How Two Leading Councils Are Scaling Supplier Assurance

LIVE WEBINAR: Wednesday 16 September 2026 | 12:00 PM (BST)

With increasing pressure on public sector resources, councils need smarter, more sustainable ways to manage third-party cyber risk. Join security leaders from Staffordshire County Council and Xentrall Shared Services as they discuss how they're evolving supplier assurance, embedding security into procurement, and building scalable processes that improve visibility across their supplier ecosystem - without placing additional strain on already stretched teams.

What We'll Discuss

The biggest supplier assurance challenges facing local government today.

Building a scalable, risk-based supplier assurance programme / preparing for audits.

Balancing internal expertise with external support and tooling.

Lessons learned on improving collaboration between cyber security, procurement and contract teams / managing ongoing assurance throughout the contract lifecycle.

How Two Leading Councils Are Scaling Supplier Assurance

Meet your speakers

Stuart Fletcher

Cyber Security and Compliance Manager

Staffordshire County Council

Tracy Armstrong

ICT Security and Assurance Officer,

Xentrall Shared Services ICT

What We'll Discuss

The biggest supplier assurance challenges facing local government today.

Building a scalable, risk-based supplier assurance programme / preparing for audits.

Balancing internal expertise with external support and tooling.

Lessons learned on improving collaboration between cyber security, procurement and contract teams / managing ongoing assurance throughout the contract lifecycle.

Building resilience through stronger governance, organisational guardrails and improved incident readiness.