CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper | 11/09/20

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: INTERN­AL AUDIT REVIEW: LEAD­ER ADMIN­IS­TRA­TION REVIEW

Pre­pared by: CHRIS BROWN, STEPHANIE HUME, SCOTT MONCRIEF

Pur­pose

To present the intern­al auditor’s review of the Authority’s LEAD­ER Admin­is­tra­tion and Account­able Body con­trols, and through that our com­pli­ance with the Ser­vice Level Agree­ment (SLA) estab­lished with Scot­tish Government.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Con­sider the intern­al auditor’s findings.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. As part of the 2020 – 21 Intern­al Audit plan, it was agreed that Intern­al Audit would assess the pro­cesses in place to ensure com­pli­ance with the require­ments of the Ser­vice Level Agree­ment (SLA) for the Lead­er Pro­gramme. The full report of the review is attached at Annex I to this paper.

2. No recom­mend­a­tions for improve­ment actions were raised by the intern­al auditors.

3. Both design and oper­a­tion­al effect­ive­ness of the Authority’s con­trols as the Account­able Body for Cairngorms LEAD­ER Pro­gramme are con­sidered to have appro­pri­ate con­trols in place and oper­at­ing to achieve the con­trol objectives.

Dav­id Camer­on, Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices 1 Septem­ber 2020 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk