Scotland’s Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach

• Finally, whilst this may be out of scope of the Inquiry, we remind the Committee that the creation of new public bodies and/or the development of the mandate of existing ones alone will not address the issues raised by the emergent trend of proposals for new Commissions/ers. [...] In respect of diversity and representation, the Commission’s independent Governance Review in 202312 recommended that the Parliament should consider a review of the SCHRA 2006 to extend the number of members of the Commission and provide for greater opportunity for representatives of different people and communities across Scotland. [...] This includes the specific rights afforded to all people through the European Convention on Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Elimina. [...] The members of the Commission and the Chair provide strategic leadership of the Commission, and the Executive Director is accountable for delivery of the Commission’s Strategic Plan through the staff team and effective and efficient use of its budget. [...] In respect of the human rights of the people of Scotland, the ultimate test of value for money is whether the Commission is delivering an impact on improving justice in the human right system and in the progressive realisation of human rights.