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Title: Society for Risk Analysis Meeting 58 December 2004 Improving Government Risk Management and Appraisa


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Society for Risk Analysis Meeting5-8 December
2004Improving Government Risk Management and
Appraisal of Risk to the PublicBrian Glicksman
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Outline of Presentation
  • Context
  • The Risk Programme
  • Key issues and Actions
  • Managing risks to the public
  • Appraisal of risks assessing risk perceptions
  • The future

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Context for Government risk management
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We are taking on more risk - focus is on delivery
  • Aiming high targets focus us on outcomes
  • Achieving outcomes is complex and hard-work
  • Will only happen if risks that can knock us off
    course are anticipated, and managed well

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Project failures
  • Departments continue to suffer, particularly in
  • New complex IT systems
  • Traditional procurement programmes

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We face new threats...
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Pace of change brings both opportunity and
uncertainty...
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Connections increase exposure...
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And risk matters more to people...
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Public more aware want more say in risk matters
  • Better educated aware
  • Demand high standards and actions to address
    concerns
  • Demand more openness and clear evidence
  • Demand more influence and choice
  • Prepared to litigate

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Trust is an issue
Trust in individuals and institutions, 2003
Family Doctors, Teachers, Local Police
Low trust means less support for innovation and
change more demand for regulation
Greenpeace/ Amnesty
Senior Civil Servants
Politicians
Business Leaders
Real Estate Agents/ Red-top journalists
Source Market Opinion Research International
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So change needed
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Risk Programme -improving government capability
  • 2 yr programme of change
  • Civil Service Management Board Group
  • Cross-government networks
  • Learning from public/private sectors
  • Treasury Chief Secretary Reports to Prime Minister

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What is our Aim?
Capabilities
  • Embedded risk management - skills, guidance,
    structures, incentives, culture
  • Effective - anticipation, decision-making,
    preparedness, crisis handling, communications,
    coordination fewer adverse reports from
    auditors/politicians
  • Policies, targets, projects are being delivered
    public safety, confidence, trust are being
    achieved

Risk Handling
Better outcomes
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Innovation and well-managed risk taking
New endeavours/ stretching targets
Operational risk
External threats
Self imposed risk
Current performance
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Key Challenges
  • Leadership
  • Embedding in business processes
  • Risk in policy making
  • Managing risks with partners
  • Managing risks to the public
  • Learning from good practice

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Managing risk to the public
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Building public trust and understanding
  • Principles
  • Openness transparency
  • Involvement
  • Proportionality and consistency
  • Evidence for policies, actions, decisions
  • Responsibility and choice
  • Use of arms length bodies
  • Early and regular communication

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Implementing the principles
  • Involving Government networks
  • Communications information directors
  • Decision making - policy makers
  • Evidence scientists economists and other
    analysts
  • Wider engagement academics, stakeholders
  • Guidance
  • Supplement to HMT guidance on investment
    appraisal
  • A tool for structured assessment of public
    concerns
  • Communicating Risk to the Public

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Proportionality and consistency
  • Guidance on appraisal of risks to the public
  • Current consultation on this new guidance
  • Guidance includes
  • benchmark for Government spending to prevent a
    fatality (1m 1.5m from road transport
    willingness to pay (WTP) studies) and to
    reduce harm of 20-30k per Quality Adjusted Life
    Year (QALY)
  • Consideration for public and expert risk
    perceptions
  • Assessment tool for public concerns

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Consultation on concerns
  • Proactive, two-way communication
  • Consultation to capture structured, informed and
    considered views
  • Challenge and varied perspectives valued in
    building the evidence base
  • Not from a self-selected source
  • Not groupthink
  • Not media judgements

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Assessment Framework
  • Categories of concern
  • Hazard familiarity understanding
  • Effects equity dread
  • Management control trust
  • Levels of concern
  • 1-5 to indicate increasing degree of concern

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Concern assessment framework
Eg Effects Fear (Dread)
 
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Decisions on managing risks to the public
CBA, including
Societal Concerns
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Future culture change
  • Everyone is a risk manager
  • Knows the risks faced, how to manage them, and
    how this links to achieving the organisations
    objectives
  • Looks for opportunity
  • Clear on risk appetite
  • Knows when to escalate risk
  • More risk-based service provision
  • Clear objectives with
  • Resources targeted at risks
  • Risks to public managed effectively
  • Proportionate action
  • Taking account of public perceptions
  • Communicating effectively

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For further information .

www.risk-support.gov.uk email to
risk-support_at_hm-treasury.gov.uk
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