Workforce

The FCN supports the community across different aspects of workforce management. This includes recruitment and retention, education and training, wellbeing of practitioners and workforce planning.

We are working with the forensic community across sectors, policing, academia and private practice to prove the most effective support and guidance for policing. 

Identified priorities

• Continuation of the Level 4 Digital Forensic Technician and Level 7 Advanced Digital Forensic Professional apprenticeships and embed within policing and learning providers, with ongoing support &coordination O
• Development of the Level 4 Physical Forensic apprenticeship
• Continued facilitation of publication of up to date and fit for purpose national guidance/good practice advice, to support national decision making 
• Support forensic practitioner wellbeing engaging with national groups, including Oscar Kilo, the NPCC workforce coordination committee and the NPCC recruitment, retention and wellbeing of investigators committee.
• Advocate for the forensic community in relation to wellbeing. 

Purpose of activities

• Better able to safeguard health & wellbeing of our workforce
• Better retention of people within workplace and role
• Enabling right access to the right training
• Fit for purpose workforce 
• incentivise retention of workforce
• Attract right skills into roles
• Nationally recognised and accessible provision of learning
• Regular and latest sharing of knowledge and good practise to drive national consistency and standardisation, improving quality of decision making