Stephen Moore transcript 
Hi there. My name is Stephen Moore, and I’m a member of the Accounts Commission.  
I want to give you a quick summary of what we considered when we last met on 7 October.  
Our meetings start at 9.30 and they’re live streamed, and then we move into a private session.  
At our last meeting we considered the Best Value report into South Ayrshire Council.   
What we were looking for was evidence of continuous improvement.  
What we were looking for was evidence that they had medium and long-term financial plans which were linked, in turn, to the council’s priorities.  
We also considered how the council’s responded to Covid-19. There were very significant sums of money allocated to the council, and what we were looking for was evidence they had plans for how they were going to use that money to meet the priorities of the council.  
Our report will be published on 27 October.  
We also considered the National Care Service consultation.  
I think that the Accounts Commission is in a unique position to respond to this consultation, given that we have audited and reported on the performance of probably every single public body that has delivered health and social care in Scotland in the last five to ten years.   
This consultation is very significant. It will affect every citizen. It will affect the private sector and the voluntary sector and the statutory bodies that deliver health and social care.  
This consultation is due to be completed by the middle of November and I urge you to read our report.  
We also then considered the community empowerment report, with a focus on looking at poverty and inequalities.   
We also wanted to look at the impact of Covid-19 on community empowerment. And we will publish our report on this on 28 October.  
The Commission meets again on 11 November. We meet at 9.30 and the meeting will be public and it will be live streamed.  
I hope you can join us then.