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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 2 Annex 2 11^th June 2021

KPI Report­ing

Indic­at­or	Tar­get	Update	Rat­ing
Con­ser­va­tion and Land Use
Area of new nat­ive woodland	1000 ha pa	The rate of affor­est­a­tion across the last four years, achieved through a mix­ture of nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion and plant­ing, has on aver­age exceeded the tar­get rate of 1000 ha per year. Early indic­a­tions, based on draft wood­land cre­ation pro­pos­als on vari­ous estates across the CNP, sug­gests a tar­get of 1000 ha/​yr will be eas­ily achieved (pos­sibly twice over) across the next five year period.	Green
Area of peat­land restoration	1000 ha pa	Fol­low­ing delays due to Cov­id-19, six leg­acy pro­jects car­ried for­ward from 2019 star­ted in the late sum­mer of 2020 with two of these com­plet­ing by March 2021. We were unable to attract any suit­able con­tract­ors for oth­er leg­acy pro­jects or for new pro­jects, and there remains a sig­ni­fic­ant lack of con­tract­ors. Actu­al res­tor­a­tion man­age­ment totalled only a 131 hec­tares in 2020⁄21 against a tar­get of 1170 hec­tares. Since 2018 a total of 2172 hec­tares have been restored. Dis­cus­sions with Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment res­ul­ted in agree­ment for a three year cap­it­al fund­ing pack­age of £8.45m to deliv­er approx­im­ately 3,500 hec­tares of peat­land res­tor­a­tion. An expan­sion of the Peat­land ACTION team in the CNPA is under­way with a new Pro­gramme Man­ager and Pro­ject Officer in post. Recruit­ment for anoth­er Pro­ject Officer and a Peat­land GIS/​Data Officer has star­ted. A pro­gramme of works, cov­er­ing nearly 550 hec­tares is planned this year as well as final­ising the neces­sary admin­is­tra­tion to run­ning our own peat­land programme.	Red
Deer dens­ity across Deer Man­age­ment Groups	Reduc­tions towards 10 per km² or less	Report on deer num­bers and hab­it­at impacts across CNP with Strath Caulaidh Ltd delivered, dis­cussed at CNPA Board and pub­lished. Indic­ates that aver­age deer dens­it­ies across the Park are around II deer/​km2 (a sig­ni­fic­ant reduc­tion over the last 20 years) but with major vari­ations from 4 to over 20/​km2. Highest dens­it­ies are in the south of the Park Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing agreed with SDNA DMG, WGDMG and SGDMG as part of HH bid towards devel­op­ment of Stra­tegic Land Man­age­ment Plan (includ­ing deer). WGDMG have estab­lished a Steer­ing Group with inde­pend­ent chair­man and con­sult­ant to begin devel­op­ment pro­cess. Await­ing pos­sible policy devel­op­ment arising from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment response to Deer Work­ing Group report	Amber
Num­ber of Capercaillie	1200 by 2022	Tar­get will not be met. Full nation­al sur­vey res­ults due in 2022 but lek counts sug­gest pop­u­la­tion has declined ser­i­ously from the 1100 birds estim­ated 2015⁄16	Red
Num­bers of wild­life crime incid­ents in the Park	Zero per annum	Wild­life crime con­tin­ues to be a ser­i­ous prob­lem in the Park. CNPA con­tin­ues to work with Police Scot­land and oth­er part­ners to deal with this per­sist­ent issue. Plan to put sat tags (which identi­fy pre­cise loc­a­tion of mor­tal­ity) on 3 eagle chicks, Sum­mer 2021. Oth­er rap­tor work ongo­ing eg improved mon­it­or­ing, con­ser­va­tion pro­jects and ways of ​‘shift­ing the cul­ture’ around rap­tors in parts of the Park.	Red
Vis­it­or Experience
Length of path upgraded or extended	20km upgraded by 2022	51.8 km of path upgraded by Moun­tains & People pro­ject (ended Jan 2021)	Achieved
	6km new path by 2022	6.5 km of new path con­struc­ted along Spey­side Way Exten­sion & Sev­en Bridges path Bal­later. Fur­ther improve­ments to the route at Grant­own, Kin­craig & Tromie being developed in 2021.
