Our board papers for March 2021.
The minutes for this meeting are now available.
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RoS Board Agenda
Landscape of Board involvement
The purpose of this paper is to update the Board on the history of Board involvement in key activities, the maturity of key strategies to date and to illustrate when the Board can expect further discussions on key activities in the future.
Landscape of Board involvement
EDI strategy update
The purpose of this paper is to summarise the RoS management team’s current activities and priorities with regard to meeting our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion objectives.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy
Engagement analysis
The purpose of this paper is to outline the engagement analysis that has taken place on the back of engagement activities that took place in 2020 including the annual Civil Service People Survey and the Interim Investors in People assessment. The paper also outlines the next steps RoS will take based on the results.
Invest in Our People workshop
The purpose of this paper is to outline the approach of the Invest in Our People Deep Dive session with the Board. It includes an overview of the session structure, questions for the Board to consider in advance, and pre-reading material.
Corporate plan
The purpose of this paper is to provide RoS Board with the final draft of the RoS Corporate Plan for 2021 to 2026, following the absorption of changes suggested by the NXDs and discussed at EMT on 25 February 2021
Corporate plan Board cover paper
Financial delegations 2021
The purpose of this paper is to undertake the annual review of the financial delegations in operation. It covers the statutory authority for the keeper making payments that are legally required in the exercise of her functions. It sets out how the financial authority is delegated throughout RoS and the relevant limits that apply.
Review of KPI data
Productivity update
A significant challenge during this financial year, has been to achieve good levels of productivity, whilst teams have been responding to an unpredictable housing market and having to work remotely. This paper summarises the challenge and discusses how we are addressing it.
Audit & Risk Committee minutes (November 2020)
Risk update
The purpose of this paper is to provide RoS Board with an update on the Key Risk Register (KRR) and assurance framework 2020-25 following EMT and Audit & Risk Committee (ARC) reviews and continuous Key Risk Owner (KRO) reviews. The paper supports the board in fulfilling its role to provide strategic advice to the Keeper for its focus on setting a framework of prudent and effective controls that enables risk to be assessed and managed
Transition project update
The purpose of this paper is to provide RoS Board with a progress update on the Transition project, which was formed at the beginning of May 2020 in response to the COVID-19 impact.
Board minutes November 2020
Action log
A summary of the ongoing RoS Board actions
Governance Risk Discussion Tracker
The purpose of this paper is to provide the RoS Board with sight of risk discussions that have taken place at the Board and Audit and Risk Committee meetings for the financial year 2020 - 2021, ensuring all risks are discussed appropriately.
Governance Risk Discussion Tracker
Data strategy update
For over 400 years, data in all its forms has underpinned RoS core purpose of Registration. As the needs of our citizens change, RoS needs a collaborative, concise and transparent data strategy to help safely deliver those needs. This draft paper provides a strategy and framework to unlock, link and reuses our existing data assets with the goal of restructuring it in ways to support our future needs. It will be used to support Board discussion and be refined for signoff in a future board.
Areas of concern
This paper seeks Board views on Registers of Scotland’s current organisational health and individual views on areas of greatest concern.