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Dec 18, 2024

New Framework to understand progress towards keeping Scotland’s promise

A new framework published today (Wednesday, 18 December 2024) gives the first high-level understanding of progress towards keeping the promise.

A new framework published today gives the first high-level understanding of progress towards keeping the promise — that the conclusions of Scotland’s Independent Care Review will be implemented in full.

The Promise Progress Framework brings together nearly 50 different streams of national data into one place, to start to answer the question of how Scotland is doing as it works towards keeping the promise.

It was created by:

  • The Promise Scotland
  • The Scottish Government
  • COSLA.

With input from:

  • relevant Scottish Government analytical divisions
  • nine local authorities
  • members of the Promise Collective, including:
    • Public Health Scotland
    • the Improvement Service
    • CELCIS
    • Who Cares? Scotland
    • the Care Inspectorate
    • Police Scotland
    • Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

The first step in telling a story in progress

The Promise Progress Framework is the first step in telling the story of progress around the promise, which will look at:

  • how Scotland is doing in its progress to keep the promise
  • how organisations are doing in their work to keep the promise
  • if the care community feels the impact of the promise being kept

It represents the first time that this national level data relating to care experienced children and young people has been brought together in one place, to look at how Scotland is doing and create a structure for answering all three questions.

How is the Framework structured?

The data within The Promise Progress Framework is ordered under:

  • vision statements of what Scotland will look like when the promise is kept
  • outcomes that are needed to be achieved to get there and
  • indicators, the data which show where Scotland was in 2020 when the promise was made and where it is as of the latest data. 

For each indicator, there is information on what we know and what the data can start to tell us— published by a range of organisations with a responsibility for keeping the promise. It includes data around:

  • health
  • inspection
  • social work
  • poverty
  • education

Claire Stuart, Head of Insights at The Promise Scotland, said:

“The Promise Progress Framework is a way to better understand and organise national level data that relates to care experienced children and young people. It allows any individual or organisation to use it in a way that works for them, or to highlight where more work and evidence is needed.

“However, national data can’t tell the whole story. The most important next step is knowing if care experienced children and young people are feeling the impact of the promise being kept. For example, the indicator on the number and rate of children in the ‘care system’ in Scotland during the year cannot tell you what life is like for the children who are in care, or those who are on the edges of care.

“The Framework also highlights where there are gaps in the data specifically relating to care experienced children and young people. But by bringing the data together in one place for the first time, there is now a clearer national picture than ever before on what we know, what we don’t know and what we need to know.

“It means that all those who care about creating change, and those have the power to act in making change happen, can look in one place and get an idea of where action is needed most urgently.”

The Framework sits on the Plan 24-30 website, which sets out Scotland’s route map to keeping the promise.

Access the Framework here.

to find out more about The Promise in Aberdeen, contact

Gette Cobban

Senior Development Officer (The Promise)

ACVO TSI

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