The Power of Your Parliament Gillian Baxendine Head

The Power of Your Parliament

Gillian Baxendine Head of Committee Engagement Unit The Scottish Parliament

What is the Scottish Parliament?

How many Members of the Scottish Parliament are there? 1 59 ^R 01^ 2 73 ^R 02^ 3 129 ^R 03^ 4 156 ^R 04^

Who is the head of the Scottish Parliament? 1 2 Ruth Davidson Theresa May ^R 02^ ^R 01^ 4 3 Ken Mac. Intosh ^R 03^ Nicola Sturgeon ^R 04^

Ken Macintosh Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament

Which of these does the Scottish Parliament not do? 1 Spend the money ^R 01^ 2 Hold the Scottish Government to account ^R 02^ 3 Represent the people of Scotland ^R 03^ 4 Make laws ^R 04^

Some basics Scottish Parliament - passes laws - approves spending - led by Presiding Officer - holds Government to account Scottish Government - runs the country - spends the money! - led by First Minister - answerable to Parliament

Which of these laws did the Scottish Parliament NOT make? 1 2 Abolition of NHS Prescription Charges Act Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Act ^R 01^ 3 Marriage and Civil Partnership Act ^R 02^ 4 ^R 03^ Armed Forces Act ^R 04^

Devolved (1998) Agriculture, forestry & fisheries Housing Culture & creative industries Justice Education and training Local Government Environment and planning Social Work Health & social services Sport Transport

Reserved Broadcasting Energy regulation Constitution Foreign Affairs Defence and Security Immigration Economic and monetary policy Trade and industry Employment Social Security

What do Committees do? Hold to account Scottish Government/public bodies Inquire into subjects within remit Consider legislation Report to the Scottish Parliament

Informing committees Written Oral Visits/ Events

Keeping up-to-date with the Committee

Keeping up-to-date with the Committee

Keeping up-to-date with Committee

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Rebecca Macfie Senior Assistant Clerk Health & Sport Committee, The Scottish Parliament

How to influence the making of the law

Laws made by the Scottish Parliament

What happens to a Bill?

Your role

Dr. Anne Jepson Senior Researcher - Health and Social Care Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe)

Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill • Context • Policy objectives • Parts of the Bill 1. guiding Principles for health and care staffing 2. staffing in the NHS 3. staffing by care services

Policy Objectives § To ensure that there are enough staff with the right skills in health and care settings to provide high quality care § To support transparency and openness in workforce planning and service redesign § To support working arrangements across different agencies and different staff groups § To integrate workforce planning across health and social care services § It is not about minimum staffing or fixed ratios § It seeks to encourage innovation and local decision-making in service provision § It seeks to provide assurance for staff and users that staffing will enable safe and high quality care, regardless of setting

Parts of the Bill § Part 1 – Guiding principles. Staffing should be appropriate for high quality safe care § Part 2 - NHS Staffing. Bill makes it a statutory duty to apply existing nursing and midwifery staffing tools § Part 3 – Staffing in care services. Bill gives power to the Care Inspectorate to develop staff planning methods with care home sector.

Roundtable Discussion (20 mins) TASK 1 • Imagine you are a committee considering this Bill • You have a group affected by the Bill coming to speak to you (your facilitator will tell you which group) • As a committee, from the information and knowledge you have, come up with 3 questions you would put to them TASK 2 • What are the benefits/issues/gaps with the bill that a Committee member should consider?

Whole Group Discussion What themes and questions came out of the group discussions?

Some quick feedback § How likely are you to give your views to the committee in the future? § What would be the easiest way to communicate your views to the Committee?

How likely are you after today to share your views with the committee? 1 Definitely 2 Probably 3 Possibly 4 Not very likely 5 Definitely not

What would be your preferred way to communicate your views to the Committee? 1 In person at the Scottish Parliament 2 In writing (could be anonymously) 3 Informally, but in person 4 Via social media 5 At my place of work

One last thing…. What should the Committee be looking at? § Please write a health or care topic on the card provided that you think the Committee should look into § leave it on your table for us to collect.

Health and Sport Committee The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH 99 1 SP Healthand. Sport@parliament. scot Tel: 0131 348 5224 @SP_Health. Sport