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We continue our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with a second panel of witnesses. I welcome Pauline Lunn, director of In Control Scotland, who is representing the national self-directed support collaboration; Stephen Morgan, chief social work officer for Dumfries and Galloway, who is representing Social Work Scotland; and Frank Reilly, independent adviser on adults and the NCS, who is representing the Scottish Association of Social Work. We move straight to questions.

You must be brief as we must move to another theme; we only have five minutes left.

Thank you for your brevity.

Good morning and welcome to the 25th meeting of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in 2024. I have received no apologies.

Agenda item 1 is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private and whether to consider in private oral evidence on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill that is taken at future meetings. Do members agree to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.

We are really pressed for time, and we are just over halfway through this session. You can maybe add your comment in at another point.

Carol, do you have another question?

I apologise for cutting you off, Mr Macfarlane.

Do you have any other questions, Mr Sweeney?

Of course.

I thank Joe FitzPatrick for taking us exactly up to time. I will briefly suspend the meeting to allow for a changeover of witnesses. I thank the panel members for their time.

Our next item is an evidence session on the independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, which was commissioned by NHS England, and the implications for the future provision of gender identity services in Scotland. I welcome Rhoda MacLeod, who is the head of adult services—sexual health, police custody and prison health care—including Sandyford sexual health service, at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; and Tracey Gillies, who is the medical director at NHS Lothian. We also expect Dr Emilia Crighton, who is the director of public health at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

We move straight to questions.