The Commission was originally set up in 1960
under the Mental Health Act. Our duties are set
out in current mental health and incapacity
law.
We are accountable to Ministers at the Scottish Government
for our statutory duties and how we spend public money. We carry
out our work and produce reports independently from the Scottish
Government.
The law says that we must have service users and carers on the
Board. This means that the service user and carer voice is at
the heart of our decision making.
Our roles:
Board - publicly appointed Board members
who govern the Commission.
Staff - the teams who do the day-to-day
work of the Commission and are the first point of contact for the
public.
What we do
We carry out our statutory duties by focussing on five main
areas of work. They are visiting people, monitoring the acts,
investigations, information and advice and influencing and
challenging.
This section has information about the
main activities we carry out in order to fulfill this
role.
