Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

Maree Todd  MSP

Contact

Address

Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

Maree Todd was reappointed  as Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in May 2024.

Responsibilities

Supports the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

Specific responsibilities are:

  • adult support and protection
  • ‘Anne’s Law’ delivery
  • Care Inspectorate
  • care, support and rights
  • child and adolescent mental health
  • dementia
  • forensic mental health services and reform
  • Independent Living Fund
  • mental health wellbeing
  • Mental Welfare Commission
  • National Care Service
  • self-directed support
  • Social Care and Integration
  • social prescribing
  • social service workforce
  • sport and physical activity
  • suicide prevention
  • survivors of childhood abuse

Biography

She grew up in the West Highlands, attending Ullapool High School and then studying pharmacy and prescribing at Robert Gordon's and Strathclyde, as well as taking an ante-natal teaching diploma at the University of Bedfordshire. 

A pharmacist by profession, Maree Todd worked in NHS Highland for 20 years, mainly as a mental health pharmacist in a psychiatric hospital. She also contributed to SIGN guidance on perinatal mental health. 

She was previously the Minister for Children and Young People, and was appointed as Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in March 2023.

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