Report Summary
This report provides members of the People Committee with an overview of recent work to streamline the Policing Together (PT) governance structure and outline progress towards refreshing the vision and 4 pillars of Policing Together.
In addition, the paper provides an overview of engagement with stakeholders and staff associations and explains how this engagement informs PT activity.
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Meeting
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People Committee - 29 August 2024
Date : 29 August 2024
Location : Online
Policing together governance refresh
There is a need to streamline strategic oversight of PT to drive EDI priorities and to re-align the internal governance structures with the SPA PT Oversight Group.
Appendix A provides a visual of the new governance structure.
A significant change will be the renaming and updated remit of the Performance and Impact Group. It will be renamed the Tasking and Performance Group and will have the additional responsibility for co-ordinating and tasking based on reports from key business areas on progress towards milestone, issues, barriers, and potential solutions.
To date, Police Scotland’s work on Sex Equality and Tackling Misogyny (SE&TM), although aligned to PT, has been delivered separately. This has resulted in a reduced level of collaboration in delivery of strategic outcomes. It has been agreed that SE&TM will now fall under the wider PT framework. The SE&TM Delivery Group will report to the Tasking and Performance Group, providing a unified approach. The Police Scotland Culture dashboard under development will strengthen this alignment further with a shared set of data providing a clear understanding of issues and the collective impact of activity.
A review of all Terms of Reference (TOR) within the governance structure will take place ahead of the next governance cycle. A final suite of documents will contain the updated governance and TOR’S and the PT vision, pillars and commitments aligned to a communications strategy which will be developed.
