Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority People Committee with an an update on the Police Scotland workforce as at Q3 of financial year 2024/25. This was presented for discussion at the meeting on 25 February 2025.
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Meeting
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People Committee - 25 February 2025
Date : 25 February 2025
Location : Online
Next Steps
The first annual Fair Work assessment set out a need to ensure the People Strategy/SWP was supported with outcome focused measures/KPIs to better enable outcome focused reporting and an evidence-based approach to prioritisation.
Positively, the initial iteration of the dashboards has been developed to align measures to the strategic outcomes within the People Strategy and SWP and includes a greater focus on analysis and insight than the previous approach to reporting of workforce data. See Appendix A.
As part of an iterative approach to improvement there is an ongoing focus on the need to:
• ensure full alignment between the dashboards and the workforce metrics contained within the Performance Framework, and that measures reported are the best fit for purpose,
• ensure other sources of evidence are considered alongside the workforce metrics (i.e. the need to align survey results to strategic outcomes),
• build capacity and capability within People and Development to support continuous improvement in the translation of data/evidence into meaningful insight and proposed action,
• outline and develop plans to address system related gaps/barriers preventing effective and efficient outcome focused measurement and reporting.
This work is important because it will allow for the ability to assess the extent activity is having on the desired impact, therefore allowing for an evidence-based assessment of policing’s delivery of Fair Work.
Work is ongoing to reset People Committee reporting. A briefing session with Members took place on 27 January 2025 regarding reset principles, a thematic reporting approach, evolution of these strategic dashboards, the transitional approach and a reset workplan. Work to deliver the action request PC – 20240530- 001 that “future reports build on improved insight reporting and provide disaggregated data for specific areas to allow further analysis of how individual business areas compare with the entire organisation. List of areas for future focus to be considered by the committee” will be completed as per the reset principles and timeframes being progressed.
