Partner Engagement

Engagement with partners and stakeholders is critical to the success of PPDP. This has commenced and remains ongoing. It is important that we engage at both a strategic and tactical level to ensure we understand our partnership approach. Where relevant, they can advocate for those they represent. This will allow us to triangulate on information we have already gathered to help build a rich picture from end to end. Furthermore, if we aspire to truly transform the entire PP approach in Scotland we cannot do it alone and have to influence our partners for collective change.

PPDP has been socialised around various existing multi-agency structures as well as informal meetings and written communication. Formal engagement to gather views commenced in June 2023 at the VAWG Strategic Engagement Forum (SEF) which has been followed up with invites to those members for additional sessions. This has been extended to other partners such as Children 1st, Barnardos, and Abused Men in Scotland recognising that the impact of PP stretches beyond VAWG and that it is critical we engage with all key and interested partners. In addition to the VAWG SEF, it is the intention that PPDP will engage with Your Police SEF (once established) and discussions are ongoing to engage directly with COLSA and SOLACE who also are important partners in our PP response.

Two Practitioner workshops took place on 25th and 26th July 2023 at the Scottish Police College, aiming to capture the views of those partners working on the frontline with Police to deliver PP services, it is hoped that this will provide a different perspective to those of strategic partners.