Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority with annual sight of relevant reports from the People Committee in relation to workforce data, wellbeing, health and safety and year one implementation plans for the People Strategy and Strategic Workforce Plans (SWP).
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Meeting
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Meeting of the Scottish Police Authority - 26 June 2025
Date : 26 June 2025
Location : Caledonian Suite, COSLA, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH
Background
The Police Authority approved both the ‘People Strategy 2024-2027’ and ‘Strategic Workforce Plan 2024-2027’ on 30 November 2023. Both the People Strategy and Strategic Workforce Plan (SWP) had comprehensive implementation plans to ensure focus on the actions, milestones and timelines for delivery of commitments.
On 30 May 2024, the People Committee received an update on year one priorities for the delivery of these plans with a recognition and commitment for future work to integrate wider workforce related strategies, plans, recommendations into the implementation plan.
On 29 May 2025, year one closure reports for both plans were presented providing members with a year-end status and update for all activities articulated in the year one plans.
Our plans continue to be developed to consider and support:
• The three-year service and organisational transformation programme
• Streamlining of activity across Policing Together, People Strategy and SWP
• The need for future iterations of the SWP
• Updated Equality Outcomes (published in April 2025)
• Responses to audits/inspections
• The starting point of the organisation’s data and evidence-led analysis.
Throughout this year, Police Scotland and SPA have continued to develop a set of reporting principles that will support improved insights and evidence within our workforce reporting.
We have taken a phased approach to developing our workforce data, measures and insights with a view to adopting a revised reporting approach from November 2025. Our intention is to produce a series of thematic strategic reports with a focus on ensuring they are streamlined; outcome focused and provide clearer data and evidence.
A pilot thematic report on recruitment, promotion and succession planning activity was presented to People Committee on 25 February 2025. Two further thematic reports covering ‘learning, training and development, leadership and talent’ and ‘health, safety and wellbeing’ are being developed for presentation to People Committee on 28 August 2025.
A detailed schedule of thematic reporting for financial year 2025/26 has been developed and this work will also consider improved approaches to annual reporting to the Authority Board. As this work progresses this year’s annual update includes a series of end of year reports provided to the People Committee in May 2025. The intention of this approach is to give the Authority Board a level of understanding and appreciation of the work progressing via the People Committee.
