Hearing structure and sequence
The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry has adopted a thematic approach to its investigations and hearings, giving priority to evidence from people most impacted by the pandemic in Scotland, including bereaved relatives, children and young people, healthcare workers and business owners.
This approach seeks to bring the experiences of people in Scotland to the forefront of the Inquiry's investigations, ensuring the human impact of the pandemic is captured.
The themes are:
- health and social care;
- education and young people;
- finance, business and welfare;
- public sector response.
The Inquiry will first look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across all of these themes, before moving to examining the implementation of measures, and key-decision making.
More information about which Terms of Reference will be covered in each theme will be made available as investigations progress and engagement with core participants and other interested parties continues.
Since these themes are interdependent, there will be areas of overlap. The Inquiry will adopt a flexible approach to ensure that evidence which straddles more than one theme will be considered across all relevant themes.