Nine people have been named for the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which will take over the registration and inspection of childminding and early education and daycare from local authorities in April 2002. It will also be responsible for regulating adult care services and residential childcare.
A Scottish Executive spokes-person said, 'The members were picked for their management and governance skills, rather than specific expertise in these sectors or because they represented these particular sectors. There's going to be a committee structure in the way the organisations operate, so they will be able to get input from representatives of the sectors.'
The appointments to the Commission are: William Fisher, a freelance disability consultant; David McCallum, a consultant in residential childcare and education; John Hanlon, chair of the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council; Isobel Walkingshaw, a consultant educationalist and former director of health education at Fife Health Board; Raonid Cobban, research project leader at the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University; Alastair Chisholm, a business development consultant at Erskine hospital; Margaret Lindsay, head of operations of Care Visions and project manager of the Scottish Centre for Learning Disability; and Peter Cassidy, former director of social work at Aberdeen city council.
Nine members were appointed to the Scottish Social Services Council, which will regulate individual childcarers and seek to raise standards of practice. They are: Ursula Corker, chair of the Scotland Committee of the Carers' National Association; James McIntosh, who holds voluntary positions on community care, disability and rights groups; Michael Kirby, a Scottish convenor of Unison; Kate Pryde, head of adult provision at Falkirk council; Thomas Lynch, nursing advisor at Lanarkshire health board; Bryan Williams, professor of social work at Dundee University; Cherry Rowlings, professor of social work at Stirling University; Patrick Kelly, former chief nursing advisor at Dumfries and Galloway health board; and Elizabeth Bridgeford, retired director of social work for Perth and Kinross council.
