MAPPA Annual Report 2025
Future business plan 2025/2026
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 2025/26.
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
Outcome/Priority
| Action | Lead | Evidence measure | Target review/completion date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor and implement terrorist / terrorism-risk offenders into MAPPA as per national guidance | SOG | Terrorist / terrorism-risk offenders incorporated into MAPPA and partner agencies aware of their responsibilities for management of these individuals | March 2026 |
| Ensure any training opportunities for managing terrorist / terrorism-risk offenders are maximised locally | MOG training sub-group | Staff from relevant partner agencies receive appropriate training for managing this cohort of MAPPA offenders | March 2026 |
| Undertake public protection multi-disciplinary MAPPA Audit of Category 1 offender cases | MAPPA Co-ordinator |
Conduct multi-agency and public protection multi-disciplinary (CP, ASP, VAWG) audit on sample of MAPPA Category 1 offender cases |
March 2026 |
| MAPPA National Performance Indicators to be reported in the Lanarkshire Annual Report and develop a performance framework for reporting these stats to PP COG’s on quarterly basis | MAPPA Co-ordinator | National Performance Indicators recorded in Lanarkshire Annual Report and local performance framework developed for reporting NPI’s to respective PP COG’s on a quarterly basis | March 2026 |
| Housing Strategic Plan to be updated to include MAPPA cases | SOG | Strategic Plan for Housing Services in SLC and NLC to be updated to include MAPPA cases | March 2026 |
| Update Lanarkshire Inter-Authority Housing Protocol to include local amendments to the ERA process and development of training opportunities | MOG training sub-group | Lanarkshire Inter-Authority Housing Protocol updated accordingly | Mach 2026 |
