11th ACSS Plenary - July 2023

AGENDA

• Welcome and Introductions
• Declaration of Interests
• Actions from last meeting and Chairs Update
• Update from FSA Chair
• Secretariate Update
• Working Group Updates
• GSR Review
• KSN Event Reflections
• Analytics Unit Update
• SAC Review
• Science Council Update
• Forward Look
• AOB
• Close

Summary

The 11^th Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Science (ACSS) included updates from: the Secretariat, on staffing changes and reflections on the recent ACSS networking event; Working Group chairs, on recent activity of current groups; the Head of Social Science, on the recent independent Government Social Research (GSR) review of FSA’s Social Science Team; and the Heads of Analytics Unit and Social Science, on recent activity and priorities going forward.

Additionally:

• Update from Professor Susan Jebb, Chair of the FSA. 
• Nat Gladstone provided an overview of the Science Advisory Committees (SAC) review and the outcomes of this for the ACSS.
• John O’Brien, the interim chair of the Science Council (SC), gave an update on recent activity.
• Members discussed potential future work for the ACSS. 

Associated Papers

Paper 11.1 ACSS Secretariat Update (July 2023)

Paper 11.2 Kitchen Life 2 Working Group - Update (July 2023)

Paper 11.3 Economics Working Group - Update (July 2023)

Paper 11.4 Wider Consumer Interests Working Group - Update (July 2023)

Paper 11.5 Assurance Working Group - Update (July 2023)

Paper 11.6 FSA Analytics Unit Update (July 2023)

11th meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Science (July 2023) Minutes