Commentary on Sections Part 3 – Staffing in Care Services Section 9 – Annual report on staffing in care services
59.Section 9 requires Scottish Ministers must publish and lay before the Scottish Parliament an annual report setting out a summary of how the duties imposed by sections 3,7 and 8 on those who provide, plan and secure services are being discharged; the effect that staffing levels in care services have on the discharge of those duties; the steps taken by Ministers to support staffing levels in care services in order to assist the discharge of those duties; how the matters in subsection (1)(a) to (c) have been taken into account in determining the future supply of registered nurses, medical practitioners and such other care professionals as are considered relevant to the discharge of the duties in sections 3 and 7; and the steps that Ministers have taken to ensure that funding is available to any person who provides a care service in order to assist the discharge of the duties in sections 3, 7 and 8. Subsection (3) sets out the matters which Scottish Ministers must have regard to in preparing the report.