CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR DECISION

Title: INTERN­AL AUDIT: LEAD­ER REVIEW

Cov­er Paper Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SERVICES

Report Sub­mit­ted by: CHRIS BROWN, AZETS

Pur­pose

This paper presents the review of the Cairngorms LEAD­ER Pro­gramme admin­is­tra­tion and the Cairngorms NPA’s com­pli­ance with the terms of the Ser­vice Level Agree­ment (SLA) agreed with Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment. The review has been under­taken as part of the agreed Intern­al Audit Plan for ²⁰²¹⁄₂₂.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Con­sider the intern­al aud­it­ors report and find­ings; b) Endorse the man­age­ment responses to recom­mend­a­tions for future action and sys­tem improvements.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. Azets have under­taken a review of the Authority’s admin­is­tra­tion of the Cairngorms LEAD­ER Pro­gramme and com­pli­ance with the SLA agreed between the Cairngorms NPA and Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment. The intern­al audit report is presen­ted in full at Annex I to this paper.

2. Four recom­mend­a­tions for improve­ment actions are raised, all of which have been accep­ted by man­age­ment. Responses to recom­mend­a­tions out­lining future action to be taken, officers respons­ible and timetable for action have been set out in the report at Annex I. Two recom­mend­a­tions are assessed to have lim­ited risk expos­ure, while two have mod­er­ate risk exposure.

3. The report help­fully iden­ti­fies cross-over from our LEAD­ER admin­is­tra­tion into wider con­trol areas asso­ci­ated with Data and Records Man­age­ment and project/​programme man­age­ment controls.

Dav­id Cameron 1 Octo­ber 2021 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk