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ARC Paper 6 Cover Risk Registers

Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee Paper 6 19 June 2026 Page 1 of 2

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

For dis­cus­sion

Title: Stra­tegic risk registers Pre­pared by: Louise Allen, Head of Fin­ance and Cor­por­ate Operations

Pur­pose

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

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to: a) Con­sider the cov­er­age and adequacy of the Park Authority’s stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion and advise on any gaps or amend­ments required to the cur­rent stra­tegic risk register. b) Con­sider the cov­er­age and adequacy of the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion and advise on any gaps or amend­ments required to the cur­rent pro­gramme risk register.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

  1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s most recent stra­tegic risk register, and stra­tegic risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion is set out in Annex 1. The register was last reviewed by the Exec­ut­ive on 11 May 2026. Amend­ments made are shown in purple text.

  2. Com­ments and mit­ig­a­tion actions have been updated; changes since the last ver­sion provided to the Com­mit­tee (13 March 2026) are shown in purple text.

  3. There were 14 act­ive risks on the Stra­tegic Risk Register on 13 March 2026. Of these, 3 are now con­sidered to be man­aged: risks 1, 3 and 11.

  4. Risk 9 shows an escal­at­ing trend, with a sig­ni­fic­ant action plan to be addressed in respect of IT dis­aster recov­ery pro­ced­ures, and a need for busi­ness con­tinu­ity plan­ning. The advis­ory review car­ried out by wbg as part of the 2025 – 26 intern­al audit pro­gramme, has iden­ti­fied a sig­ni­fic­ant body of work to be under­taken in pri­or­it­ising the crit­ic­al­ity of sys­tems, con­sid­er­ing data loss capa­cit­ies and doc­u­ment­ing sys­tems and approaches to guide action in a situ­ation of crisis.

  5. All oth­er risks are con­sidered to be stat­ic or declin­ing in trend.

  6. The Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme risk register, and risk man­age­ment pos­i­tion is set out in Annex 2.

  7. The total pro­gramme risk pro­file is green.

  8. The amber rat­ing for risk 7 (Act­ive Com­munit­ies Pro­jects fun­ded by Trans­port Scot­land) reflects the uncer­tainty of fund­ing for the next stage of the pro­ject. It is anti­cip­ated that if fund­ing is awar­ded, it will be dur­ing the Sum­mer of 2026. This means that there is likely to be a short times­cale for deliv­ery of the work. A repri­or­it­isa­tion of trans­port theme pro­jects will be com­pleted by August / Septem­ber once Trans­port Scot­land fund­ing decisions have been com­mu­nic­ated. Mat­ters have been raised with Scot­tish Government.

  9. Risk 2 — out­stand­ing match fund­ing com­mit­ments are being fol­lowed up pri­or to a review of the programme’s fin­an­cial pos­i­tion in August / Septem­ber 2026 when key fund­ing decisions on trans­port and oth­er pro­ject areas should be clearer.

  10. The Com­mit­tee is invited to con­sider the cur­rent cov­er­age of the risk registers as set out in the Annexes. The Committee’s views on the cur­rent status of the risk registers are welcomed.

Louise Allen louiseallen@​cairngorms.​co.​uk 03 June 2026