Members and Secretariat

The Group will be chaired by an Authority Member and be Authority Member led. Each meeting will be attended by at least two Authority Members, including the Chair of the Oversight Group.
Attendees

Meetings will be attended by a senior Executive member from Police Scotland, the SPA Executive Team, and SPA Forensic Services.

HMICS will be invited to attend regularly as an observer.

Representatives from Authority Committees, HMICS and other organisations or groups may be invited to attend to inform the Group’s considerations, at the discretion of the Chair.
Secretariat

Secretariat support will be provided by the SPA Governance Support Team.

Meetings will be held four times per year. This may be supplemented by additional meetings or deep dive thematic sessions, at the discretion of the Chair.

A record of the meeting and action log will be produced and circulated to Group attendees following each meeting.

Written summary reports from meetings will be submitted by the Oversight Group's Chair to each subsequent scheduled public meeting of the Authority.

The Group may bring specific issues to the attention of other Committees of the Authority where appropriate; and Authority Committees may bring relevant business to the Group’s attention.

The Group will meet for a period of not less than 36 months, and until the Authority is content that progress and improvement against agreed tests of change have been sufficiently evidenced, and delivery against strategic objectives is on track and mainstreamed into strategic and operational plans and policies.