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 2023/24; 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 2024
Date : 06 February 2024
Location : online
Further detail
Corporate strategy progress (Appendix A)
In Q3 2023/24 103 corporate strategy milestones were due to be achieved; 65 of these milestones were achieved (63%). Deliverability of the remainder of the year one implementation plan continues to be reviewed and assessed taking cognisance of available resources.
Overall, 75% of milestones due to complete in Q1-Q3 were completed by the scheduled target date (219 of 292). This represents good progress given resource pressures.
As reported to the previous ARAC, during Q2 there was an exercise completed to determine the deliverability of some of the milestones given known and anticipated resource challenges. Appendix A provides full details of all milestones delayed or re-phased within the quarter.
Audit & inspections recommendations progress (Appendix B)
Since the last report to ARAC there has been five new audit recommendations identified for SPA Corporate and two recommendations that were proposed for closure to HMICS that have been re-opened.
In October 2023 HMICS published their Thematic review of policing Mental Health in Scotland with a total of 14 recommendations. Three are for SPA and Police Scotland to address jointly.
In December 2023 HMICS published their Thematic Inspection of Organisational Culture in Police Scotland with a total of 11 recommendations. Two are for SPA and Police Scotland to address jointly.