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
Workforce Data
The fourth iteration of Workforce Dashboards (Appendix C) were presented to People Committee on 29 May 2025. These have been developed with the key focus of aligning relevant measures to the People Strategy objectives and SWP outcomes. As part of an iterative approach, greater emphasis has been placed on outcome focused analysis and insight to ensure the ability to report and track progress and impact.The report updates against activity detailed in our year one People Strategy and SWP implementation plans. Much of the activity also aligns to the Annual Police Plan, People and Performance Plan and Policing Together Strategy implementation plan.
We are also working to ensure full alignment between the dashboards and workforce metrics contained within the Performance Framework and to seek to address system related gaps/barriers preventing effective and efficient outcome focused measurement and reporting.
The first annual Fair Work assessment set out a need to ensure the People Strategy/SWP was supported with outcome focused measures/KPIs to better enable outcome focused reporting and an evidence-based approach to prioritisation.
As part of our iterative approach to improvement there is an ongoing focus on:
• ensuring full alignment between the dashboards and the workforce metrics contained within the Performance Framework, and that measures reported are the best fit for purpose,
• ensuring other sources of evidence are considered alongside the workforce metrics (i.e. the need to align survey results to strategic outcomes),
• building capacity and capability within People and Development to support continuous improvement in the translation of data/evidence into meaningful insight and proposed action,
• outlining and developing plans to address system related gaps/barriers preventing effective and efficient outcome focused measurement and reporting.
