Public Board of Directors papers 27.01.22

direct access to BoD members. • We have developed our Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) action plan to address feedback from BAME colleagues about how they have been treated in recruitment, promotion, disciplinary and grievance situations. This is overseen by the EDI programme board and workforce committee Board of Directors oversight • The previous historical reports (from 2012 and 2018) referred to in the “Rapid Review” report of January 2022 were considered in full by the board of directors at its meeting of 25th March 2021 where it was concluded that the action plan and further activities superseded these reports

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Board of Directors oversight • That either the full Board or a limited-life sub-committee, with a majority of non- executive directors reviews the reports that have been received about R&I including ’External Performance Review of the Systems and Processes in the R&D Division’ from 2012; the Wendy Fisher report; the report of the Non- Executive Director into the ’Concerns in the R&I Division’ raised with the FTSUG; internal audit reports; ’Independent Assessment of the Progression of Real-World Evidence/Big Data Partnership Opportunities at the Christie 2018- 2020’, (Professor Andrew Hughes) December 2020; Review of the Clinical Research Facility, Professor Jaclyn Smith, December 2020; and the responses to these to assure themselves that full attention has been paid to them and that learning has been acted upon. The Board should review its structures for the escalation of issues and scoring of risks. It would be helpful for this to be facilitated and overseen by the Audit Committee.

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Risk escalation and scoring - overall • Our overall approach to the identification, evaluation and management of risk is set out in our Risk Management Strategy and Policy (2021-2024). • The updated Risk Management Strategy and Policy, which addresses the recommendations of an audit of our previous policy reported to the Audit Committee, was approved by the Management Board in November 2021 and is scheduled for approval by the Board of Directors on 27th January 2022. Risk escalation and scoring - raising concerns • Our FTSU policy contains a flow chart and procedure for identifying the nature of concerns and appropriate escalation process • A review of the handling of the concerns raised in February 2020 and August 2020 was undertaken by the NEDs involved with the FTSUG and reported to the board of directors in October 2020.

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