MAPPA Annual Report 2024
Business priorities - Lanarkshire MAPPA 2024/2025
The multi-agency members of the Lanarkshire Management Operational Group (MOG) and Strategic Oversight Group (SOG) worked collaboratively to agree the following business priorities to address the key issues for the period 2024/25.
High Level Outcomes
- Learning from a range of sources, including research, local quality assurance activity, practice experience, performance information, and significant case reviews informs priority setting, policy and practice developments.
- Evidence informed changes to policy and practice are introduced, monitored and evaluated, and improve the safety and wellbeing of individuals and our communities.
- Evidence informed, up to date procedures, protocols and guidance are available in relation to core public protection business and related priority issues, these are implemented effectively and impact on practice and outcomes.
- The collective Lanarkshire MAPPA workforce is competent and confident in their individual, managerial and support roles to improve the safety and wellbeing of individuals and our communities.
- Relevant, up to date public information is available in a range of accessible and engaging formats to individuals and communities across Lanarkshire.
- The views of victims and/or their families are taken into account in relation to issues that affect them directly and in policy and practice development.
- Collaboration and co-operation between the SOG and other national and local multi-agency partnerships is effective.
- National strategy and policy developments inform SOG activity.
- Local leadership of public protection is effective in driving improvements in public protection practice and in improving outcomes for individuals and our communities.
| Action | Lead | Evidence measure | Target/review completion date | Progress/outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consider and prepare for MAPPS implementation | Training sub-group |
Multi-agency group to consider national MAPPS implementation and resulting local issues, i.e. training requirements, contingency arrangements, capacity of services etc |
March 2025 | On track for completion date |
| Undertake public protection multi-disciplinary MAPPA Audit of Category 3 cases | MAPPA Co-ordinator | Conduct multi-agency and public protection multi-disciplinary (CP, ASP, VAWG etc) audit on sample of MAPPA Category 3 cases, including those subject to a Supervised Release Order | March 2025 | On track for completion date |
| Seek assistance from RMA to conduct sample of risk assessments and re-offending rates for over 60 and under 30 year-olds subject to MAPPA | MOG task group |
Consider resource requirements for each cohort. Should be based on risk, not age. Check if RMA Literature Review assists/mentions anything about age profile. C-Port assessment may be instructive/used |
March 2025 | On track for completion date |
| Capacity monitoring group to be established to consider and evaluate the volume of MAPPA cases locally | Training sub-group | Establish SLWG to consider implications of continued increase in volume of offenders, including those subject to statutory supervision versus SONR only, resourcing, budgets, and impact on services and revise processes accordingly | March 2025 | On track for completion date |
- Introduction
- What is MAPPA and how does it operate in Lanarkshire?
- Progress report on business plan 2023/2024
- Statistical information (1)
- Business priorities - Lanarkshire MAPPA 2024/2025