Social care - Practitioner and Stakeholder Panel minutes: June 2023

Attendees and apologies

• Sue Bruce (Chair, Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation)
• Stuart Currie (Vice Chair, Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation)

Practitioner and Stakeholder Panel Members (the panel)

• Care Home Relatives Group 
• CELCIS
• Coalition of Care and Support Providers (CCPS) 
• COSLA
• People Led Policy Panel
• Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
• STUC
• The Health and Social Care Alliance (The Alliance)
• The Promise Scotland
• The Royal College of Nursing Scotland (RCN)
• The Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance Network 
• Scottish Association of Social Workers
• Community Justice Scotland
• National Day Nursery Association
• Social Work Scotland
• Unison
• Coalition of Carers in Scotland
• Alliance Scotland

Scottish Government personnel and secretariat 

• Kerry Brooks
• Laura Ferguson

Apologies 

• Carer Centres Managers Network
• Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland 
• Scottish Adoption
• Self-Directed Support Scotland 
• Scottish Care
• ​​​​​​​Inclusion Scotland

Items and actions

Approval of minutes from May meeting

The Panel approved the minutes and agreed to be published on the IRISR website.  

Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation update 

The Chair provided an update to the Panel about the updated timelines of the review and publishing the final report in September.  

The secretariat provided an update in regard to questions raised by Panel members about impact assessments. The impact assessments are in draft format and will be updated after recommendations are accepted. Additionally, the secretariat confirmed an Island Impact Assessment has been completed.

Further reflections by the Chair

The Chair shared an update of the key emerging themes from each chapter of the final report and an overview of potential recommendations.