The Chair and the members of our Board set the strategic direction of the Care Inspectorate, taking into account legislation and policy guidance set by the Scottish Government. Each member of the Board brings a wealth of experience and wide-ranging skills, along with a passionate interest in social care. Read our Board members biographies below.
Board meetings
The Care Inspectorate’s Board and Committee cycle runs from 1 April to 31 March each year. Our public Board meetings are held at least four times a year and members of the public are welcome to observe these meetings via Microsoft Teams video-conferencing.
If you are interested in observing the public business of the Board, please email the Board secretariat lead,
Our public Board meeting dates for 2026/27 are:
- 4 June 2026
- 24 September 2026
- 10 December 2026
- 4 March 2027
All meetings run from 10:30-13:00.
Papers for our Board meetings are normally published seven days in advance of each meeting and are available to download here. On this same page, the papers from previous meetings are also available to view. Minutes of previous meetings are only published once they have been approved. Most of these are contained in previous meeting papers, but from December 2022 they are available to view as stand-alone documents here.
Read the Board’s Code of Conduct and the register of members interests 2025.
The Care Inspectorate has two committees which meet on a quarterly basis and report to our Board. These are:
Audit and Risk Committee
This committee supports the Board in its responsibilities for issues of risk, control and governance and associated assurance through a process of constructive challenge. The Committee meetings are not held in public, but the approved minutes of these can be viewed here.
Finance and Resources Committee
This committee was formed in late 2024 and is responsible for advising the Board on a range of strategies, policies and plans related to finance, budget, staff and resources. These meetings are not held in public but the approved minutes can be viewed here.
Biographies
Doug Moodie, Chair
Doug Moodie has Chaired the Board of the Care Inspectorate since 1 September 2022.
Doug has been a Chartered Certified Accountant since 1994, and a Management Consultant since 2012, working in senior roles and leading teams across a range of sectors. Doug brings experience from a variety of different businesses that he has established, which include early years childcare, property management and private equity.
Doug is currently a Chair of Falkirk Children’s Panel, Chair of Clackmannanshire Business Improvement District (BID), and Chair of Bfriend in South Ayrshire.
Naghat Ahmed
Naghat is a Law and Accountancy graduate. Her current role at Glasgow City Council includes corporate policy, programme and project management. She has previously worked on policy and strategy development, equality and diversity, change management, corporate governance and utilising project methodologies.
She previously worked in the Commission for Racial Equality and NHS24, specialising in equality and diversity. Naghat is a carer for relatives who have disabilities.
Since 2018 Naghat has also been a member of the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland and since September 2021 has been a non-executive member for Social Security Scotland.
Dr Bill Maxwell
Bill has extensive experience of developing quality improvement strategies for national education systems and leading public sector reform. After working as an educational psychologist, Bill joined the Scottish Education Inspectorate in 1994. Following a range of roles and a two-year secondment to the Scottish Government, Bill was appointed as HM Chief Inspector of Education for Wales in 2008.
He returned to Scotland as HM Chief Inspector of Education for Scotland in 2010 and shortly afterwards was appointed as Chief Executive to lead the creation of Education Scotland, a new public service improvement agency which brought the functions of an inspectorate together with a wider range of services to promote national improvement and the effective delivery of the Government’s major reform programmes in education. Bill retired from Education Scotland in 2017 and is now consulting on education quality assurance, including projects for the European Commission and the OECD in Europe and the Middle East.
Bill is a Board member of OSCR, the Scottish Charity Regulator, and a Director of the High School of Dundee.
Rognvald Johnson
Rognvald commenced his career working for The Royal Bank of Scotland, serving in a number of branches/departments, including the Bank’s Internal Audit Department, before retiring as Senior Manager for the Orkney Branches. After a spell working at Orkney College as Development Officer, he was engaged as Project Director, successfully developing and delivering a Business Improvement District in Kirkwall. Rognvald was appointed as a Non- Executive Director with NHS Orkney in July 2012 until June 2018, during which time he served as Chair of the Finance and Performance Committee, as well as Vice Chair of the Audit Committee. During the latter part of his term, Rognvald represented NHS Orkney on Orkney Integrated Joint Board, responsible for the provision of Health and Care in the County, also serving on its Audit Committee.
Rognvald is also a Director on the Board of Orkney Hyperbaric Trust, a Charity Registered in Scotland, and which provides decompression facilities, if required, to divers.
Rona Fraser
Rona has over 30 years of experience as a social worker and manager within the field of criminal justice social work. Her commitment to partnership working, the values of social work and public service remain as strong now as when she started working as a social worker. She was formerly the Senior Manager for Community Justice for the City of Edinburgh Council. She has a particular interest in cross-cutting issues such as domestic abuse, women in the criminal justice system and the development of trauma informed services and leadership and has had a key role in developing services in these areas. She has also had extensive experience of the risk assessment and management of offenders, including establishing the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements within Edinburgh, working closely with partners across key agencies.
In 2023, Rona was appointed as a member of the Scottish Advisory Panel on Offending Reduction.
Paul Gray
Paul has extensive governance experience across non-executive director roles and senior executive roles, judicial and public service appointments, and wider public sector leadership. His current portfolio is diverse. He is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, Chair of the Management Advisory Board at the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, an honorary fellow of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and a senior adviser to the public affairs firm Charlotte Street Partners. He is also a founding director of a small consulting and advisory company.
Paul spent 40 years in the civil service before leaving in 2019. During his career, he held several director general positions within the Scottish Government, culminating in his role as Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director General for Health and Social Care.
Charlotte Armitage
Charlotte is a recent graduate of the University of Glasgow where she completed her MSc in Museum Studies in December 2025 achieving a distinction.
