Chamber and committees

My colleagues will probably dig into the detail of some of that, but we want to keep our focus on scrutinising the bill. The issues that you have highlighted are important and inform what the national care service hopes to achieve, but we need to bring the discussion back to the bill in front of us. I will keep bringing people back to that, because the committee needs to make recommendations informed by witnesses’ evidence.

Tracey Dalling, can you respond to my initial question on the Feeley review?

I presume, then, that the contractual aspect is more a question that you have, because it is not explicit in the bill.

In that case, do you think that those issues should covered in the framework bill straight off, informed by the work of the Fair Work Convention?

We move on to questions about workforce from Emma Harper.

You can ask a wee short one, and then we must move on. I am doing my teacher stare.

Who would like to go first?

Therefore, your participation in that co-design process is vital.

However, is it recognised that it is hoped that the service will be built from the ground up rather than from the top down? That is why the legislation is being done in the way that it is.

Our next theme is workforce pressures. We have already talked about that, but Emma Harper might want to fill in the gaps.

I will move on to comparisons between the national health service and social care, because we have discussed co-design quite extensively.