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National Care Service - governance and representation: co-design report - easy read

This easy read report sets out findings we have gathered through research and co-design that relate to governance and representation.

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Codesign of the NCS has been split up into themes. One of these themes is called Governance and Representation.

Codesign lets people share their ideas and tell us how to make things better.

The Governance and Representation co-design theme is focused on how lived experience can be placed at centre of the NCS.

This lived experience includes people who have experience of:

When we ran the co-design sessions, our aim was to create a NCS board.

A board is a group of people who make decisions about an organisation. For example, decisions about the NCS.

The board would bring people with lived experience together with leaders from:

The board would have been a public body. But some people disagreed with this.

A public body is an organisation that has its own legal identity. It is not legally part of the Scottish Government.

In January 2025, the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, Maree Todd, gave an update about the NCS in parliament.

The minister let parliament know that we are going to create an advisory board for the NCS.

An advisory board is a group of people who can help with the NCS by making suggestions about how things could be better.

The advisory board will replace the public body we had proposed.

The advisory board will bring people together to:

make sure we have high quality services
make sure we have consistent services. Consistent means the same everywhere in Scotland
advise ministers and the people responsible for delivering services in local areas on actions they could take to improve things

It will take time to find final board members for the Advisory Board.

We are creating an interim board so that we can start work quickly.

An interim board is a group of people who will work together until we recruit the final Advisory Board.

The final Advisory Board members will take over from interim board members after they go through a recruitment process

We will still use what we learned from co-design to help us with the new Advisory Board.

During this co-design we talked about what people with lived experience thought of:

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