Report Summary
This report provides members of the People Committee with oversight of the Health and Wellbeing Programme approach and action plan moving forward.
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Meeting
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People Committee - 29 August 2024
Date : 29 August 2024
Location : Online
Background
Our recently published People Strategy 2024-27 highlights the importance of officer and staff wellbeing throughout, and its first strategic objective is to prioritise wellbeing and keep our people safe, protected, and well-equipped. Under this objective, the strategy acknowledges the challenging nature of policing and the potential impact on health and wellbeing particularly mental health, prompting the need to prioritise the ‘complete wellbeing’ of the workforce. The desire for alignment around wellbeing is also evident in the People Strategy Implementation Plan, which commits to having “a coordinated approach to health, safety and wellbeing which meets the full needs of our people”.
This paper aims to provide some background to the approach we propose to take with the health and wellbeing programme and outline a proposed health and wellbeing action plan. The recent independent review of Police Scotland’s Health and Wellbeing Framework and the HMICS Frontline Focus – Wellbeing Inspection have provided us with a strategic focus and act as the foundations of the proposed approach and action plan.
