30.4 This is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of civil servants and seconded staff from police and HMPPS. Its functions include:

• Issuing MAPPA Guidance on behalf of the Secretary of State.
• Advising and supporting Responsible Authorities (RA) and Strategic Management Boards (SMB) on MAPPA and public protection issues.
• Working with other government departments and agencies to consider the implications of related policy on MAPPA and public protection.
• Maintaining the Prison Public Protection Manual.
• Engaging with public protection leads in prisons and probation to inform policy and practice developments.
• Engaging with other Responsible Authorities including Health, YJB and Youth Custody Services to inform policy and practice developments
• Providing advice, support and quality assurance for MAPPA Serious Case Reviews.
• Producing the national MAPPA annual statistics and giving guidance relating to local MAPPA annual reports on behalf of the Secretary of State.
• Collating Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data, which is shared with RANSG.
• Engaging with the HMPPS Sex Offender Team to inform policy and practice in the management of sex offenders.
• Engaging with the Probation Service domestic abuse lead and the public protection leads in prisons and probation to inform policy and practice on domestic abuse.
• Engaging with the Probation Service Integrated Offender Management (IOM) lead and the Police National Working Group (PNWG) to inform practice and to develop an interface between IOM and MAPPA.
• Engaging with the ViSOR community on behalf of HMPPS and contributing to its development in line with the business needs of HMPPS.
• Managing the appointment/termination of appointment of Lay Advisers on behalf of the Secretary of State.