Tour­ism Impact	Increase eco­nom­ic impact of vis­it­ors to east­ern and south­ern CNP from 21% to 25% of total vis­it­or eco­nomy by 2022	STEAM data for 2019 indic­ates that eco­nom­ic impact of vis­it­ors to east­ern and south­ern CNP to be 21.6% of the total vis­it­or eco­nomy. This is slightly above the baseline fig­ure but a decline on 2017 (22.8%) and 2018 (21.9%) STEAM data for 2020 still being evaluated	Red
Com­ple­tions of John Muir Awards	2500 awards per annum and ensure at least 20% from dis­ad­vant­aged backgrounds	Some 2684 people com­pleted a John Muir Award in and around Cairngorms in 2019. JMA cur­rently on hold as we come out of Cov­id-19 lock­down. In 2020 a total of 972 John Muir Awards were com­pleted, con­sid­er­ably down on nor­mal due to Cov­id-19 restrictions.	Amber
Num­ber of Volun­teer Rangers	Min­im­um 8 volun­teer rangers trained per annum	Pro­ject has trained 38 Volun­teer rangers but cur­rently on hold until late August 2021 as we come out of Cov­id-19 lockdown.	Green
5 yr Vis­it­or Sur­vey 2020	Increase Social Grade ​‘C2, D, E’ vis­it­ors from 18 to 20%	Full sur­vey data indic­ates 27% C2, D & E with 97% response rate sig­ni­fic­antly high­er than 2015 18% with 94% response rate	Green
Rur­al Development
Num­ber of afford­able houses delivered as a pro­por­tion of total houses delivered per annum	200 new afford­able houses by 2022	The CNPA has gran­ted con­sent (includ­ing con­sent by appeal) for 578 afford­able homes since 31st March 2018. 375 afford­able units are part of the plan­ning per­mis­sion in prin­ciple issued for An Camus Mor. Of the 203 oth­er afford­able homes giv­en con­sent, 34 are com­pleted and 54 are in con­struc­tion. A fur­ther 22 afford­able units have been com­pleted on con­sents issued before 31 March 2018, mean­ing that 56 afford­able homes have been completed.	Green
Num­ber of people involved in com­munity activ­ity for the first time through LEAD­ER support	By end of Pro­gramme = 80	LEAD­ER Pro­gramme Mon­it­or­ing and Eval­u­ation cur­rently report­ing 237 people have become involved in com­munity pro­jects for the first time through the programme’s interventions.	Achieved
Cor­por­ate Services
Busi­ness sat­is­fac­tion with CNPA	Main­tain or increase from 17⁄18 aver­age (5.44 out of 10)	CNPA was assessed by busi­nesses at 5.5 out of 10 which is above the aver­age score for all organ­isa­tions (5.28) and above the KPI tar­get fig­ure. CNPA is also the highest rated pub­lic body (ongo­ing aver­age) of all those lis­ted in the Baro­met­er. (Source: most recently repor­ted quarter (Q1, 2021) of Cairngorms Busi­ness Baro­met­er, research under­taken by STR)	Green
Staff Turnover	Staff Turnover level not more than 10%	Exclud­ing sea­son­al rangers, staff turnover is 5% (4 leav­ers, head­count of 76) July 2020 — March 2021: — total staff turnover is 10% (9 leav­ers in the 9 months, staff head­count of 83 at 31/03/20). Please note that these stats include the sea­son­al rangers.	Green
Recruit­ment	Suc­cess­ful recruit­ment to all vacant posts	July 2020 — March 2021. All posts suc­cess­fully recruited	Green
Staff Absence	Staff absence levels below 5 days per per­son per year and no more than 3 absences in a 12 month period	July — Sept 20: — absence of 0.45 days/​person, of which sick­ness absence is 0.34 days Oct – Dec 20: — absence of 0.33 days/​person of which sick­ness absence is 0.26 days Jan – March 21: — absence of 0.95 days/​person of which sick­ness absence is 0.95 days	Green
Causes of absence	NO work related causes of absence	July 2020 – March 2021: ‑no work related causes of absence	Green
Case load	Max­im­um 2 incid­ences of form­al HR case­load in a rolling 12 month period	July 2020 — March 2021: no form­al caseload.	Green
