CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee Paper 1 | 06/09/19

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: INTERN­AL AUDIT REVIEW: LEAD­ER ADMIN­IS­TRA­TION REVIEW

Pre­pared by: CLAIRE ROBERTSON, BDO TONY BAR­RIE, BDO

Pur­pose

To present the intern­al auditor’s LEAD­ER Admin­is­tra­tion Review.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Audit & Risk Com­mit­tee is asked to: a) Con­sider the intern­al auditor’s findings.

Exec­ut­ive Summary

1. As part of the 2019 – 20 Intern­al Audit plan, it was agreed that Intern­al Audit would assess the pro­cesses in place to ensure com­pli­ance with the require­ments of the Ser­vice Level Agree­ment (SLA) for the Lead­er Pro­gramme. The full report of the review is attached at Annex 1 to this paper.

2. No recom­mend­a­tions for improve­ment actions were raised by the intern­al auditors.

3. Both design and oper­a­tion­al effect­ive­ness of the Authority’s LEAD­ER Admin­is­tra­tion Pro­cesses are graded as Substantial.

Danie Ral­ph, Fin­ance Man­ager 15 August, 2019 danielralph@​cairngorms.​co.​uk