Scout SuiteHow-to guide
Risk register
This is organisational risk (the minibus becoming unroadworthy, not what could go wrong on one trip), scored before your current controls and again after, so a trustees' meeting can see exactly what those controls are actually worth.
Watch this on its own pageIt's organisational risk, not activity risk
The Risk Register covers top-level risks to the organisation: financial, legal, governance and external, distinct from an activity risk assessment, which is about what could go wrong on one specific trip or session.
Give it a real owner
Risk owner is a picker, not free text: choose from your adult volunteers, or from general contacts (a trustee who doesn't have a Scout Suite login, for instance). Can't find them? + Add new contact creates one inline without leaving the form.
Score before controls, then after
Set the pre-control impact and likelihood, add what's already in place as Current controls, then set the post-control score once those controls are accounted for. Scout Suite calculates both scores for you.
Review and export for the meeting
A colour-coded band shows at a glance what needs attention. Reviewing it takes one click, and the whole register exports as a PDF ready for a trustees' meeting.
The register sits alongside the trustee report and declarations of interest: see Trustees and governance.
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