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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
Paper 6 15/05/09 

CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 


FOR INFORMATION 


Title: Corporate Plan Monitoring 

Prepared by: David Cameron, Head of Corporate Services 

Purpose 

To present the results of the third update on progress against organisational 
objectives on the basis of the revised corporate plan monitoring framework. 

Recommendations 

a) The Board is asked to note the report, and to raise any questions on the 
update provided. 

Executive Summary 

The Board received a paper setting out the revised Corporate Plan 
monitoring framework at its meeting in September. This paper presents the 
results of the third update on progress against organisational objectives on 
the basis of this framework. 

The latest update of performance against corporate objectives is presented 
at Annex 1 to this paper. Annex 1 sets out each of the 46 achievements 
agreed in the Corporate Plan, together with the associated milestone, where 
applicable, which gives a sense of progress intended by the end of this 
financial and operational plan year, at 31 March 2009. A commentary on 
current performance is also presented. 

No individual achievements are highlighted for specific note by the Board at 
the end of the first year in the process of securing Corporate Plan 
achievements by March 2011. None of the 46 achievements are currently 
assessed as red, which would indicate significant risk of not being delivered 
within the Corporate Plan period. 

All Corporate Plan achievements are assessed either as “green” – and should 
be achieved with existing levels of forecast resource and time allocation – or 
“amber”, where the achievement is still deliverable by 2011 although likely to 
require additional allocation of staff time and/or resource. In a number of 


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cases, achievements are assessed as amber and at some increased risk of 
non-delivery as a result of current uncertainty over work to be delivered by 
key partners. 

It is worth noting that, while no individual achievements are highlighted for 
particular note by the Board, there are areas of the Corporate Plan where 
there is a preponderance of achievements highlighted as amber at the end 
of the first year. Integrating public support for land management to deliver 
public benefits has all three of the achievements in this area highlighted as 
amber. Also, a majority of the achievements falling under both “making 
tourism and business more sustainable” and in “raising awareness of the 
National Park” are currently assessed as amber and in need of further 
investment of time and / or financial resources. 

The level of amber assessments in these areas indicates that additional 
management attention is required in order to address current issues. The 
Management Team will continue to use the Corporate Plan monitoring 
information to assess what remedial action may be required to address 
delivery issues and seek to ensure that Corporate Plan achievements are 
delivered as far as possible by 31 March 2011. 

A number of the “milestone” targets set for achievement by March 2009 
across the range of corporate plan achievements are assessed as either 
partly delivered or not delivered at the year-end. Generally, while some of 
these year-end milestones have not been achieved or only achieved in part, 
responsible officers believe that the position can be recovered over the 
remaining period of time prior to the end of the Corporate Plan to ensure the 
overall achievements can be secured. 

At this stage in the Corporate Plan period, officers believe there is sufficient 
time to recover the situation on order to deliver the three-year corporate 
plan achievements by 2011. 

The Authority’s balanced scorecard monitoring tool is not presented at this 
time. There has not been sufficient time available following year end to 
adequately assess some of the KPIs. This information will be issued when it is 
available. 

DAVID CAMERON 
6 May 2009 

davidcameron@cairngorms.co.uk