Rutland County Council Failure to manage the process of information/news release, resulting in adverse publicity within the local and national press

Rutland County Council Failure to manage the process of information/news release, resulting in adverse publicity within the local and national press

Risk Ref AMBER 5

Impact Critical 

Likelihood Helen Briggs

Risk Owner Helen Briggs 

Risk Manager Chris Jones

Medium


Risk Name: Media Influence

Risk Description: Failure to manage the process of information/news release, resulting in adverse publicity within the local and national
press

Risk Controls:
• Communications Officer is first point of contact, he has built up a good relationship with the press
• Communications Strategy includes a policy on dealing with enquiries from the press
• Use of press releases to put information across in the format we want.
Actions:
• No further action required at this time