MAPPA Annual Report 2025

Progress report on business plan 2024/25

This progress report is in response to the commitment detailed in the MAPPA Annual Report for 2024 that Lanarkshire MAPPA would address the following issues.

Action	Lead	Evidence measure	Target review/completion date	Progress outcome
Consider and prepare MAPPS implementation	Training sub-group	Multi-agency group to consider national MAPPS implementation and resulting local issues - training requirements, contingency arrangements, capacity of services etc	March 2025	Roadmap for National implementation of MAPPS revised by UK Government from 2024 to late 2027/28. Locally, engagement continues with SG and UKG, including participation in MAPPS Connectivity testing, UAT
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) audit on sample of MAPPA Category 3 cases, including those subject to a Supervised Release Order	March 2025	Completed January 2025 and report submitted to MOG and SOG
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 RMA Literature Review and C-Port risk assessment as these may be instructive/used	March 2025	Engagement with RMA ongoing. The RMA have intentions of doing work in this area and extending the analysis to all MAPPA regions and had discussions regarding this with National SOPU
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	Multi-agency training sub-group examined capacity issues and increase in volume of offenders and revised several areas to address existing resourcing and budget issues. This included changes to review periods for Level 1 cases, ERA process amendments and reviewing existing staffing arrangements to better suit future demands