Chamber and committees

Public Service Reform Committee strategic plan

The Public Service Reform Committee’s vision is to help shape people-centred reform that delivers improved, fiscally sustainable public services.

Through constructive and evidence-based scrutiny, the Committee will provide transparency and strategic oversight, track progress, and identify challenges and opportunities. We will give a voice to communities and stakeholders about the issues that matter to them, building confidence in the reform process and in our scrutiny.

Objectives

The Committee will prioritise:

constructive scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s public service reform programme by pressing for clear evidence and detail on its reform proposals
work that promotes transparency and encourages public engagement with public service reform, including providing a platform for community perspectives and stakeholder expertise to influence the direction and delivery of reforms
maintaining a broad overview of the public service reform programme which monitors progress, identifies challenges and opportunities, and tracks its long-term delivery and impact.

Ways of working

The Committee will aim to work:

constructively: by being forensic, fair and firm in its scrutiny
collegiately and consensually: taking an evidence-based approach to decision-making, recognising that committees work best when they speak with one voice, and inspire public confidence in our recommendations which are focused on better outcomes
innovatively: for example, in relation to how we work with other parliamentary committees and how we engage with one another in recognising the complex and overlapping nature of the public service landscape.