National police wellbeing survey

Hi, my name is Andy Rhodes
I'm the service director of the National Police Wellbeing Service Oscar Kilo, we're responsible for issuing, collecting and analysing the National Wellbeing Survey, which many of you have just completed.
Over 40,000 responses from officers and staff across policing makes this the biggest survey of its kind in England and Wales
I want to thank you for taking the time out of your busy days to do that and I want to talk to you about some of the findings but more importantly what's going to happen the result of you giving us your information and your lived experience about what's going on for you in policing. You've told us and this is a wake up call for us yet again the levels of exhaustion, burnout, fatigue, workload resources are having a detrimental effect not only on your health but on your families your loved ones and even members of the public in terms of victims of crime and the general public in terms of the quality service that you give it to them.
You've also told us some positives line manager support is very good you say that you have high purpose in your work and you feel confident you've got the skills and ability to do the job but there is a lot in that survey that needs attention urgently.

So what's going to happen with it I understand people sceptical about staff surveys they sort of say what's the point filling them in nothing seems to change there are three things that are going to happen as a result of this survey moving forward now. Firstly forces who took part and 33 out of 43 forces took part in our survey will be getting their local reports and they will be committing to taking action locally about the things that are in front of them that they think and believe that they can do something about in response to the feedback they've got force by force

Secondly in Oscar Kilo we're going to be looking at the wellbeing information that you've provided us and that's gonna be used to bolster and support existing programs that we've got around things like trauma support, fatigue, sleep, recovery and also some of the work we're doing to highlight the real problems that we've got with these organisational stressors that have as much impact if not more than the actual job itself.

We're also going to be commissioning a deeper report into the findings so we can get underneath more and more of some of that information that you've given us to fully understand what is going on and what we can do about it.

Finally want to reassure you that this survey is landing with the people who make the big decisions around policing, I've not seen that before to the extent I'm seeing it at the moment.

The most senior people in policing and government are getting briefed on this survey, they're getting the report in full and that will be fed into important piece of work that will influence how policing gets done in this country; police reform, the workforce plan and also the police covenant.

So finally I want to thank you for taking the time to fill in the survey it is going to be something that makes a big difference in terms of the decisions that are made around policing for you in your workplace and also nationally - thank you