For Dis­cus­sion

Title: Stra­tegic Risk Management

Pre­pared by: Dav­id Camer­on, Deputy Chief Exec­ut­ive & Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Services

Pur­pose

This paper sup­ports a review by the Com­mit­tee of the Cairngorms NPA’s stra­tegic risk man­age­ment position.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Con­sider the cov­er­age and adequacy of the Cairngorms NPA’s stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion and advise on any gaps or amend­ments required to the cur­rent stra­tegic risk register.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. The Cairngorms NPA’s most recent stra­tegic risk register and stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion is set out as Annex 1 to this report.

2. The Park Author­ity is now at a trans­ition­al point as regards its stra­tegic risk man­age­ment. The new cor­por­ate plan for ²⁰²³⁄₂₄ to ²⁰²⁶⁄₂₇ has been approved by the board at its meet­ing in March 2023. The board has held a risk appet­ite work­shop in May 2023, the out­comes of which are covered under a sep­ar­ate item on the agenda for this meet­ing. As such, the format and con­tent of the stra­tegic risk register is likely to change con­sid­er­ably mov­ing for­ward. The cur­rent stra­tegic risk register there­fore has a lim­ited peri­od of remain­ing validity.

3. It remains import­ant to con­tin­ue con­sid­er­a­tion of the Park Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic risk envir­on­ment in this trans­ition­al peri­od. The Com­mit­tee is there­fore invited to con­sider the cur­rent cov­er­age of the stra­tegic risk register as set out in Annex One to this paper.

Dav­id Cameron davidCameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk