Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 27 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken on (a) each of the actions under priority 1 and (b) action 4.1 under priority 4 of the Mental Health and Capacity Reform Programme: Delivery Plan: October 2023 – April 2025.
We are committed to upholding human rights and enabling people who lack capacity to live well, with choice and control over their own lives, as well as any care, treatment, or wider assistance they might need. We are grateful to those who responded to our Adults with Incapacity (AWI) consultation last year, the analysis of which was published in January 2025. We are now moving from consultation to collaboration and will establish an AWI Expert Working Group and Minister-led Oversight Group to understand policy, practical and resourcing implications more fully ahead of legislative reform. One of the key areas for further development, drawing on the valuable feedback already gathered, will be Supported Decision Making.