Scottish Forestry make it clear in their compliance statement that ‘‘these plans need to strengthen the actions relating to paper and digital records.’’ Developing local BCPs is identified as a further development and Scottish Forestry. Business continuity planning work will be developed through a Business Resilience Workshop and plans for this workshop will be discussed in more detail initially with the Head of Executive Office in September 2021.
The Keeper must be confident staff have access to business continuity arrangements. Scottish Forestry intend to make BCPs available to staff on the Saltire intranet site. Once this action has been completed the Keeper can be updated through the Progress Update Review (PUR) mechanism.
Identifying vital paper records and scanning them is noted in the Screenshot from Corporate Business Continuity Plan provided to the Keeper. It states ‘‘Specific vital records have not been identified. Rather, ensuring remote access has been identified as a priority; as well as a shift to digital files and ways of working such as digital signatures.’’ Work being undertaken to develop an IAR (see Element 4) will include the identification of core business records.
Scottish Forestry have identified work to improve their Business Continuity arrangements around local BCPs, staff access to BCPs and the identification of core business records.
The Keeper can agree this element on an ‘improvement model’ basis as Scottish Forestry have acknowledged limitations in provision around business continuity arrangements and have identified that work is required to improve this. This agreement is dependent of the Keeper being notified of progress to close this gap in provision.
