About The Promise:

Resources

Find out how you and your organistion can work to #KeepThePromise with these handy resources tailored towards rasing awareness about the rights of care experienced children in Scotland. 

Plan 24-30

Plan 24-30 is Scotland’s route map to #KeepThePromise by 2030. It has a static destination— to #KeepThePromise by 2030. However, as Scotland makes progress, its contents will evolve. Read more about the work to create Plan 24-30 in ‘Reflect, Refocus, Reset – Plan 24-30.’

The Promise Progress Framework

The Promise Progress Framework sets the frame for all questions in The Promise Story of Progress to be answered. At its launch in December 2024, it contains the national indicators required to answer the question ‘how is Scotland doing in its progress towards keeping the promise?’

The Promise Oversight Board Report - Year 3

The Promise Oversight Board holds Scotland to account around whether it’s doing enough to #KeepThePromise.

Find out more at thepromise.scot/oversight-board and read the latest report below.

Independent Care Review Report: The Promise

The Promise report tells Scotland what it must do to make sure its most vulnerable children feel loved— and have the childhood they deserve.

Independent Care Review Report: The Pinky Promise

The pinky promise report tells younger readers what Scotland must do to make sure its most vulnerable children feel loved— and have the childhood they deserve.

Plan 21-24

Plan 21-24 sets out 25 actions which Scotland must take by 2024 in order to #KeepThePromise.

Change Programme One

The Promise Scotland’s initial change programme setting out what needs to happen to #KeepThePromise, and where more progress needs to be made.

Keeping The Promise implementation plan

The Promise implementation plan sets out Scotland’s actions and commitments to Keep the Promise for care experienced children, young people and their families. It contributes to the ambition for every child in Scotland to grow up loved, safe and respected so that they realise their full potential.

The Promise Oversight Board Reports - Year 1 & 2

The Promise Oversight Board holds Scotland to account around whether it’s doing enough to #KeepThePromise. Find out more at thepromise.scot/oversight-board and read the reports below

News and updates from The Promise

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Corporate Parenting: A Collective Responsibility in Fulfilling The Promise in Aberdeen

Corporate Parenting: A Collective Responsibility in Fulfilling The Promise in Aberdeen

The Promise, launched in 2020, is the commitment made to our children and young people after the largest ever review in Scotland of our care system. The aim is to create equity across the lives of all our children and young people, working to give everyone the best start in life and the best opportunities possible.

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New Framework to understand progress towards keeping Scotland’s promise

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 — 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.

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