MAPPA Annual Report 2023

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 2023/24.

High Level Outcomes

1. 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.
2. Evidence informed changes to policy and practice are introduced, monitored and evaluated, and improve the safety and wellbeing of individuals and our communities.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Relevant, up to date public information is available in a range of accessible and engaging formats to individuals and communities across Lanarkshire.
6. 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.
7. Collaboration and co-operation between the SOG and other national and local multi-agency partnerships is effective.
8. National strategy and policy developments inform SOG activity.
9. Local leadership of public protection is effective in driving improvements in public protection practice and in improving outcomes for individuals and our communities.