Chamber and committees

Thank you. Are there gaps between impacts in different areas, such as between rural and urban areas or island and mainland areas?

Good morning. Tara, in your opening remarks, you said that unintended consequences of the policy would be one of the things that would be looked at. Can you expand on that?

Good morning, and thank you for all your answers so far.

Dr Macaskill, you have talked about there being a crisis management situation right now. Workers are tired and are struggling to engage with the process that is on-going. What are the main concerns about social care capacity, delivery, culture and staffing? What more can be done right now?

I will try to be brief, convener.

Last week, we heard that a national social work agency could support and invest in social care careers and career paths; indeed, the trade union representatives mentioned that, too. Such a move could ensure that staff could progress if they wished to. What are your views on that?

Good morning. Cara Stevenson said earlier that workers engage with the regional forums, but that there is still uncertainty. Does that affect the morale of the workforce?

You also said that there were a lot of holes in how the national care service would move forward in delivering services and that many areas still need to be fleshed out. Can you expand on that?

If anyone else wants to write to us on that issue, they may do so.

Good morning. I very much welcome the work and Susan Duffy’s comments. It is important that, as a Parliament, we really get into the issue and really make a difference for the future.

How do the recommendations that have been made from the audit compare with those in other nations? Are we going far enough? Those questions are for anyone who wants to come in.

With regard to implementation, women are in a slightly different situation because they tend to have caring responsibilities and other things that they need to do. How are we going to support them if we are going to ask them to join committees and take on some of the bigger roles that we have talked about? How can their needs be identified?

I have just one more question, convener, which is on the recommendations. Recommendation 26 is that the SPPA Committee consider

“whether complaints against MSPs related to bullying and harassment should be referred to an independent panel rather than to the SPPA Committee”.

What is the reasoning for that?