Ms Carol Coad:

When they started looking at the outdoor recreation officer role, they did come to me and ask me to help put the role profile together. I gave them my role profile and said I thought that it works pretty well, and there you go. It has changed a fair bit in that ORIS is not part of that RRO role profile, which I understand because some counties have different mechanisms to deliver the ORIS schemes. The fact that we discuss ORIS and that we short-list those projects around that table with all the landowning agencies is what makes them such a success because there is buy-in from everybody involved. It is pulled away from the local authority, although obviously they sit at the table because it is their money and their projects, and they are very happy to work in collaboration with all the other agencies around the table. There is not a plan to have my position in each county. There is a plan to have the outdoor recreation officer but that is at a community development officer level, which is very much around participation and rolling out programmes rather than strategic decisions and influence.