SCHEDULE 11Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland: establishment etc.

3Membership of SCSWIS

1

In appointing members, the Scottish Ministers are to have regard to the desirability of including—

a

persons who have experience of, and have shown capacity and capability in, the provision of any social service,

b

persons who—

i

use, or have used, any social service or services which prospectively are to become social services,

ii

care for, or have cared for, such persons as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (i),

c

persons who have such other skills, knowledge or experience as the Scottish Ministers consider to be relevant in relation to the exercise of SCSWIS’s functions.

2

In appointing members under paragraph 2(1)(d), the Scottish Ministers must appoint at least two persons—

a

one of whom falls within sub-paragraph (i), and one of whom falls within sub-paragraph (ii), of sub-paragraph (1)(b) of this paragraph, or

b

both of whom fall within either sub-paragraph (i), or sub-paragraph (ii), of sub-paragraph (1)(b) of this paragraph.