KPI Report­ing

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY Form­al Board Paper 3 Annex 2 25^th March 2022

Indic­at­or	Tar­get	Update	Rat­ing
Con­ser­va­tion and Land Use
Area of new nat­ive woodland	1000 ha pa	The rate of approved affor­est­a­tion across the last five years, achieved through a mix­ture of nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion and plant­ing, has on aver­age exceeded the tar­get rate of 1000 ha per year. Early indic­a­tions, based on draft wood­land cre­ation pro­pos­als shap­ing up on vari­ous estates across the CNP, sug­gest the aver­age annu­al rate of affor­est­a­tion will increase sig­ni­fic­antly across the next five year period.	Green
Area of peat­land restoration	1000 ha pa	In 2021⁄22 the CNPA Peat­land Action pro­gramme is cur­rently on track to deliv­er around 550ha of peat­land res­tor­a­tion man­age­ment across 10 sites on 7 estates by March 2022. The tar­get for this year is 557ha. Pre­cise meas­ure­ments are not yet avail­able but the team is con­fid­ent that the work done to date will be very close to tar­get. The cur­rent mild winter has enabled peat­land res­tor­a­tion to con­tin­ue through­out much of Janu­ary. If mild con­di­tions con­tin­ue into Feb­ru­ary then around 700ha of peat­land res­tor­a­tion man­age­ment could be achieved by end March which would exceed tar­get agreed with Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment to under­pin fund­ing, while below the ori­gin­al tar­get adop­ted at the com­mence­ment of this Cor­por­ate Plan .	Amber
Deer dens­ity across Deer Man­age­ment Groups	Reduc­tions towards 10 per km² or less	Dis­cus­sions with South Deeside and North Angus DMG and South Grampi­an DMG are ongo­ing as to the scope of their Stra­tegic Land Use Plans and how these should be developed. The aim is to com­mence gath­er­ing data in April 2022. This may be done by con­sult­ants or through the com­bined intern­al resources of the DMGs and CNPA. The devel­op­ment of Stra­tegic Land Use Plans for SDNA and SG DMGs will be taken for­ward with­in the Her­it­age Hori­zons pro­gramme. West Grampi­ans DMG have already agreed the scope and con­tent of their plan and have a con­sult­ant, an inde­pend­ent Chair and a Steer­ing Group in place.	Amber
Num­ber of Capercaillie	1200 by 2022	Tar­get will not be met. Full nation­al sur­vey res­ults due in 2022 but oth­er sur­veys sug­gest pop­u­la­tion has declined ser­i­ously from the 1100 birds estim­ated 2016	Red
Num­bers of wild­life crime incid­ents in the Park	Zero per annum	Wild­life crime con­tin­ues to be a ser­i­ous issue in the Park. We con­tin­ue to work with Nature Scot, Police Scot­land and Rap­tor study group and BTO tag devel­op­ment is still ongo­ing. In the mean­time three altern­at­ive tags have been fit­ted on to golden eagles in the park dur­ing the 2021 breed­ing sea­son. All birds are still in, or in close prox­im­ity to, the Park. Cairngorms Nature Strategy Group are con­sid­er­ing pos­sible actions to fur­ther address this issue and take for­ward rap­tor con­ser­va­tion in CNP.	Red
Length of path upgraded or extended	20km upgraded by 2022 6km new path by 2022	51.8 km of path upgraded by Moun­tains & People pro­ject (ended Jan 2021) 6.5 km of new path con­struc­ted along Spey­side Way Exten­sion & Sev­en Bridges path Bal­later. Fur­ther improve­ments to the route at Grant­own, Kin­craig have secured fund­ing sup­port from NatureScot with pos­sible upgrade 2022	Com­plete
Tour­ism Impact	Increase eco­nom­ic impact of vis­it­ors to east­ern and south­ern CNP from 21% to 25% of total vis­it­or eco­nomy by 2022	STEAM data for 2019 indic­ates that eco­nom­ic impact of vis­it­ors to east­ern and south­ern CNP to be 21.6% of the total vis­it­or eco­nomy. This is slightly above the baseline fig­ure but a decline on 2017 (22.8%) and 2018 (21.9 %) STEAM data for 2020 still being evaluated	Red
Com­ple­tions of John Muir Awards	2500 awards per annum and ensure at least 20% from dis­ad­vant­aged backgrounds	Some 2684 people com­pleted a John Muir Award in and around Cairngorms in 2019. JMA cur­rently on hold as we come out of Cov­id-19 lock­down. In 2020 a total of 972 John Muir Awards were com­pleted, and 832 in 2021, con­sid­er­ably down on nor­mal due to Cov­id-19 restrictions.	Amber
