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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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EAP Meet­ing Held vir­tu­ally on the 27 June 2023

Present: Alan Smith (CNPA) Anita Howard Becca Mayo Bo Mansell Caitlin (Scot­tish Ram­blers) Colin Simpson (CNPA) Fiona McLean (Chair) Kate Christie (CNPA) Kath­er­ine Will­ing (CNPA) Kev­in Hutchens Lili­ana Cor­ri­eri Lina Payne Linda Bam­ford Sam Knight (Scot­tish Ram­blers) Sian McClus­k­ey (Scot­tish Ram­blers) Stu­art Hall Vanessa Altweck

Apo­lo­gies: Heath­er Earnshaw

1. Item one: Wel­come • Fiona wel­comed the group and guests to the meeting.

2. Item two: Recap and actions from pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 30 May 2023. • Minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed. • The action log will be reviewed by Kate and Fiona over the sum­mer break to cov­er the longer-term actions. • A pan­el mem­ber asked if a timetable of speak­ers can be writ­ten and cir­cu­lated to the panel.

3. Item three: Present­a­tion from Ram­blers Scot­land Out There Award Ambas­sad­ors • Sam, Caitlin and Sian from Ram­blers Scot­land gave the pan­el an over­view of the Out There award. They dis­cussed the chal­lenges and bar­ri­ers that people may face when try­ing to access the out­doors and what they have done so far to address these bar­ri­ers. The pan­el were asked to con­sider how the scheme could be applied to the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

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• The pan­el com­ple­men­ted the scheme and felt that there was a good under­stand­ing of Inclu­sion shown through­out the present­a­tion. • The pan­el asked wheth­er any­thing had been done pre­vi­ously to bring the scheme to the Cairngorms area and wheth­er there was any­thing spe­cif­ic that the pan­el could help with. The presenters and CNPA staff present explained that they are at the begin­ning of look­ing at how this could work in the Cairngorms area. The pan­el sug­ges­ted the main bar­ri­er to oper­at­ing the scheme In the Cairngorms would be trans­port and sug­ges­ted includ­ing nav­ig­a­tion of pub­lic trans­port in the train­ing course cov­er­ing areas, such as, inter­pret­ing timetables and what to do if the trans­port does not arrive. • The pan­el also sug­ges­ted that the con­ces­sion travel for those under 22 years of age could help to over­come some of the bar­ri­ers young people may exper­i­ence when aim­ing to take part in the scheme. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted that this may link well with the green pre­scrip­tion work being done by CHAMS. CNPA sup­port staff explained that the Cairngorms 2030 pro­ject will be incor­por­at­ing green pre­scrib­ing. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted cre­at­ing links between the scheme and young people who are care exper­i­enced. • The pan­el also sug­ges­ted look­ing at data spe­cific­ally focused on eth­nic minor­ity groups.

1. Item four: Equal­ity Impact Assess­ment Tem­plate — Kate Christie • Kate gave an over­view of the tem­plate and asked for feed­back from the pan­el. • The pan­el felt that the tem­plate flowed well and acts as a well-integ­rated impact assess­ment. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted that for the descriptors of child poverty there could be a dir­ect lift from the Child poverty Act and Child Poverty Deliv­ery Plan so that the descriptors match. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted includ­ing crime fig­ures. • The pan­el dis­cussed that patern­ity is not a pro­tec­ted char­ac­ter­ist­ic. It was felt it is import­ant for it to be included but poten­tially in a sep­ar­ate area to mater­nity. For example, a sec­tion on par­ent­hood and patern­ity under an inter­sec­tion­al approach. Altern­at­ively, the pan­el dis­cussed it being included under the pro­tec­ted char­ac­ter­ist­ic of sex or under the umbrella of caring respons­ib­il­it­ies. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted adding a sum­mary of the pro­tec­ted char­ac­ter­ist­ics. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted adding a sec­tion for any oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions. • The pan­el felt the appendix makes the doc­u­ment long, to com­bat this it was sug­ges­ted that there is a sep­ar­ate doc­u­ment for guid­ance. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted adding a poten­tial time­frame for how long it will take to com­plete to help man­age the expect­a­tions of the officer com­plet­ing the doc­u­ment. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that there should also be a state­ment explain­ing that it will take con­sid­er­able amount of time as it should be a detailed and cross-cut­ting document.

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1. Item five: AOBs • A pan­el mem­ber asked for it to be raised with staff that Care Exper­i­enced People are ask­ing for this to become a pro­tec­ted char­ac­ter­ist­ic. It was sug­ges­ted that CNPA may wish to look at the prom­ise and what com­mit­ments could be made through this. • The pan­el asked for an update on recruit­ment. Kate explained that recruit­ment would be opened on the 24^th of July. Kate asked for quotes for social media and the Cairn Magazine. the link will be sent to all pan­el mem­bers to share when with their net­works once recruit­ment opens. • The pan­el asked for an update on the face-to-face event. Kate explained they were plan­ning an event for late Octo­ber in the east side of the park. • It was sug­ges­ted and agreed that the monthly meet­ings would be moved to 5:30pm to 6:30pm and would be a single item agenda start­ing from the august meeting.

End of meeting

Next meet­ing 29^th August 2023