Social care - Independent Review Panel minutes: June 2023 - easy read

Independent Review Panel Meeting: Minutes of meeting - Easy read

June 13 2023

Who was at the meeting?

Chair: Sue Bruce - Chair of the Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation of Social Care in Scotland

Vice Chair: Stuart Currie – Vice Chair of the Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation of Social Care in Scotland

Independent Review Panel Members (the panel)

• David Strang
• Lillian Cringles
• Megan Moffat
• Neelam Bakshi
• Paul Redfern
• Satjit Singh

Scottish Government staff and secretariat

A secretariat is an admin team that gives support with meetings

• Kerry Brooks
• Laura Ferguson
• Iain MacAllister

Who could not come to the meeting?

• Lee Knifton
• Kate Sang

Items and actions

Approval of minutes from the last meeting

An action is what will happen.

Action: Minutes from the May meeting were agreed and will be published on the IRISR website.

Reflections and feedback

The Chair told the Panel when the different stages of the review will happen.

The final report will go online in September.

Panel members shared their thoughts and feedback about the draft chapters for the final report.

The Chair and Vice Chair thanked the Panel members for this.

Action: Revised final chapters will be shared with the Panel for them to say what they think.

Discussion about draft recommendations

The Chair and Vice Chair shared a set of draft recommendations with the Panel.

The Panel members shared their specialist knowledge and advice to add to the recommendations.

Is there anything else we need to talk about?

The Chair and Vice Chair asked for an extra meeting on 29 June on Teams.

Date of next meeting

The next panel meeting will be on 29 June from 10 to 11.30am

on Teams.