Charlotte brings to the Board extensive knowledge of the children's policy sector in Scotland, informed by both her lived experience in the care system and her professional work in the third sector. Charlotte has previously worked for Who Cares? Scotland, and now serves as Children’s Policy Officer for a refugee charity.
Her expertise ranges from a deep understanding of local service delivery gained through her involvement with the East Lothian Champions’ Board, to high-level project development that has contributed to internationally recognised campaigns, as well as significant legislative and policy changes. These include the guaranteed offer to university for Care Experienced applicants and the extension of free childcare for Care Experienced parents, both implemented as a result of her contributions during her time with Who Cares? Scotland. More recently, her work has focused on improving the lives of unaccompanied and refugee children and young people.
These skills are further complemented by six years of professional experience working in the Scottish Parliament and the House of Commons, which have provided her with an in-depth understanding of the political landscape and its functions in the United Kingdom.
Audrey Cowie
Audrey is a first level registered nurse with over 40 years’ experience and was appointed in May 2022 as the nurse to sit on the Care Inspectorate Board. She has held non-executive director roles with the Scottish Social Services Council and the General Teaching Council for Scotland
Throughout her career, Audrey has held senior managerial roles in the NHS, advisory positions within the Scottish Government, and regulatory and quality assurance roles at national, regional and local levels.
Audrey has extensive experience in the professional regulation of nurses and other professions, as well as in scrutiny and improvement work across Scotland and Europe. Audrey also has an enduring personal and professional interest in governance, regulation, scrutiny and inspection.
Maria McGill
Maria McGill has 40 years’ experience as a nurse, leader and Chief Executive working in the NHS and voluntary sector.
For the last 10 years of her career Maria was Chief Executive of Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS), Scotland’s only children’s hospice organisation.
Maria is also a member of The Promise Scotland Oversight Board, a Trustee of Marie Curie UK and a Non-Executive Director of NHS NSS.
Rosanna Moore
Rosie Moore is a qualified Social Worker with First Class Honours from the University of Strathclyde. Having grown up in care herself, she has a particular passion for working with looked after children and young people and their families.
In 2017, Rosie was nominated by the Coalition of Care Providers Scotland to become a Discovery Group member for the Independent Care Review. She was then asked to stay on for the duration of the Review, becoming a co-chair of the working group for LOVE and latterly as the participation lead for those with seldom heard voices and young people in secure care.
Rosie is currently at the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS), where she has worked for several years, with a focus on social policy and participation of those with lived experience.
Rosie has won several awards for her work in the sector, including Young Scot’s 30under30 and Strathclyde’s Women in Leadership. Rosie also holds positions on the Management Group of the Each and Every Child Initiative and as a Board Member for Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare (STAF).
Edward McGrachan
Ed McGrachan has had an international career in IT, Telecommunications and Business Transformation, with time spent working for Nortel Networks and BT on major projects in North America, Continental Europe and the UK. He also served as Non-Executive Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee at the Student Awards Agency Scotland, with board oversight of the digital transformation of systems and processes aligning with the Scottish Government’s Digital First strategy.
Ed has worked with various public and charitable organisations; Member of the Diocesan Board of Education for the Church of England in Devon; Treasurer of Citizen Advice in Devon and elected Lead Governor of South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust; providing him with a broad spectrum of Governance experience. He was appointed Chairman of the Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee for West Scotland, a Non-Departmental Public Body working across both devolved and reserved Government sectors in support of Veterans issues.
Currently, he serves as Non-Executive Member at Glasgow Colleges Regional Board, where he chairs the Audit and Assurance Committee. He is an Appointed Member on the Partnership Board of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, where he is a member of the Strategy and Programmes Committee, and the Audit and Standards Committee.
Jennifer Marshall
Jenny Marshall is an experienced unpaid carer who has spent the past 11 years managing a team of carers in her family home to provide high-quality care for her disabled son. She is a strong advocate for inclusion and equality, and she has a passion for promoting excellent care standards for all.
Jenny was the founder director of Mecoco, a social enterprise that provided disabled adults and young people with valuable workplace experience. In addition, she has extensive experience in residential dementia care and community brokerage.
Jenny is now Head of Operations for the Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living. Through her work, Jenny is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those around her.
Peter Murray
Peter Murray has been appointed as Convener of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) with effect from 1 September 2025. He has been appointed as the SSSC Interim Convener since 1 October 2024 and was previously a Council Member from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2022, before being reappointed for a further term from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2025.
Peter brings extensive governance experience to the role. He served as a board member of NHS Lothian for eight years, completing his second term in 2024 as Vice Chair. Peter is currently Chair of Bon Accord Care, an adult social care provider in Aberdeen, and is also a member of the Judiciary Advisory Board for Scotland.
Peter’s leadership and management expertise is underpinned by a 30‑year career with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, where he retired as Assistant Chief Fire Officer in 2016. He holds an MA in Political Studies from the University of Aberdeen.
Evelyn McPhail
Evelyn McPhail is our newly appointed board member from 1 April 2025. Evelyn has been appointed Interim Chair of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. She has 38 years’ experience working in the NHS and Health and Social Care sector until her retirement in 2019. She was the Director of Pharmacy and Medicines for NHS Fife and the Fife Integrated Joint Board of the Health and Social Care Partnership and was responsible for providing strategic leadership, leading on clinical governance, and working with partner organisations in the development and delivery of pharmaceutical care services for the people of Fife.
Evelyn is a retired pharmacist with experience of transformational change, working in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders and managing in a large organisation with a wealth of experience in health and social care. Evelyn was awarded the Scottish Pharmacy Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2019 for her work in Pharmacy and the public sector. Her non-executive roles include six years as a Council member of the General Pharmaceutical Council until April 2020, and Governor of Fife College in February 2020, until her appointment as Vice Chair of Fife College in the autumn of 2024.