Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with an update on the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 16 September 2025
Date : 09 December 2025
Location : online
Trauma-Informed Implementation
Whilst examples of trauma-informed practice and processes already exist and are embedded within Police Scotland, further work is underway to build on and enhance our trauma-informed approach.
Work is progressing across a number of areas of the organisation including:
• Enhancing and ensuring alignment across existing training, and developing and introducing new training, including ongoing work to roll out the NES trauma-informed and trauma-skilled e-modules on Moodle and the development of a trauma-enhanced training pilot.
• Understanding and learning from lived experience and feedback shared by our workforce and the communities we serve as we shape our trauma-informed approach. Working closely with Insight & Engagement colleagues to review existing insights and explore new feedback loops and engagement opportunities.
• Working closely with the Health & Wellbeing Team to ensure our workstreams are aligned, recognising the trauma experienced among our workforce and ensuring our people are appropriately supported.
• Raising awareness of trauma-informed practice within policing, providing inputs at events and conferences, and working closely with the corporate communications team to share messaging with our workforce.
• Developing a guidance document to support business areas to write and review policy through a trauma-informed lens.
