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Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
04/11/2009
Minister for Children & Early Years, Adam Ingram today announced the re-appointments of Stanley Smith, Professor Bartholomew McGettrick and Dr Anne Haddow as members of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).
Stanley Smith retired in 2006 as Chief Social Work Officer and Head of Social Services Policy at Aberdeen City Council, having accumulated more than 30 years' experience as a practitioner and manager in local authority social work services.
He has worked as an Associate for the Joint Improvement Team, an organisation based in the Scottish Government which provides support to health and social care partnerships across Scotland and is a member on the Board of Trustees of Voluntary Service Aberdeen (VSA), Aberdeen's major social care charity. He brings to the Council his knowledge of workforce regulation and development within the diverse field of social services. He holds no other ministerial appointments.
Professor Bartholomew McGettrick is Dean of the Faculty of Education at Liverpool Hope University and Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow. He is a consultant in education, with more than 30 years' experience at senior staff level in teacher education institutions.
He is also a former Principal of St Andrew's College and a regular contributor to national and international conferences across the world. He is a member and chair of several national and international groups, as well as boards of governors of a number of schools. He brings to the work of the council his experience in academia and excellent communication and interpersonal skills. He does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
Dr Anne Haddow, a family carer, is on the committee of a number of voluntary and statutory sector partnerships. She is Vice Chair of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers Centre in Fife, a family member of PAMIS (an organisation which works in partnership with people with profound learning and multiple disabilities) and has served on various national and local committees concerned with carers and people with learning disabilities. She brings the perspective of a service user to the Council, knowledge of workforce and service regulation and development, as well as knowledge of boards, committees and other representatives' bodies.
Dr Haddow holds a ministerial appointment as a board member of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, set up in 2002 to regulate all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland, a post which attracts an annual remuneration of £8,100.
The re-appointments will run for a period of three years commencing on October 1, 2009 and ending on September 30, 2012. The posts are part-time and attract a remuneration of £8,221 a year for a minimum time commitment of five days per month.
The SSSC is an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) established under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001. It is responsible for improving the quality of social services and protecting the public by strengthening and supporting the professionalism of the workforce and raising standards of practice through regulation. The social services workforce comprises almost 140,000 people.
The Council has an annual budget of just under £9 million (2009-10) which includes running costs. These Ministerial public re-appointments were made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland's Code of Practice.
All appointments and re-appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity within the last five years - if there is any to be declared - to be made public. None of the above re-appointees have been involved in any political activity within the last five years.