Working in Partnership

The National Trauma Transformation Programme (NTTP) created by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in partnership with Scottish Government and COSLA has published a Roadmap for Creating Trauma-Informed and Responsive Change.

This outlines nine key drivers and six main stages which are essential for embedding and sustaining trauma-informed practice. The work of the NTTP has been carried out in partnership with the Scottish Government to help inform and support the Scottish Workforce to become trauma informed.

The nine key drivers are:

Organisational culture
Leadership
Staff care, support and wellbeing
Feedback loops
Sharing of power with people with lived experience of trauma
Staff knowledge, skills, confidence and capacity
Policies and processes
Budget
Service design and delivery

The six main stages are:

Creating the right conditions – long-term executive commitment
Understanding experiences of our organisation, systems and how we currently work – identify strengths and opportunities for improvement
Developing our aims – collaboratively develop a plan to support vision
Implement and test change – through training and support
Consolidate change across our organisation, systems and practice – to support long-term sustainability and utilise feedback loops
Ensuring sustainability – create an improvement cycle and ensure TIP is inherent within the organisation

In May 2023, NES published the Trauma-Informed Justice Knowledge and Skills Framework. The framework applies to all justice workers including leaders and managers. It recognises that people working in different roles will need different trauma-informed knowledge and skills. The framework is cumulative and defines practice based on the nature and type of workforce roles.

Police Scotland is a key partner in the Trauma-Informed workstream of the Victims’ Task Force. We are working with other justice partners to create and deliver a collaborative plan to embed trauma-informed practice in our justice sector and in line with the NTTP. Supported by the Scottish Government, this workstream has developed a partnership wide monitoring and reporting template which will support all partners in planning, monitoring and reporting progress toward becoming a trauma-informed organisation. The template sets out activities and outcomes in the short, medium and long term and is derived from the Trauma-Informed Justice Knowledge and Skills Framework and the Roadmap for creating trauma-informed and responsive change. It is expected that this will provide a co-ordinated and overarching position which will also be used to form the basis of a progress update to the Victims’ Taskforce.