200327 Paper 2 FOISA Review

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper 2 27/03/20

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR DECISION

Title: INTERN­AL AUDIT REVIEW: HAND­LING FREEDOM

             OF INFORMATION REQUESTS

Pre­pared by: CLAIRE ROBERTSON, BDO

	TONY BARRIE, BDO

Pur­pose

To present the intern­al auditor’s review of the Authority’s pro­cesses and con­trols in place for hand­ling requests for inform­a­tion made under the Free­dom of Inform­a­tion (Scot­land) Act 2002 (FOISA).

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to: a) Con­sider the intern­al auditor’s find­ings; b) Endorse man­age­ment responses to recom­men­ded actions.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. In fol­low up to a review of a request for inform­a­tion by the Scot­tish Inform­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er, man­age­ment agreed that Intern­al Audit would review the design and oper­a­tion­al effect­ive­ness of the Authority’s arrange­ments for con­trol and man­age­ment of requests for inform­a­tion made to the Author­ity under the Free­dom of Inform­a­tion (Scot­land) Act (FOISA). The full report is attached as Annex I to this paper.

2. Both the design and oper­a­tion­al effect­ive­ness of the Authority’s pro­cesses are graded as mod­er­ate. One medi­um level and five low level recom­mend­a­tions for improve­ment actions were raised by the intern­al auditors.

3. All recom­mend­a­tions have been accep­ted by man­age­ment. Man­age­ment responses are set out along with timetables for action in Annex 1.

Danie Ral­ph, Fin­ance Man­ager 27 March, 2020 danielralph@​cairngorms.​co.​uk