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Agenda: 23 September 2025

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Forestry Commission executive board 132nd meeting, Tuesday September 23 2025, 14:00–17:00 in person at Bristol and via MS Teams.

1. Attendees

Richard Stanford (Chair)
Anna Brown
Amanda Grist
Tristram Hilborn
Derrick Osgood
James Pendlebury
Paula Rice
Mike Seddon
Becky Rhodes (observer)

Corporate Governance Manager (Forestry Commission risk register and Government Internal Audit Agency audit actions tracker)
Director of Engineering (travel policy)
Head of Health and Safety and Technical Training (health and safety)
Head of Performance (corporate plan)
Data Protection Officer (data protection)
Julia Lovell (minute secretary)

2. Agenda

  1. Welcome and introductions (5 mins) – Richard Stanford.
  2. Minutes of the executive board, 30 June 2025 (5 mins) – Richard Stanford.
  3. Synergy/Enterprise Resource Planning decision (45 mins) – Derrick Osgood, Amanda Grist and Paula Rice.
  4. Health and safety update (5 mins) – Head of Health and Safety and Technical Training.
  5. Mandatory training update (5 mins) – Head of Health and Safety and Technical Training.
  6. Government Internal Audit Agency action tracker update (5 mins) – Derrick Osgood.
  7. Forestry Commission strategic risk register review (15 mins) – Derrick Osgood.
  8. Corporate plan performance update (10 mins) – Head of Performance.
  9. Forestry Commission finance update (10 mins) – Derrick Osgood.

Comfort break

15:35 (5 mins)

10. HR/people board update (40 mins) – Amanda Grist, Mike Seddon and Richard Stanford:

  • report, including approval of terms of reference (10 mins)
  • pay update (10 mins)
  • tier 1 staff council (10 mins)
  • tactics (10 mins)

11. Travel policy decision (10 mins) – Director of Engineering.
12. Safeguarding PPG update (5 mins) – Safeguarding Technical Advisor.
13. Woodland Water Code update (5 mins) – Science Group Leader.
14. Data protection update (5 mins) – Data Protection Officer.
15. Any other business (5 mins).

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