CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper ?? 12/03/21

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR DECISION

Title: STRA­TEGIC RISK MAN­AGE­MENT AND MAN­AGING HER­IT­AGE HORI­ZONS RISKS

Pre­pared by: Dav­id Camer­on, Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Services

Pur­pose

This paper sup­ports the Audit and Risk Committee’s review of the stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion of the Authority.

The paper also picks up the refer­ral to the Com­mit­tee of the con­sid­er­a­tion of hand­ling the risks around the Her­it­age Hori­zons pro­gramme, fol­low­ing on from the Board meet­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2021.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to:

a) Review the Authority’s stra­tegic risk register, agree­ing any required amend­ments or mit­ig­a­tion actions; b) Agree any stra­tegic risk man­age­ment implic­a­tions and their poten­tial mit­ig­a­tion arising from the her­it­age Hori­zons pro­gramme development.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. The Park Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic risk register is attached at Annex I to this paper. This has been revised to imple­ment changes agreed by the Com­mit­tee to repu­ta­tion­al risk man­age­ment fol­low­ing the meet­ing in Novem­ber 2020.

2. The Com­mit­tee is invited to review the pos­i­tion on stra­tegic risk man­age­ment as set out in the risk register and:

   a. Con­sider the adequacy of cov­er­age stra­tegic risk man­age­ment around achieve­ment of the Authority’s cur­rent stra­tegic object­ives; b. Con­sider the adequacy and effect­ive­ness of mit­ig­a­tion actions set out in the risk register.

3. The Board also reques­ted that the Com­mit­tee con­sider the implic­a­tions of the Her­it­age Hori­zons pro­pos­als, includ­ing gov­ernance and risk man­age­ment of the pro­gramme and their poten­tial implic­a­tions for the Authority’s wider risk management.

4. The Com­mit­tee is reques­ted to con­sider the risk man­age­ment implic­a­tions for the Author­ity arising from the devel­op­ment of these pro­gramme proposals.

Dav­id Cameron 3 March 2021 davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk