MPS budget and equalities report for 2005–06 and business plan and budget for 2006-07

Report: 8
Date: 20 July 2006
By: Commissioner

Summary

This report provides an overview of the Budget and Equalities Report for 2005–06 and Business Plan and Budget for 2006–07 and highlights key areas of work for the MPS. The full report is attached as an appendix.

A. Recommendations

That

1. Members note the content of the report to the Greater London Authority (GLA).

B. Supporting information

1. The data requested by the GLA for the Budget and Equalities Report
2005 – 06 and the Business Plan and Budget for 2006 – 07 was submitted in the following format:

• Template 1 – HR data and targets.
• Template 2A – Addresses the issue of service delivery and analyses actual equalities based expenditure for 2005/06 against budget. Similarly it details an analysis of 2006/7 planned expenditure. This expenditure is contained in the MPS approved organisational budget.
• Template 2B – summary of recommendations from the last Budget and Equalities report and comment on progress.

The following paragraphs highlight key areas of MPS work with greater detail available in the full submission.

Community engagement and leadership plans for 2006–07

2. The Met Modernisation Programme (MMP) was established to draw together the key proposals from the MPS Service Review, the change projects aimed at delivery of the three year Policing London Strategy and the Annual Policing Plan and existing change projects such as Safer Neighbourhoods, Together and the Command, Control, Communications and Information programme (C3i).

Diversity learning and development

3. Over the past 12 months the Diversity and Citizen Focus Directorate Learning and Development Branch has been responsible for the implementation of the MPS Race and Diversity Learning and Development Programme. This programme is set within a national framework produced by the Home Office and a National Strategy for Improving Police Performance in Race and Diversity.

MPS Equalities Scheme

4. Following the publication of the MPS Race Equality Scheme in May 2005, there is now a statutory requirement for the MPS to produce a Disability Equality Scheme by no later than 3 December 2006 and a Gender Equality Scheme by April 2007. To demonstrate its commitment to equality in its widest sense, the MPS is developing an Equalities Scheme in respect of all six strands of diversity (age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief and sexual orientation). This is a major project, which will build on the direction outlined within the MPS Race and Diversity Strategy 2006-2009.

Progress on recommendations from Morris/CRE/Ghaffur/Taylor reports

5. Following the publication of the Morris Inquiry Report, the Authority approved a framework for the implementation of its recommendations, along with recommendations from the CRE, Taylor and Ghaffur Reports. The framework was outcome-oriented, and designed to secure a comprehensive and cohesive approach to all of the reports, in view of their commonalities (see template 2B).

A recent MPA/MPS stocktaking exercise, the results of which will be reported later this year, shows that substantial progress has been made in implementing the changes – in organisation, policy, process and practice – recommended by Morris. Much important work is in progress – the Met Modernisation Programme, the Together Programme (incorporating work to establish the new Leadership Academy), the establishment of a new Prevention and Organisational Learning command within the reformed and remodelled Professional Standards Directorate are all particularly vital ingredients of this progress.

Progress on modernised training strategy

6. As part of the national Home Office modernisation programme for police training, the MPS has now established five foundation-training sites across London. This means that 76% of all new officers are trained at Hendon and the remaining 24% at the other sites located in Westminster, Havering, Barnet, Orpington and Sunbury.

Progress on implementing the recommendations in The London Domestic Violence Strategy

7. Project Umbra is an MPS led initiative, under the strategic lead of the Head of the Violent Crime Directorate and commissioned by The London Criminal Justice Board. It is integral in the delivery of the Mayor’s Second Domestic Violence Strategy. Project Umbra is a major initiative that requires multi agency commitment across all sectors but will result in fundamentally changing and enhancing the inter-agency response to domestic violence in the capital.

Conclusion

8. It is anticipated that a budget and equalities meeting led by the Mayor’s office will be held in June/July and following that, as in previous years, a budget and equalities report will be produced later in the summer. Functional bodies will be asked to comment on the relevant parts of the draft report prior to publication.

Abbreviations

C3i

Command, Control, Communications and Information programme

GLA

Greater London Authority

HR

Human Resources

MMP

Met Modernisation Programme

Projects

Project Umbra

Multi-agency approach to tackle domestic violence

Report Titles

CRE

A Formal Investigation of the Police Service in England and Wales

Ghaffur

Thematic review of race and diversity in the Metropolitan Police Service

Taylor

Review of Police Disciplinary Arrangements

C. Race and equality impact

The MPS is developing a major programme involving the adoption of an MPS wide Electronic Self Assessment Tool (ES@T). This will enable a self-assessment process that is speedy, detailed and accurate and capable of monitoring MPS performance against the Equality Standards for local government (Eslg).

Five pilot Borough Operational Command Units (BOCUs) and Operational Command Units (OCUs) have been identified and it is intended to pilot ES@T from September 2006 once the product, which is a local government tool, is fit for MPS purpose.

D. Financial implications

The equalities based expenditure for 2005-6 and planned expenditure for 2006-7 is included in appendix.

E. Background papers

• Full Submission

F. Contact details

Report author: David Hills – Diversity Strategy and Coordination Unit, Diversity and Citizen Focus Directorate, MPS

For more information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

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