Governance, Assurance & Documentation

Overview

Governance, Assurance & Documentation support helps organisations bring clarity and structure to how preparedness, resilience and continuity arrangements are overseen and evidenced.

The focus is on ensuring governance and assurance arrangements are clear, proportionate and usable, giving leaders confidence in how risks are managed, plans are maintained and learning is acted upon. This underpins all Horizon services and is often delivered alongside areas such as Business Continuity Support and Testing and Exercising, helping ensure arrangements are clear, joined-up and easy to evidence.

When This is Useful

This service is particularly helpful if your organisation:

• Has preparedness, resilience or continuity documentation that feels unclear or fragmented

• Needs clearer oversight or assurance for leaders, boards or senior managers

• Is preparing for inspection, audit or external scrutiny

• Struggles to evidence learning from incidents, exercises or reviews

• Has unclear ownership or review arrangements for plans and actions

• Wants to strengthen assurance without adding unnecessary governance burden

It is also well suited to organisations who want governance arrangements that support operational delivery, rather than sit alongside it.

What’s Involved

Support is tailored to your organisation and proportionate to your size, risk profile and operational context. The scope and depth of work are agreed in advance and may include:

• Review of existing governance and assurance arrangements
  Understanding what is already in place, how it operates, and where clarity or alignment could be improved.

• Review and alignment of preparedness and resilience documentation
  Helping plans, logs, trackers and supporting documents tell a clear, joined-up story.

• Clarification of ownership, oversight and review cycles
  Defining who is responsible for maintaining plans, reviewing assurance and tracking actions.

• Strengthening assurance and evidence of learning
  Supporting clear recording and follow-up of actions arising from incidents, exercises or reviews.

• Proportionate documentation and assurance tools
  Developing or refining simple trackers, summaries or templates where helpful, without creating unnecessary paperwork.