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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAISEANTA Α’ MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

Cairngorms Equal­ity Advis­ory Pan­el 30^th Novem­ber 2021

5:00pm — 6:30pm — Held virtually

Minutes

Present Anita Howard Heath­er Earn­shaw Linda Bam­ford Vanessa Alt­weck Bo Hickey Kev­in Hutchens Stu­art Hall

Attend­ing Fiona McLean Kate Christie Vicky Walk­er Grant Moir Kath­er­ine Willing

1. Intro­duc­tion 1.1. The Group were wel­comed to the meet­ing. 1.2. The minutes and action log from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed.

2. Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (NPPP) 2.1. To avoid a con­flict of interest Fiona Mclean left the meet­ing and Kate Christie chaired the remainder of the meet­ing. As the EAP is a con­sul­tee this sec­tion of the meet­ing was con­duc­ted with little input from CNPA staff. The meet­ing was passed over to the mem­ber of the pan­el coordin­at­ing the response to give an update on pro­gress. 2.2. An update on the response was giv­en, and a remind­er of the dead­line was giv­en which indic­ated a lim­ited time­frame to com­plete addi­tion­al work. The pan­el were asked their opin­ion on the changes to the draft, if any gaps remained and if there should be any­thing added back in that had pre­vi­ously been removed. 2.3. The pan­el iden­ti­fied the fol­low­ing gaps;

   • Sum­mary of key high level points
   • Sign Post­ing to exist­ing strategies and legis­lat­ive targets
   • Need for a report­ing sys­tem on the con­di­tion of paths
   • Low Income Hol­i­day Options
   • High­light­ing where the park has done well 2.4. The pan­el sug­ges­ted mak­ing more use of appen­dices to help where inform­a­tion is com­plex and reduce the length of response. 2.5. The pan­el would like the response to be released in an easy read format to ensure that it is access­ible. 2.6. The pan­el were reminded that this is a stra­tegic man­age­ment doc­u­ment and some sug­ges­tions were more focused on unique strategy. There­fore, the pan­el were advised to stick to broad key points that could then be used later to cre­ate more spe­cif­ic strategy doc­u­ments. The pan­el ques­tioned wheth­er this was part of their remit or the respons­ib­il­ity of the read­er, how­ever, it was agreed that the table at the top would be strengthened to help align to this. 2.7. The pan­el asked for assur­ance that they were informed of what was to be included from their con­sulta­tion response and that they would be informed of the reas­on­ing where ele­ments are not included. It was agreed that the Head of Plan­ning would attend a meet­ing fol­low­ing the con­sulta­tion to dis­cuss this with the pan­el. 2.8. It was agreed that the pan­el would be able to view and com­ment on the Equal­ity Impact Assess­ment (EQIA) that reviewed the pro­cess of the con­sulta­tion. 2.9. It was agreed that the pan­el mem­ber who wrote the draft would make the amend­ments dis­cussed and then sub­mit this as the final version.

3. Any Oth­er Busi­ness 3.1. Scot­tish Youth Hostel Asso­ci­ation (SYHA) – A mem­ber of the pan­el asked if it would be pos­sible to have them attend a meet­ing in future to dis­cuss their work. 3.2. Sens­ory Dis­plays – A mem­ber sug­ges­ted that it would be good to see how sens­ory dis­plays could be incor­por­ated in the Nation­al Park. 3.3. Equal­ity Mon­it­or­ing Ques­tions – It was raised by a mem­ber of the pan­el that the equal­ity mon­it­or­ing ques­tions in the NPPP were not inclus­ive, the Pan­el wanted to know if there was a way to feed­back on this as opposed to the main part­ner­ship plan con­sulta­tion itself. It was agreed that this would be passed onto the Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions and the Head of Plan­ning as they are organ­ising the con­sulta­tion. 3.4. Advising on Pro­jects Tak­ing Place in the Park – A pan­el mem­ber raised if we were able to con­sult on pro­jects with­in the park that were not related to the work of the Park Author­ity. The pan­el was happy to do this but only if there was capa­city. The pan­el were asked to dir­ect any requests for con­sulta­tion to Vicky and Kate who will check wheth­er the request is appro­pri­ate and that it can be accom­mod­ated in the agenda. 3.5. Con­sulta­tion Burnout – A pan­el mem­ber sug­ges­ted that if there are shared areas of con­sulta­tion between Uni­ver­sity of the High­lands and Islands (UHI) and the CNPA that this is worked on jointly to reduce volun­teer burnout and fatigue. This fol­lows on from point 3.4 to ensure that the pan­el and volun­teers have capa­city to con­sult on the issue. It was fur­ther sug­ges­ted by the pan­el to refer some requests to the access pan­els to help spread the requests out. 3.6. Inclu­sion Scot­land Intern­ship – A pan­el mem­ber shared an Inclu­sion Scot­land Intern­ship oppor­tun­ity with UHI and asked if the pan­el could share this oppor­tun­ity with their net­works. The link will be shared with the pan­el via email.

3.7. Web­site Access­ib­il­ity — Thanks was giv­en to the mem­ber of the pan­el who con­trib­uted to the access­ib­il­ity state­ment for the web­site. It was also stated that if any mem­ber of the pan­el wished to read the full web­site access­ib­il­ity audit report, please con­tact Don­ald and he will be able to facil­it­ate this. 3.8. In-Per­son Meet­ing – The pos­sib­il­ity of an in-per­son meet­ing was raised. Time scales were dis­cussed with April being the pop­u­lar choice (it was men­tioned it would be best to avoid school hol­i­days). It was stated that CNPA would help with any addi­tion­al sup­port for reas­on­able adjust­ment. Any mem­bers of the pan­el who are not com­fort­able with this or who have any con­cerns are asked to con­tact Kate. The pan­el asked that trans­port from Aviemore was arranged to facil­it­ate trav­el­ling on pub­lic transport.

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