Com­plaints	100% of com­plaints on log respon­ded to with­in good prac­tice time frames.	June 2020 – March 2021: — 7 com­plaints. 6 escal­ated to invest­ig­a­tion stage and 3 respon­ded in time.	Amber
FOI/EIR requests	Responses to all FOI and EIR requests with­in 20 days	Dur­ing 2020 – 21 a total of 37 inform­a­tion requests were received • 14 Envir­on­ment­al Inform­a­tion Requests, • 21 Free­dom of Inform­a­tion Requests, • 2 Sub­ject Access Requests.	Green
H&S	Health and Safety — 0 RIDDOR report­able injur­ies. Max­im­ums of 0 major injury, I minor injury and 3 near misses.	36 respon­ded to with­in stat­utory times­cales I late response due to admin­is­trat­ive error. 0 RIDDOR report­able injury 0 Major Injury 0 minor injury	Green
Audit	No more than 2 top pri­or­ity audit recom­mend­a­tions in year.	A change in intern­al audit firm has led to a change in cat­egor­isa­tion of recom­mend­a­tions. This KPI remains green for 2020⁄21, with no top pri­or­ity (“very high risk”) recom­mend­a­tions in the year. There were 5 high pri­or­ity recom­mend­a­tions repor­ted as set out in the Audit and Risk Committee’s report to the Board on 28 May 2021.	Green
Income	Total Income in line with budget	Income tar­gets met or exceeded, con­trib­ut­ing to over­all draft break-even out­turn pos­i­tion for 2020⁄21.	Green
Core Budget	Core expendit­ure in line with or below budget:	Core expendit­ure gen­er­ally in line with or under budget’s for 2020⁄21, as revised to real­loc­ate invest­ment over course of the year.	Green
Oper­a­tion­al Plan Budget	Oper­a­tion­al Plan in line with or exceed­ing budget	Oper­a­tion­al plan invest­ments, as revised to real­loc­ate and increase invest­ment from core fin­ances pro­gressed as expec­ted for 2020/​21outturn.	Green
Fore­cast Out­turn break even	Final fin­an­cial net out­turn with­in +1% to ‑2% of total income includ­ing Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment grants.	Draft out­turn sub­mit­ted to extern­al audit gives an out­turn break-even pos­i­tion for 2020⁄21 fin­an­cial year, with a small total cap­it­al and resource under­spend of 0.7% of total income as repor­ted to Fin­ance and Deliv­ery Com­mit­tee in May 2021. Extern­al audit pro­cess yet to be completed.	Green
Next Year income	Next year income in line or above for­ward forecasts	2021⁄22 budget has con­firmed a step change increase in grant in aid fund­ing from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment as approved by the Board in March 2021.	Green
Oper­a­tion­al Plan Leverage	Oper­a­tion­al plan invest­ments secure extern­al fin­an­cing of 3 times value of CNPA total investment.	2021⁄22 Budget paper to Board and pre­vi­ous major pro­jects update high­lights a mod­elled lever­age rate of £17.50 for every £1 inves­ted by the Authority.	Green
Car­bon emis­sions: reduc­tion in CNPA gen­er­ated carbon	Tar­get 3% annu­al reduc­tion in baseline emis­sions = 150	Final emis­sions for 2020’21: 34.1 tonnes CO2, a decrease of 60.8% from pri­or year.	Green
emis­sions	estim­ated tonnes CO2 in 2007⁄08 (start of mod­el­ling). This meas­ure recal­cu­lated to fit with broad­er report­ing tool imple­men­ted by Scot­tish Government.	The 2020’21 fig­ure is a 77.20% decrease against the base year. Aver­age decrease per year from base year is 8.14%
Equal­it­ies: equal pay assess­ments on CNPA salaries	Pay assess­ments show equal pay between male and female employees	April 2017 = 21.47% Jan 2018 = 20.20% March 2019 = 19.25% April 2020 = 17.9% April 2021 — 17.4% Pos­i­tion is gradu­ally improv­ing as assessed by required equal pay assess­ment method.	Amber

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