CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper 2 27/11/2020

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR DIS­CUS­SION

Title: BUSI­NESS CON­TINU­ITY RISK MANAGEMENT

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SER­VICES VICKY WALK­ER, OFFICE SER­VICES MANAGER

Pur­pose

This paper presents an update of the Authority’s risk man­age­ment activ­it­ies dur­ing the busi­ness con­tinu­ity response to the COVID19 pan­dem­ic, with­in the con­text of the Authority’s approach to stra­tegic risk management.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Note the update on the Authority’s risk man­age­ment on our COVID19 busi­ness con­tinu­ity responses as set out in this paper; b) Review the cov­er­age of the risk register estab­lished in sup­port of the Authority’s Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity Plan­ning and Man­age­ment; c) Con­sider the con­tin­ued appro­pri­ate­ness of the approach to and focus of risk man­age­ment while in the cur­rent BCP led oper­a­tion­al circumstances.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity has a well-estab­lished and embed­ded approach to stra­tegic risk man­age­ment. Our updated stra­tegic risk register is con­sidered else­where on the Committee’s cur­rent agenda.

2. Dur­ing the cur­rent response to the COVID19 pan­dem­ic, the Author­ity con­tin­ues to pur­sue deliv­ery of the estab­lished pri­or­it­ies of its Cor­por­ate Plan for 2018 to 2022. Through that, the Author­ity con­tin­ues to con­trib­ute to achieve­ment of the aims of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (CNPPP) for 2017 to 2022 and to coordin­ate work with vari­ous part­ners in deliv­ery of the CNPPP pri­or­it­ies. The Author­ity there­fore con­tin­ues to plan around deliv­ery of its exist­ing stra­tegic object­ives as agreed by the Board and Scot­tish Min­is­ters and set out in our Cor­por­ate Plan for 2018 to 2022. As such, our exist­ing stra­tegic risk register remains a val­id over­view of the stra­tegic risks which may impact our suc­cess­ful deliv­ery of these objectives.

3. The cur­rent COVID19 responses and restric­tions to our pre­vi­ous mode of oper­a­tions have a wide range of impacts on our oper­a­tions as an organ­isa­tion and on our exist­ing resource deploy­ment plans. For the peri­od of our Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity Plan (BCP) response to date in respond­ing to the COVID19 pan­dem­ic, we have taken a decision to estab­lish a spe­cif­ic risk register to map out the vari­ous risks faced in our con­tin­ued deliv­ery of our Cor­por­ate Plan object­ives. Where appro­pri­ate, we have estab­lished pre­vent­at­ive and remedi­al meas­ures to act on those risks and hence min­im­ise their like­li­hood and impact respect­ively. The cur­rent BCP risk register is set out at Annex I to this paper.

4. The BCP Man­age­ment Risk Register is inten­ded to sup­port the man­age­ment of the over­all stra­tegic risk register through estab­lish­ing a focused risk man­age­ment envir­on­ment for the Authority’s oper­a­tions while we respond and adapt to the COVID19 emer­gency. It is neither a replace­ment nor a refresh of the stra­tegic risk register — rather, it estab­lishes an inter­im risk man­age­ment approach to a sud­den and focused risk escal­a­tion across a range of our exist­ing stra­tegic risks and envir­on­ment. Many of the risks set out in this BCP Risk Register are exten­sions of the exist­ing stra­tegic risks.

5. The Com­mit­tee is invited to review the cov­er­age of the BCP Risk Register set out in Annex I to this paper and also to con­sider the con­tin­ued appro­pri­ate­ness of this approach to and focus of risk man­age­ment while in the cur­rent BCP led oper­a­tion­al circumstances.

Dav­id Camer­on 19 Novem­ber 2020 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk