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Form­al Board Paper 3 8 Septem­ber 2023 Page 1 of 2

Title: Cor­por­ate Per­form­ance ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ Update

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

Pur­pose

This paper presents a review of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s Cor­por­ate Per­form­ance over ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ fin­an­cial and oper­a­tion­al year.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Board is asked to:

a) Review the update on the Park Authority’s cor­por­ate per­form­ance over ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ presen­ted with this paper. b) Dis­cuss any mat­ters of sig­ni­fic­ance arising from this cor­por­ate per­form­ance update for ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ to the Park Authority’s ongo­ing per­form­ance in deliv­ery of the organization’s stra­tegic object­ives as set out in the agreed Cor­por­ate Plan for 2023 to 2027. c) Con­sider the cov­er­age of the Park Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic risk register.

Inform­a­tion

1. The ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ fin­an­cial and oper­a­tion­al year rep­res­ents a trans­ition­al year for the Park Author­ity between the pri­or Cor­por­ate Plan at the agreed stra­tegic object­ives for the organ­iz­a­tion estab­lished with­in that for the four years to 31 March 2022, and the new Cor­por­ate Plan agreed by the board in March 2023 span­ning 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2027. As such, the Park Author­ity did not have the nor­mal set of stra­tegic cor­por­ate per­form­ance assess­ment sys­tems and key per­form­ance indict­ors in place against which to bench­mark per­form­ance. The Board adop­ted a trans­ition­al plan for ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ as part of the con­sid­er­a­tion and approv­al of the budget and oper­a­tion­al plan for the year, includ­ing out­come tar­gets: 220316 Budget Annex Final (cairngorms​.co​.uk)
2. The Chief Executive’s update to the board provided a quarterly update for mem­bers on the Park Authority’s key areas of activ­ity in deliv­ery of this trans­ition­al plan and our coordin­a­tion of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (NPPP).

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Form­al Board Paper 3 8 Septem­ber 2023 Page 2 of 2

1. A sum­mary per­form­ance report cov­er­ing key aspects of cor­por­ate per­form­ance has been pre­pared as part of the draft annu­al report and accounts for ²⁰²²⁄₂₃, to be presen­ted to the extern­al aud­it­ors along with the Park Authority’s fin­an­cial state­ments. This draft report is presen­ted to the board at this point to provide a high-level over­view of the Park Authority’s key areas of deliv­ery over the course of ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ togeth­er with the sum­mary fin­an­cial per­form­ance. Read­ers of this paper should note that at this point all fin­an­cial inform­a­tion for ²⁰²²⁄₂₃ remains sub­ject to extern­al audit review.
2. The Park Author­ity is devel­op­ing a revised cor­por­ate per­form­ance frame­work based on the con­tent of the agreed 2023 to 2027 Cor­por­ate Plan. Future cor­por­ate per­form­ance updates to board will revert to more tra­di­tion­al ana­lys­is of cor­por­ate per­form­ance against agreed KPIs as was the prac­tice dur­ing the pre­vi­ous 2018 to 2022 Cor­por­ate Plan period.

Risk Man­age­ment

1. The Park Author­ity has con­tin­ued to have an over­sight of its Stra­tegic and Oper­a­tion­al Risk Man­age­ment through­out the trans­ition between the pre­vi­ous and cur­rent Cor­por­ate Plan peri­ods. The Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee has reg­u­larly reviewed the Park Authority’s Stra­tegic Risk Register and also con­sidered wheth­er any poten­tial impacts on the Author­ity may arise from risk man­age­ment of the Cairngorms 2030 Her­it­age Hori­zons Devel­op­ment Phase.
2. The Park Authority’s cur­rent Stra­tegic Risk Register as reviewed by the Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee at its meet­ing of 21 June 2023 is set out at Annex Two to this paper.
3. The Stra­tegic Risk Register will be redeveloped over the com­ing months, informed by the Board’s recent risk appet­ite work­shop and also by recom­mend­a­tions from a recent intern­al audit review of the Park Authority’s approach to risk management.
4. Any com­ment from Board at this time on the cov­er­age of the Park Authority’s stra­tegic risk register is welcome.

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