Our people

This year we developed our own in-house app to manage our recruitment process. The app helps us track an application through the recruitment process, capture our diversity statistics and send update emails to applicants. The app also sends applicants a link to upload their applications. This has helped save administrative time and system costs.

We ran various recruitment campaigns over the year and welcomed nine new colleagues to the team.

We identified training needs based on staff consultation and key and emerging issues in our work. We delivered a training and development programme to staff including legal updates, training on reasonable adjustments, unconscious bias, equality, agile change management, trauma informed practice, GDPR, bereavement, kindness and motivations. Staff members ran sessions and we also welcomed speakers from a range of partner organisations including the Public Defence Solicitors Office and LawCare.

It was another busy year for our staff-led wellbeing and inclusion group, who ran a number of events for staff including World First Aid Day, International Men’s Day, Fertility Awareness, Ovarian and Prostate Cancer, Autism Awareness, Tartan Day and more.

For Mental Health Awareness Week we focused on how being part of a safe, positive community is vital for our mental health and wellbeing.

Focusing on that community theme we had a coffee morning, a lunchtime walk and celebrated national cocktail day to bring staff together. We also encouraged staff to look at volunteering opportunities and shared some stories from staff who currently volunteer.

Charity is always close to our staff’s hearts and this year the chosen charity was CHAS. We started the year by hearing about the services CHAS provide and it really hit home what the money raised could do. This inspired staff to raise an amazing £5,022 plus £1,151.13 in Gift Aid. Staff took part in sponsored cycling, charity auctions, Christmas Raffles and more to raise this incredible amount of money.

For 2025-26 the staff charity will be Scottish Autism.

We continue to value our relationship with PCS as our recognised trade union. This year discussions have focused on pay and terms and conditions.