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ALARM 2004 Accounts

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June 2005

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ALARM Business Plan 2007-2009

This Business Plan contains a narrative, which restates ALARM’s vision and strategic objectives, outlines its management structure, reviews the objectives set for 2006, and describes the planning process both in the current year, and from 2007 onwards. 

ALARM Annual Report 2005

The Annual Report is to be read in conjunction with the Statement of Accounts for 2005, which together form a summary of the activities undertaken by the Board of Directors last year in delivering our key objectives and seeking to maintain our position as the primary voice for public service risk management

in the UK.

Minutes of ALARM AGM 2006

ALARM Annual Report 2006

2006 was a successful year for ALARM, reinforcing its position at the forefront of public service risk management. Read how we performed against our key objectives

Articles and Memorandum of Association of ALARM

A Guide to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

Roy Woollard of Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has created a ‘one persons guide’ to the current state of Local Government Reform, with particular reference to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act. 

Gallagher Bassett Focus Newsletter

The Gallagher Bassett quarterly risk management newsletter

Travelers Legal Bulletin

Claims Legal Bulletin gives regular reviews of legal developments in the world of property and casualty insurance claims.

Benchmarking Risk Management

This report reviews the current maturity of risk management in the public services.

Absence Management Workshop Report

This report shows the absence management issues facing public services toda, potential solutions and examples of best practice

The Possibilities for Risk Management

This article shows how the Risk Management team at the Met Police used innovative models, including Bow Ties and Butterflies to embed risk management in the organisation.

Healthcare Extension Decision Tree

This healthcare extension decision tree is a guide to treatmentswhich St Paul Travelers is prepared to consider as an extension to normal public liability cover.

Managing the Risk of Fraud: The ALARM Standard for Risk Advisors

The purpose of this paper is to direct the role of the risk advisor, working in conjunction with business managers, to ensure that adequate arrangements are in place to manager the risk of fraud well in advance of any occurrence. This standard will provide best practice on the key aspects of this and will enable organisations to test that they are reaching adequate levels of compliance in relation to the management of the risk of fraud.

Risk Management: Making a Difference

This report considers that contemporary environment in which public sector organisations must manage risk. In particular, it focuses on the diverse ways in which risk management can enhance the performance of public service organisations and presents, in a series of case studies, success stories selected from participants at the Risk Management: Making a Difference workshops which were run jointly by ALARM and the Audit Commission in 2005

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Guidance on Corporate Manslaughter

Following the issue in November 2005 of guidance on Alternative Risk Financing (ARF), we have now published the next research document to be provided under our contract with the Cullen Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University, providing guidance on the subject of Corporate Manslaughter. The document is being issued to all of our members in response to widespread concern that the current law was not delivering justice, giving rise to the publication by the Government in March 2005 of a draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill for England and Wales. 

Alternative Risk Financing

Following the widespread expressions of concern from ALARM members about the current state of the insurance market for the public sector, not only in terms of the lack of choice in the selection of insurers and underwriters, but also with regard to programme design, premier rates and eductible levels. This is  a comprehensive guide on the various alternative risk financing options available to our members.

Business Continuity Management & the Civil Contingencies Act – A Short Guide

The impact of a disruption to services in the public sector is a risk that many have identified at a strategic level and figures largely in Risk Registers. The recent bombings in London have highlighted the fact that the need for plans to deal with disruptions is more paramount now than they have been for a decade. This is re-enforced by the Civil Contingencies Act which now imposes a statutory duty for organisations to be resilient. But it is not only bombs that can disrupt, how about a flu epidemic, crime scene or even that lottery win. Business/Service Continuity is just that - about continuing to provide key services despite interruptions of whatever nature. ALARM in partnership with Insight Consulting has produced this document, having recognised the need to provide clear help and guidance in this area to enable you to fulfil your Service and statutory obligations.

A Guide to Managing Personal Safety Risks at Work

This document started its life dealing solely with the risks associated with one working. Its scope widened along the way and we are pleased to present you with the end result: a comprehensive guidance document to managing personal safety risks at work.  We hope that this document will prove useful to our members and to all other organisations and individuals who are involved in the management of personal safety risks.

Best Value

A consideration as to how Government’s proposed legislatory changes regarding Best Value may impact on risk management.

The purpose of this document is to give consideration as to how the Government’s proposed legislatory changes regarding Best Value may impact on the Risk Management processes used by local authorities.

Corporate Governance

It is now recognised that risk management is an essential part of securing the “health” of an organisation and it rightly takes its place in the corporate governance arena. This publication is designed to help senior managers, elected

Members, non-elected board members or non-executive directors in the UK public sector to develop a sound approach to risk management as part of their overall arrangements for corporate governance within their organisations.

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Shorten the Odds

Produced by the Commission in conjunction with Glasgow Caledonian University and ALARM Scotland.  The document provides a very useful and practical guide to risk management.

Human Rights Act Guidance Paper

The purpose of this document is to provide you with a practical guide to the implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 which has been incorporated into English law on 2nd October 2000.  It is one of the most significant pieces of legislation to be enacted in this country as it incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and will therefore have a profound effect on the decision-making of all public bodies.  Our employers are the primary decision-makers in a range of fields in which the Act confers important new rights on individuals and all of us who work in the Public Sector will therefore be faced with new and challenging responsibilities. The Act applies to all public authorities and this includes local authorities, government departments, police and fire authorities, the courts themselves.  NHS Trusts, the armed forces and many other public bodies which carry out functions of a public nature.   It is not just individual services which need to consider the human rights aspects of their work. The whole of the organisation, including the corporate and strategic centre, need to be compliant with the Act and decisions made at all levels and all policy and procedural documents have to be formulated with an eye on the rights afforded to the public with whom we deal in our day to day work.

Managing the Risk of Fraud

The CIPFA Better Governance Forum has published a guidance document on ‘Managing the Risk of Fraud: Actions to Counter Fraud and Corruption’. 

This guidance document complements the work currently being undertaking by the ALARM Fraud SIG, which will be publishing a ‘Standard for Managing the Risk of Fraud’, endorsed by the Audit Commission, towards the end of this year.

Absence Management and Workplace Rehabilitation

Guidance document on the nature and scope of the problem and potential solutions.

ALARM

November 2006

The Risk Management Standard is the result of work by a team drawn from the major risk management organisations in the UK – The Institute of Risk Management (IRM), The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC) and ALARM (The National Forum for Risk Management in the Public Sector.

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Debris Removal

Article on the importance of allowing for the cost of Asbestos disposal when calculating your buildings sum insured.