Report Summary
This report provides members of the Forensic Services Committee with an overview of Forensic Services Change Programme Update.
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Meeting
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Forensic Services Committee - 3 February 2025
Date : 03 February 2025
Location : Online
Operating Model
We remain committed to implementation of our new operating model, as far as possible within financial constraints, seeking to minimise impact to our people as far as possible whilst maintaining service delivery.
- Resource, and financial challenges, have impacted upon the pace of implementation, however, we continue to make progress with our phased approach for transitioning to our new operating model.
- Mixed discipline reporting teams now established at all sites, creating the framework for optimisation of demand and resource management across a range of casework.
- Phase 4 planning has now commenced. Activity will include the establishment of specific workstreams to deliver timeliness & efficiency gains through the integration of our new search & recovery lab capability at Aberdeen and Edinburgh as well as reviewing the flow of Drugs casework across the new operating model.
- Police Scotland Portfolio Assurance Team have now completed their Health Check review of the Operating Model project. The review gave an overall green / amber assessment for the project and recognised the significant progress which has been made since the reallocation of critical portfolio resource to the FS Change Programme.
- Work to finalise the transition approach and impact assessment for the integration of Postmortem Toxicology colleagues continues. Positive engagement with union colleagues and the team remains a priority as we navigate through the formal consultation process.
