190607FinanceCtteePaper3

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Fin­ance & Deliv­ery Com­mit­tee Paper 3 07/06/19

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY FIN­ANCE & DELIV­ERY COMMITTEE

FOR DIS­CUS­SION

Title: FIN­AN­CIAL REG­U­LA­TIONS AND TRAINING

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SERVICES

Pur­pose

This paper invites Com­mit­tee mem­bers to con­sider any train­ing require­ments they may have to sup­port their mem­ber­ship of the Com­mit­tee over the com­ing years.

The paper presents the cur­rent Fin­an­cial Reg­u­la­tions for the Author­ity, to provide con­text around the Authority’s fin­an­cial oper­a­tions and to assist with con­sid­er­a­tion of poten­tial train­ing requirements.

Recom­mend­a­tion

The Fin­ance & Deliv­ery Com­mit­tee is reques­ted to agree any future train­ing and inform­a­tion requirements.

Inform­a­tion

1. Com­mit­tee mem­bers were invited fol­low­ing the Feb­ru­ary meet­ing to con­tact the Com­mit­tee Chair to dis­cuss any train­ing require­ments that they feel they would bene­fit from, either indi­vidu­ally, or as train­ing ses­sions and dis­cus­sion items for the entire Com­mit­tee. This paper seeks to fol­low up that con­sid­er­a­tion to allow mem­bers to final­ise any train­ing requirements.
2. Mem­bers con­sidered the terms of ref­er­ence for the Committee’s oper­a­tions at the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, to help estab­lish the focus for the Committee’s work and to provide back­ground to con­sid­er­a­tion of any train­ing require­ments. These terms of ref­er­ence can be accessed at: https://cairngorms.co.uk/resource/docs/boardpapers/22022019/190222FinanceCtteePaper|Annex|RevisedAgreedCommitteesToR071218.pdf
3. As fur­ther con­text to the Authority’s fin­an­cial oper­a­tions, our Fin­an­cial Reg­u­la­tions are provided at Annex One to this paper. Present­a­tion of the Fin­an­cial Reg­u­la­tions help high­light to mem­bers the under­pin­ning pro­cesses and con­trols estab­lished to sup­port the Authority’s fin­an­cial man­age­ment. There­fore, con­sid­er­a­tion of this doc­u­ment is in itself a step for mem­bers in train­ing around our sys­tems and man­age­ment controls.
4. The con­text set by the Fin­an­cial Reg­u­la­tions, togeth­er with pre­vi­ous con­sid­er­a­tion of the Committee’s Terms of Ref­er­ence, may also assist mem­bers in identi­fy­ing aspects of the Authority’s fin­an­cial man­age­ment where fur­ther train­ing may be beneficial.

Dav­id Camer­on 30 May 2019 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk