National Public Protection Leadership Group: workplan

Priority 2: Enhancing our culture of learning through independent scrutiny and inspection

Rationale for inclusion in workplan: Stakeholders have asked that we have a proportionate inspection system, where the emphasis is on partnership’s knowing themselves and planning their own improvement. Wide recognition of the need to balance between self-evaluation and external scrutiny and the accountability for implementation of inspection recommendations. Importance of considering what the future model for inspection could look like, and potential concerns around what might be involved with a public protection approach.

Relevant extract from NPPLG term of reference: Contribute to the opportunity of a more joined up, public protection approach to inspection, improvement and implementation support.

NPPLG sponsor: Jackie Irvine and TBC

Objective of NPPLG workstream: To support a discussion on what a future model of inspection, that best supports improvement, at a local and national level might look like. And to support discussions to ensure that we have a system of learning embedded in that approach.

Priorities for the NPPLG Workstream ^[1]

Short term priority

TBC by Scrutiny, Inspection, Assurance and Regulatory Advisory Group.

Carry out a literature review of self-evaluation frameworks that are in place/in development and consider what a public protection self-evaluation framework might look like. (This work will be undertaken by the NPPLG in addition to the work of the Scrutiny, Inspection, Assurance and Regulation Subgroup)

Medium term priority

As above.

Long term priority

As above

Establish a new NPPLG Sub group

No, this work will be led by the Scrutiny, Inspection, Assurance and Regulatory Advisory Group.

Propose that it reports regularly to the NPPLG with the NPPLG acting as a critical friend.

Complementary work being progressed by existing groups now in the ambit of NPPLG

Newly established Scrutiny, Inspection, Assurance and Regulatory Advisory Group, chaired by Craig Naylor HMICS. This group sits independently of NPPLG and will keep the NPPLG updated on its work as appropriate, including through the sharing of minutes of its meetings.

Priorities for the group:

• Process for collating and sharing national themes across Public Protection.
• Consider the development of a future model of inspection - alternative more streamlined options for strategic PP inspection.

Work that will not sit under the NPPLG but will be of interest/ relevance:

• Work in relation to the IRISR recommendations.

Complementary work being progressed through local COG’s which we want to support with a view to supporting the spreading of innovation

Phase 2 of the joint inspection of adult support and protection (JIASP) programme has commenced. This is underpinned by the drive to blend scrutiny with improvement through close collaboration with, and input from adult protection partnerships.

Joint inspection partners including the Care Inspectorate, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Education Scotland and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland are considering work which will explore and highlight innovative early intervention and prevention practice being deployed across Scotland.

We are seeking to work with up to a maximum of 11 partnerships on a voluntary basis and propose to jointly undertake a programme of supported self-evaluation using quality indicator (5.7), set out in the recently published Quality Improvement Framework (QIF). The focus of this work includes core themes relating to escalation of risk management, early intervention, and prevention, convening of formal multi-agency discussions, and trauma-informed approaches.