Interim National Care Service Advisory Board: Advice to Scottish Ministers and Council Leaders - Scope of the final NCS Advisory Board

Interim National Care Service Advisory Board

The interim NCS Advisory Board discussed the scope of the final Advisory Board at the following meetings:

24 June 2025 – children’s services

23 September 2025 – justice social work

09 February 2026 – homelessness and housing adaptations

The interim Board agreed final decision statements for children’s services and justice social work at its meeting on 10 November 2025.^[2]

The statement on homelessness and housing adaptations was agreed through correspondence following the discussion at the 9 February 2026 meeting.

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
• Eireann McAuley: individual member
• Tracey McFall: individual member (Chair, Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance)
• Rachel Cackett: Chief executive, Coalition of Care and Support Providers Scotland
• Donald Macaskill: Chief executive, Scottish Care
• Theresa Shearer: Chief Executive, Enable
• 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)