Interim National Care Service Advisory Board: Advice to Scottish Ministers and Council Leaders - Composition of the final National Care Service Advisory Board
Advice from the interim National Care Service Advisory Board to Scottish Ministers and Council Leaders on the composition of the final National Care Service Advisory Board.
Interim National Care Service Advisory Board
The interim NCS Advisory Board discussed the composition of the final Advisory Board at the following meetings:
- 24 June 2025
- 23 September 2025
- 10 November 2025
- 9 February 2026
The interim Board agreed its advice in relation to chairing arrangements and 5 individual members at its meeting of 23 September 2025.[2] This allowed the recruitment of those positions to proceed.
The interim Board agreed its advice in relation to the 7 organisational members, with the exception of non-public sector care provider member(s), at its meeting of 9 February 2025.[3]
The options for care provider membership and associated pros and cons were agreed through correspondence following the meeting on 9 February 2026.
Interim Advisory Board membership:
- Susan Douglas-Scott: Chair
- Anne Marie Monaghan: Chair, Independent Living Fund
- Tressa Burke: Chief executive, Glasgow Disability Alliance
- Marion McArdle: individual member
- Sandra Auld: individual member
- Jim Hume: individual member [4]
- Eireann McAuley: individual member
- Tracey McFall: individual member (Chair, Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance)
- Rachel Cackett: Chief executive, Coalition of Care and Support Providers Scotland [5]
- Donald Macaskill: Chief executive, Scottish Care [6]
- Theresa Shearer: Chief executive, Enable [7]
- Nicola Dickie: Director of People Policy, COSLA
- Soumen Sengupta: Chief officer, South Lanarkshire health and social care partnership
- Eddie Fraser: Chief executive, East Ayrshire
- Fiona Davies: Chief executive, NHS Highland
- Donna Bell: Director of Social Care and National Care Service Development, Scottish Government
- Iona Colvin: Deputy chair, Children and Families Leadership Group (Chief Social Work Adviser) (until December 2025)
- Joanna Macdonald: Deputy chair, Children and Families Leadership Group (Chief Social Work Adviser) (from December 2025)
Contact
Email: NCSAdvisoryBoard@gov.scot