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Report THREE: Scotland is behind schedule— but still can keep the promise by 2030
Created: 25/02/2025
News/Events Category: Children and Families
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The Oversight Board have published their Report THREE to monitor Scotland’s progress to #KeepThePromise.
As 2025 marks the halfway point to keeping the promise, the report highlights that progress is behind schedule but maintains that the necessary change is possible through action, bravery, and courage. This is a really important year: an opportunity to reflect on all the positive changes that have happened so far and focus on what still needs to change.
The report focuses on Whole Family Support and the Workforce. It found issues including short term funding, a stretched workforce with recruitment and retention issues, and a need for urgent investment. The Oversight Board are calling for all responsible for delivering the promise to focus efforts, work together, and ask for and accept support where necessary.
However, they also report on the significant progress that has been made, and the “commitment and goodwill” of those responsible for delivering it. Because of this, they remain hopeful and determined that the promise can be kept by 2030.
Five years since the promise was made, The Promise Scotland has also been reflecting on the significant number of positive changes made by people working hard to keep the promise.
These include:
- The introduction of a whole family wellbeing fund to support local service transformation
- Improved work to keep brothers and sisters together
- Passing laws, including the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act which has ended the detention of under 18s in Young Offenders Institutions, and the UN Convention on the Rights of a child
- The introduction of payments, including the Care Experience Student Bursary and the minimum standard allowance for foster and kinship carers
However, the organisation is calling for everyone to work together to ensure that positive changes are built upon, with the pace of work quickened, to ensure changes are being felt by all children young people, and families who experience care.
Read the latest Oversight Board report here.
Find out about the positive changes that have happened on The Promise Scotland website.
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