CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper 6 27/05/22

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR DECISION

Title: STRA­TEGIC RISK MAN­AGE­MENT OVERVIEW

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CAMER­ON, DIR­ECT­OR OF COR­POR­ATE SERVICES

Pur­pose

This paper sup­ports the Audit and Risk Committee’s review of the stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion of the Authority.

The paper presents the most recent update to the Authority’s stra­tegic risk register, fol­low­ing review of risk man­age­ment action and pos­i­tion by the Seni­or Man­age­ment Team in May 2022.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Review the Authority’s stra­tegic risk register, agree­ing any required amend­ments or mit­ig­a­tion actions;

Cairngorms NPA Stra­tegic Risk Management

1. The Park Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic risk register is attached at Annex I to this paper. This has been revised to imple­ment changes agreed by the Seni­or Man­age­ment Team in May 2022, which fol­lows review by the board as part of the review of stra­tegic cor­por­ate per­form­ance at its meet­ing on 25 March 2022.

2. The Com­mit­tee is invited to review the pos­i­tion on stra­tegic risk man­age­ment as set out in the risk register and:

   a) Con­sider the adequacy of cov­er­age stra­tegic risk man­age­ment around achieve­ment of the Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic object­ives; b) Con­sider the adequacy and effect­ive­ness of mit­ig­a­tion actions set out in the risk register.

3. Man­age­ment con­sider that one stra­tegic risk is on a con­sist­ent down­ward trend should be closed as a stra­tegic risk to the Author­ity at this time. Two fur­ther risks on Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy resourcing have been iden­ti­fied for mer­ger into a single stra­tegic risk.

4. While one fur­ther stra­tegic risk is assessed as con­tinu­ing on a down­ward trend for some time, the view of man­age­ment team is that these risks should be retained as open for the time being.

Her­it­age Hori­zons Pro­gramme Risk Management

1. The Her­it­age Hori­zons: Cairngorms 2030 Pro­gramme Board has respons­ib­il­ity for risk man­age­ment of the pro­gramme which is cur­rently in its devel­op­ment phase cycle with­in the Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund system.

2. The Cairngorms NPA Board has reques­ted that the Com­mit­tee con­sider the implic­a­tions of the Her­it­age Hori­zons pro­pos­als, includ­ing gov­ernance and risk man­age­ment of the pro­gramme and their poten­tial implic­a­tions for the Authority’s wider risk man­age­ment. The risk man­age­ment report to the Her­it­age Hori­zons Pro­gramme Board has not been presen­ted again to the Pro­gramme Board since its last meet­ing of 3 Feb­ru­ary 2022 with the next meet­ing sched­uled on 25 May. The her­it­age Hori­zons risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion is there­fore not presen­ted to the Com­mit­tee at this time.

Dav­id Cameron 16 May 2022 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk