Engagement workstreams
The Committee worked with organisations from the reference group to develop and deliver five engagement workstreams, based on the following previously identified key stakeholder groups, to explore views on the implementation of SDS to date among stakeholders recruited by those same organisations:
Individuals with experiences of self-directed support
Carers
Frontline social care staff
Frontline social work staff
Social care providers
Using a deliberative democracy approachiDeliberative democracy approaches involve convening groups of people to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues. to enable the views of the public to inform the Committee’s scrutiny, Scottish Parliament staff including from the Scottish Parliament’s Participation and Communities team (PACT) and the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe), met with each of these five groups separately, twice during December 2023 and January 2024 to:
Develop parliamentary awareness and understanding, including in relation to the role of the Committee;
Introduce the concept of post-legislative scrutiny, alongside examples of inquiries undertaken by other parliamentary committees;
Provide background to the Social Care (Self Directed Support) (Scotland...