Report detail

The SPA Corporate Strategy 2023-26 and supporting Implementation Plan was approved by the Board in March 2023. The 2025-26 Delivery Plan underpins the Strategy with 17 activities and 44 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 229 milestones have been identified throughout 2025/26 that enable tracking towards delivery of the 17 activities and 44 actions.

In Q1 2025/26, 24 corporate strategy milestones were due to be achieved; 17 of these milestones were achieved (71%). 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: -

• In total 2 HMICS recommendations have been successfully closed

o Recommendation 7 arising from the Assurance Review of Police Scotland Strategic Workforce Planning, and
o Recommendation 3 arising from the Assurance Review of Police Scotland Contact Assessment Model

• No new recommendations have been identified.

An additional slide has been included to demonstrate the progress being made by SPA Corporate with addressing the 17 areas for development identified by HMICS through the Strategic review of the Scottish Police Authority completed in 2024.