Dates of board meetings and representation is as follows: Date Scottish Government Representative 21 November 2005 Tom McCabe MSP 27 March 2006 Tom McCabe unable to attend, apologies given 23 May 2006 Ruth Parsons for Tom McCabe MSP 19 June 2006 Tom McCabe MSP 21 November 2006 Tom McCabe MSP 22 January 2007 Tom McCabe MSP, Ruth Parsons 12 March 2007 Tom McCabe MSP 21 May 2007 Ruth Parsons 27 August 2007 Rab Fleming for Ruth Parsons 4 September 2007 Rab Fleming for Ruth Parsons 26 November 2007 Ruth Parsons 28 January 2008 Ruth Parsons 17 March 2008 Ruth Parsons As part of the concordat between the Scottish Government and COSLA, it was agreed that the Improvement Service would be governed wholly by local government, through COSLA and SOLACE.