Report Summary
This report provides members of the Forensic Services Committee with an overview of Forensic Services Framework Refresh.
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Meeting
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Forensic Services Committee - 3 February 2025
Date : 03 February 2025
Location : Online
Updates to the Forensic Services Performance Framework
The Forensic Services Performance Framework 2023-24 was approved at the Forensic Services Committee on Monday 30th October.
The key updates to the refreshed document are:
- Introduction
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion section
- Our approach to Performance Management
- Additional evidence included in –
- Outcome 1, Culture and Behaviours. For example, reference to Corporate Parenting, Strategic Enablers and Daily Director Reports for incidents of note.
- Outcome 2, Building our services to reflect the new capability structure implemented as part of the Operating Model transition. Now includes Strategic workforce planning, Value of Forensic Science, and Drug Driving Long Term Sustainable Model.
- Outcome 3, addition of Memorandum of Understanding for Drug Driving, update to financial efficiency to include adherence to a yearly plan, and a commitment to develop an Ethical Decision Framework.
- Outcome 4, additional evidence within the partnership working section with the addition of the Strategic Workforce plan, HMICS Inspections, Scottish Biometrics Commissioner audits and BDO Audit and assurance activities. In addition, the introduction of the JNCC Sub-group.
Approval is sought from the Forensic Services Committee on the updated document.
The intention is that, once approved, progress will be reported through the Forensic Performance Operational Group (FPOG), Forensic Performance Improvement Group (FPIG) and Forensic Services Committee, and other groups as appropriate
