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Assur­ance Area	Risk Register Link	Azets sug­ges­ted assur­ance need	Detailed Areas
Fin­an­cial and work­force planning	A1, A9.3, A11.1, A20, A29	High	Fin­an­cial Plan­ning and Decision Mak­ing includ­ing Income/​Funding Pro­grammes; Work­force and Capa­city Planning
Stra­tegic and oper­a­tion­al plan­ning and delivery	A1, A16, A21, A22, A24, A27, A28, A20, A14.1	High	Stra­tegic Plan­ning and Decision Mak­ing includ­ing Nature and Cli­mate Change — Nation­al Strategies Deliv­ery; Oper­a­tion­al Plan­ning for Con­ser­va­tion; Oper­a­tion­al Plan­ning, Man­age­ment and Report­ing includ­ing Imple­ment­a­tion of Nation­al Park Tour­ism Action Plan, cor­por­ate plan and NPPP; NPPP imple­ment­a­tion, mon­it­or­ing and eval­u­tion pro­cesses; Cor­por­ate Plan imple­ment­a­tion — cor­por­ate per­form­ance frame­work oper­a­tion; Plan­ning Ser­vice includ­ing deliv­ery, KPI’s, com­pli­ance with plan­ning con­di­tions and enforce­ment actions; Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Imple­ment­a­tion; Part­ner­ships and Stra­tegic Out­comes, includ­ing com­munity and loc­al devel­op­ment plan­ning; Envir­on­ment­al Sus­tain­ab­il­ity; Access author­ity — stat­utory oblig­a­tions; Effect­ive­ness of Case­work Advice in Deliv­er­ing Stra­tegic Outcomes/​Priorities and effi­ciency of case­work pro­cesses includ­ing mon­it­or­ing and enforcement
Cor­por­ate Gov­ernance and Culture	A14.1, A21, A22, A9.3, A12.2, A29, A28	Medi­um	Board and Gov­ernance Com­mit­tee Effect­ive­ness; Board Admin­is­tra­tion Sup­port Pro­cesses; Risk Man­age­ment, with spe­cif­ic emphas­is on man­age­ment of COIVD Impact on Ser­vice Deliv­ery and Stra­tegic Out­comes; Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity and Dis­aster Recov­ery; Respond­ing to FOI and EIR Requests Com­plaints; Health and Safety with a spe­cif­ic focus on Man­age­ment of Risk; HR Pro­cesses includ­ing Occu­pa­tion­al Health, Absence Man­age­ment, Invest­ig­a­tions, Worko­ad; Cul­ture, Val­ues and Behaviours
Recruit­ment and retention	A12.2, A29, A28	High	New Start Pro­cesses for staff, board mem­bers and volun­teers; Staff Per­form­ance Apprais­al Pro­cesses; Staff Train­ing Pro­cesses includ­ing spe­cif­ic train­ing for volunteers
Fin­an­cial Management	A1, A11.1, A16, A12.2	High	Sound fin­an­cial Man­age­ment and Effect­ive Man­age­ment Account­ing (e.g. Budget Man­age­ment, treas­ury and cash man­age­ment, expendit­ure and cred­it­ors, income and receiv­ables includ­ing debt man­age­ment, counter fraud activ­it­ies); Non-cur­rent Assets includ­ing main­ten­ance of the Large Scale Assets; Payroll, Pen­sions and oth­er staff pay­ments e.g. travel and sub­sist­ence, enhance­ments; Pro­cure­ment Strategy, Pro­cesses and Decision Mak­ing; Fund­ing Pro­gramme Require­ments and effect­ive grant man­age­ment pro­cesses (short term)
Fund­ing Programmes	A11.1, A17, A20	High	Com­pli­ance with Fund­ing Pro­gramme Require­ments and monitoring/​delivery of object­ives (long term), exclud­ing those with sig­ni­fic­ant part­ner­ship fund­ing; Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy — Strategy and Imple­ment­a­tion, includ­ing fin­an­cial decision mak­ing for IT; Inform­a­tion Secur­ity includ­ing Cyber Secur­ity and GDPR Compliance
IT and Inform­a­tion Security	A17, A20	Medi­um	Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy — Strategy and Imple­ment­a­tion, includ­ing fin­an­cial decision mak­ing for IT; Inform­a­tion Secur­ity includ­ing Cyber Secur­ity and GDPR Compliance
Facil­it­ies management	A14.1, A24	Low	Facil­it­ies Man­age­ment Pro­cesses; Facil­it­ies Man­age­ment Strategy
Com­mu­nic­a­tion and Stake­hold­er Engagement	A14.1, A24, A26, A12.2, A25	High	Intern­al and Extern­al Com­mu­nic­a­tion Pro­cesses; Media Man­age­ment Pro­cesses; Stake­hold­er Engage­ment pro­cesses for Min­is­teri­al and Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment Liais­on, spe­cif­ic emphaais on ensur­ing align­ment between nation­al and NPA pri­or­it­ies as part of per­form­ance man­age­ment devel­op­ment and mon­it­or­ing; Cus­tom­er Rela­tion­ship Man­age­ment; Edu­ca­tion and Learn­ing — Aware­ness rais­ing activities
Pro­ject and Pro­gramme Management	A25, A28	High	Pro­ject and Pro­gramme Man­age­ment; Pro­gramme and Pro­ject per­form­ance of sponsored / extern­ally fun­ded pro­grammes and key grant fun­ded part­ner rela­tion­ships; Cairngorms 2030: Her­it­age Hori­zons Pro­gramme deliv­ery and impacts