Commissioner landscape

Date: 11th February 2025
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

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Deadline: 24^th February 2025

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee was established in December 2024. It was set up in response to the findings of an inquiry into the growing Commissioner landscape, led by the Finance and Public Administration Committee.

The Committee has been asked by Parliament to review and develop a framework for SPCB supported bodies including by:

• defining how these bodies can be held to account and scrutinised
• setting stronger criteria for creating new supported bodies
• identifying how services and offices can be shared between these bodies

Together will be responding to the consultation, drawing on our submission to the earlier call for views which highlighted the importance of protecting the independent role and office of the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland.

• Access the call for views here.