Num­ber of Volun­teer Rangers	Min­im­um 8 volun­teer rangers trained per annum	Pro­ject has trained 38 Volun­teer Rangers with most now re-enga­ging as we come out of Cov­id-19 lock­down. Nine addi­tion­al Volun­teer Rangers will be train­ing Spring 2022	Green
5 yr Vis­it­or Sur­vey 2020	Increase Social Grade ​‘C2, D, E’ vis­it­ors from 18 to 20%	Full sur­vey data indic­ates 27% C2, D & E with 97% response rate — sig­ni­fic­antly high­er than 2015 18% with 94% response rate	Green
Num­ber of afford­able houses delivered as a pro­por­tion of total houses delivered per annum	200 new afford­able houses by 2022	The CNPA has gran­ted con­sent (includ­ing con­sent by appeal) for 578 afford­able homes since 31st March 2018. 375 afford­able units are part of the plan­ning per­mis­sion in prin­ciple issued for An Camus Mor. Of the 203 oth­er afford­able homes giv­en con­sent, 34 are com­pleted and 54 are in con­struc­tion. A fur­ther 22 afford­able units have been com­pleted on con­sents issued before 31 March 2018, mean­ing that 56 afford­able homes have been com­pleted. A Com­munity Hous­ing Pro­ject in Tomin­toul is in con­struc­tion with 12 units and a plan­ning applic­a­tion for 15 com­munity owned afford­able houses in Brae­mar is progressing.	Green
Num­ber of people involved in com­munity activ­ity for the first time through LEAD­ER support	By end of Pro­gramme = 80	LEAD­ER Pro­gramme Mon­it­or­ing and Eval­u­ation cur­rently report­ing 227 people have become involved in com­munity pro­jects for the first time through the programme’s interventions.	Achieved
Busi­ness sat­is­fac­tion with CNPA	Main­tain or increase from 17⁄18 aver­age (5.44 out of 10)	Mur­ray to complete
Staff Turnover	Staff Turnover level not more than 10%	Turnover to April 2021 — Septem­ber 2021 was 6% (exclud­ing short term con­tracts, 5 leav­ers out of head­count of 83 (sept 2021) ). In the peri­od Octo­ber 2021 to March 2022, turnover is fore­cast to be approx.. 4%	Green
Recruit­ment	Suc­cess­ful recruit­ment to all vacant posts	3 posts were not recruited at first launch. Two had to be re-spe­cified and were then suc­cess­fully appoin­ted. One went back to recruit­ment in the same format. This post is still live	Amber
Staff Absence	Staff absence levels below 5 days per per­son per year and no more than 3 absences in a 12 month period	April — June 2021. Absence (excl cov­id)- 0.43 days, (incl cov­id) 0.46 days. Sick­ness absence of 0.27 days. July — Septem­ber 2021. Absence (excl cov­id)- 0.72 days, (incl cov­id) 0.78 days. Sick­ness absence of 0.49 days Octo­ber – Decem­ber 2021 Absence (excl cov­id)- 1.07 days, (incl cov­id) 1.14 days. Sick­ness absence of 0.96 days	Green
Causes of absence	NO work related causes of absence	April — Decem­ber 2021: — no work related causes of absence	Green
Case load	Max­im­um 2 incid­ences of form­al HR case­load in a rolling 12 month period	April — Decem­ber 2021: — no form­al caseload	Green
Com­plaints	100% of com­plaints on log respon­ded to with­in good prac­tice time frames.	April 2021 — Feb­ru­ary 2022: — 17 com­plaints. 6 dealt with at front­line res­ol­u­tion stage – all with­in time; I was an extern­al mat­ter; 10 dealt with at invest­ig­a­tion stage, of which 9 were on time, and I was on time from fol­low up request seek­ing clarification.	Green
FOI/EIR requests	Responses to all FOI and EIR requests with­in 20 days	At end of Q3 2021 – 22 — 92% of inform­a­tion requests were respon­ded to with­in 20 days a total of 2 requests were respon­ded to out­side of stat­utory dead­lines one due to an admin­is­trat­ive error and one due to staff absence	Amber
H&S	Health and Safety — 0 RIDDOR report­able injur­ies. Max­im­ums of 0 major injury, I minor injury and 3 near misses.	0 RIDDOR report­able injury 0 Major Injury 0 minor injury	Green
Audit	No more than 2 top pri­or­ity audit recom­mend­a­tions in year.	With two intern­al audit reviews still to have final reports sub­mit­ted, there are no top pri­or­ity audit recom­mend­a­tions over the year.
