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Appendix 2 - Summary of policing’s Best Value self-assessments Scottish
Best Value self-assessments have shown improved overall compliance; increasing from 51 per cent compliance for 2022/23 to 92 per cent for 2024/25 across the seven themes set out in Ministerial guidance (Appendix 1, page 39).
In the 2024/25 Best Value self-assessment, SPA identified ten actions in four themes where there is partial compliance and 25 areas for improvement where there is full compliance.
For its first Best Value self-assessment, 2024/25, Forensic Services measured compliance against ‘Working with Communities’ but did not assess compliance against ‘Performance Management’.
Actions have been identified across 30 indicators and in all themes except partnership and collaborative working where relevant indicators are considered compliant.
In its first Best Value self-assessment, 2024/25, Police Scotland undertook a review of activities against the seven Best Value themes.
It did not rate compliance against each theme. It identified five areas for further improvement:
- strategic workforce planning
- medium-term financial planning
- organisational learning
- coordinating improvement and demonstrating the benefits being realised in its improvement journey
- managing the individual performance of all employees.
Source: SPA, Forensic Services and Police Scotland Best Value self-assessments, 2025