management in a Local Authority
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A course for officers who are new to the risk management environment environment
or desire to enhance their skills and knowledge or risk management Statutory
background and development |
- The nature of risk
- Risk management standards
- Professional pronouncements
- The role and responsibilities of a risk manager and the risk manager function
- Risk/audit committees
- Risk profiling
- Reporting to senior managers and members
- Facilitation skills and workshop facilitation
- Risk profiling workshop
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Introduction to Internal Auditing in a Local Authority |
A course for officers who are new to the internal audit environment or desire to
enhance their skills and knowledge of risk based auditing |
- Statutory requirements
- Professional pronouncements
- Risk and audit planning
- Documenting and recording an audit
- Risk identification and analysis
- Internal control
- Behavioural aspects and interviewing techniques
- Testing and evaluating the control environment
- Audit reporting
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