Income	Total Income in line with budget	Total income back in line with budget fol­low­ing reversal of pro­posed 2% resource grant saving
Core Budget	Core expendit­ure in line with or below budget:	Core budgets all either in line or below budget. In year budget amend­ments made to real­loc­ate resource from core areas of expendit­ure to sup­port oper­a­tion­al plan invest­ment in deliv­ery of stra­tegic outcomes.
Oper­a­tion­al Plan Budget	Oper­a­tion­al Plan in line with or exceed­ing budget	Oper­a­tion­al Plan budgets with excep­tion of peat­land pro­gramme expendit­ure all in line with or in excess of ori­gin­al budget, with addi­tion­al invest­ment sup­por­ted by real­loc­a­tion of budget from areas of core run­ning costs. Peat­land pro­gramme fund­ing amend­ments agreed in advance with Scot­tish Government.
Fore­cast Out­turn break even	Final fin­an­cial net out­turn with­in +1% to ‑2% of total income includ­ing Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment grants.	Con­tin­ue to fore­cast fin­an­cial out­turn pos­i­tion with­in estab­lished range.
Next Year income	Next year income in line or above for­ward forecasts	2022⁄23 fore­cast income cur­rently ahead of ini­tial budget fore­casts, with uncer­tainty remain­ing at time of this update around peat­land pro­gramme resource fund­ing and nature res­tor­a­tion invest­ment to replace Biod­iversity Chal­lenge Funding.
Oper­a­tion­al Plan Leverage	Oper­a­tion­al plan invest­ments secure extern­al fin­an­cing of 3 times value of CNPA total investment.	Sig­ni­fic­ant extern­al fund­ing secured for Her­it­age Hori­zons Pro­gramme and Cairngorms Caper­cail­lie Pro­ject, togeth­er with addi­tion­al fund­ing in place for oth­er pro­ject activ­it­ies, con­tin­ue to secure deliv­ery of this objective.
Car­bon emis­sions: reduc­tion in CNPA gen­er­ated car­bon emissions	Tar­get 3% annu­al reduc­tion in baseline emis­sions = 150 estim­ated tonnes CO2 in 2007⁄08 (start of mod­el­ling). This meas­ure recal­cu­lated to fit with broad­er report­ing tool imple­men­ted by Scot­tish Government.	Our last repor­ted fig­ures for 2020/​21gave total emis­sions of 53 tCO2e, only 35.3% of the baseline fig­ure and there­fore almost a 65% reduc­tion from that level since 2007⁄08, well ahead of the annu­al tar­get. (Pri­or year level, 2019⁄20 with only min­im­al COVID19 inter­rup­tion to oper­a­tions = 85 tCO2e.) Final emis­sion fig­ures for March 2022 will be known in April 2022. Quarterly mon­it­or­ing of dif­fer­ent emis­sion items con­tinu­ing through­out the year. Vehicle mileage increased con­sid­er­ably in cur­rent year com­pared to pre­vi­ous year when full lock­down was in place. Oth­er items of mon­it­or­ing reas­on­ably con­stant to pri­or year. This points to a likely over­all increase in emis­sions in the year, how­ever, it must be noted the emis­sion res­ults in the year to March 2021 was an excep­tion rather than norm due to the lock­down restric­tions in place for staff move­ment. Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment intro­duced in March 2021 sub­mis­sion a cal­cu­la­tion for Home­work­ing emis­sions based on num­ber of FTE work­ing from home dur­ing lock­down. It is cur­rently unknown wheth­er this is con­tinu­ing in the March 2022 sub­mis­sion – the cal­cu­la­tion is built-in to the sub­mis­sion data page which is made avail­able September/​October	Green
Equal­it­ies: equal pay assess­ments on CNPA salaries	Pay assess­ments show equal pay between male and female employees	April 2021 – 17.44. High com­par­at­ive to Scot­land (10.4% in 2020), but on down­ward tra­ject­ory on a con­tin­ued down­ward tra­ject­ory of the cor­por­ate plan period .	Amber