Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 23
23
Accepted
We also heard evidence on the potential wider lessons which could be derived from this...
Recommendation
We also heard evidence on the potential wider lessons which could be derived from this programme, including learning that could inform how police forces recruit, train and deploy other personnel. The National Police Chiefs Council told us that lessons from the Programme had been used to review the recruitment processes used by all 43 police forces for Police Community Support Officers. This had enabled the programme to develop standardised recruitment messages to use in local force advertising campaigns, as well as building up standardised recruitment data and processes.35 30 C&AG’s report, Figure 11; para 3.3; Q32–33 31 Q 32; C&AG’s report, Figure 11 32 Qq 32–33 33 Public Accounts Committee - Twenty-First Report, Police Procurement, HC 115, Session 2013–14, 17 September 2013 paras 2, 5 34 HM Treasury, Treasury Minutes – Government responses on the Second, the Sixth, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth, the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth, the Twenty First, the Twenty Second and the Twenty Fourth Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2013–14, Cm 8744, November 2013 35 Q 84 14 The Police Uplift Programme 3 Future challenges Meeting final year targets
Government Response Summary
The Department will systematically capture and disseminate lessons from the Police Uplift Programme, producing a lessons learned report and a best practice document by August 2023.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
1. PAC conclusion: The Department has so far successfully met its objectives for the Programme. 1. PAC recommendation: The Department should systematically capture and disseminate lessons from what has worked with this programme to benefit its major programme portfolio and policing more widely. It should summarise and publish these lessons by April 2023 to support learning across government. 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: August 2023 1.2 As is good practice under the government project delivery framework, the Police Uplift Programme captures lessons following key activity and periodically. Some of these lessons have already been shared across policing, the Home Office and with other government departments. As the programme plans for closure it is preparing documentation that captures the lessons as part of closure reporting. 1.3 The sharing of lessons and what has worked well has been recognised by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), recommending that the programme produce a ‘best practice’ document that can be shared with the IPA and across government. The Home Office, with the programme, will produce a lessons learned report and a best practice document for the Home Office, other parts of government and policing, as recommended by the committee and that of the IPA. 1.4 In order to capture the lessons and best practice and to include programme closure, the document will be shared in August 2023, rather than recommended April 2023 date.