Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority's Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee with an overview of progress against the SPA Corporate Strategy for 2024/25, and open recommendations from all SPA corporate audit and inspection activity.
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Meeting
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Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee - 6 February 2025
Date : 06 February 2025
Location : online
Report detail
BACKGROUND
The SPA Corporate Strategy 2023-26 and supporting Implementation Plan was approved by the Board in March 2023. The 2024-25 Delivery Plan underpins the Strategy with 15 activities and 48 actions tracked to support performance reporting.
Progress against completion of the corporate strategy is reported to ARAC on a quarterly basis.
Progress against audit and inspection recommendations are routinely reported to ARAC, these are tracked through an action tracking software tool called 4Action.
In addition, other committees may also consider specific updates on progress where relevant to their terms of reference.
Corporate strategy progress (Appendix A)
A total of 241 milestones have been identified throughout 2024/25 that enable tracking towards delivery of the 15 activities and 48 actions.
In Q3 2024/25, 35 corporate strategy milestones were due to be achieved; 27 of these milestones were achieved (77%). Re-profiled work and a forward look are summarised in Appendix A.
Audit & inspections recommendations progress (Appendix B)
Below is a summary of changes since the last report to ARAC:-
•Two HMICS recommendations have been closed
oOne recommendation from the Assurance Review of Police Scotland Strategic Workforce Planning; and
oOne recommendation from the Assurance review of Police Scotland demand analysis and management.
Since the last report to ARAC HMICS published the results of the Thematic inspection of road policing in Scotland in which there was one joint recommendation for SPA Corporate.
Internal Audit also published their Risk Management Internal Audit report capturing 9 recommendations. One of these recommendations has been successfully closed.
In summary since last ARAC reporting in total 10 new audit recommendations have been identified with 3 recommendations closing. We currently have 23 open recommendations.
