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You can use the search function below to find a variety of resources to help you in keeping the promise, or finding specific work from The Promise Scotland.

We also have a range of composite stories— which show what life was like for children and young people before the promise was made, and what their lives would be like when the promise was kept.

 

 

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Summary of the Independent Strategic Advisor's advice note around intensive family support.

Advice note setting out what underpins the advice to make Intensive Family Support available to all children and families who need it, whenever they need it, for as long as they need it.

Guide to help understand organisational conditions which influence effective information sharing— then identify practical opportunities for improvement.

Guide to help identify opportunities which enable appropriate and responsible sharing, while protecting individuals’ rights and information.

Guide to help reflect on current practice, build confidence, identify opportunities for improvement, and contribute to conversations.

Guide to help understanding around whether data-sharing frameworks enable or obstruct the sharing they’re meant to support.

Data Sharing Infographic for Senior Leadership

Learning Collaborative resource

Infographic showing how culture, processes, training and systems interact to enable or obstruct information sharing.

Overview of data protection considerations around sharing data and information appropriately.

Data Sharing Infographic for Frontline Workers

Data and Information Sharing resource

A practical illustration of what helps frontline staff share information confidently and safely.

A concise overview of the regulatory and policy considerations that can shape how organisations approach data and information sharing.

Data Sharing Infographic for Children and Families

Data and Information Sharing resource

A guide for care experienced children, young people and their families on what information is kept about you, who can see it, and how to ask for it.

A pack to support organisations in understanding and documenting risks, roles and responsibilities associated with data sharing.

Practical demonstration environment exploring how person-centred, transparent and secure data sharing could be represented and understood.

Isla's Composite Data Flow Journey (Slide Deck)

Data and Information Sharing resource

Presentation exploring use of composite stories to understand how data and information moves between organisations and systems.

An assessment of the systems and architecture which underpins public service integration and data sharing across organisations.

Research examining the training and development needs of the workforce in relation to data and information sharing.

A Review of What Good Data Sharing Looks Like

Data and Information Sharing resource

Review of international examples of effective data and information sharing, with examples of progress and successful practice in Scotland.

Work exploring a way to visualise who can access a care-experienced child’s data within complex information-sharing arrangements.

Research exploring experiences of data protection specialists and frontline workers when making decisions about data and information sharing.

Research examining organisational approaches to risk, and how risk influences data and information-sharing decisions.

The Independent Strategic Advisor's report gathering her initial reflections on visiting local areas across Scotland.

Summary of the Independent Strategic Advisor's first report around her local area visits.

The Promise Scotland's response to the Scottish Government's consultation on legal aid reform.

Summary of the Independent Strategic Advisor's Advice Note on putting a prevention approach into practice.

Paper on a possible starting point for the framework, to be read alongside "Prevention: from ambition to practice."

Strategic Investment: Disinvestment

Reports | Correspondence

Paper provided to the Promise Cabinet Sub-Committee in November 2024.

Advice Note from the Independent Strategic Advisor on putting a prevention approach into practice.

Summary of Advice Note to the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform from the Independent Strategic Advisor.

Appendices to the Advice Note to the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform from the Independent Strategic Advisor.

Advice Note to the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform from the Independent Strategic Advisor.

September 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

Summary of the Independent Strategic Advisor's Halfway point report around her work programme.

Halfway point report on the Independent Strategic Advisor's work programme.

September 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

This paper highlights how provisions in the new Act make changes to the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, and sets out The Promise Scotland's understanding of what the provisions mean in practice.

July 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

PDF version of July 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

Minutes for the April 2026 meeting of the Audit Risk Committee.

Printable poster explaining why voice is one of the five foundations of Plan 24-30.

Printable poster explaining why family is one of the five foundations of Plan 24-30.

Printable poster explaining why care is one of the five foundations of Plan 24-30.

Printable poster explaining why people are one of the five foundations of Plan 24-30.

Printable poster explaining why scaffolding is one of the five foundations of Plan 24-30.

Minutes for the twentieth meeting of The Promise Scotland's Directors.

May 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

PDF version of May 2026's newsletter from The Promise Scotland.

Briefing on the promise sent to all MSPs at the start of the 2026 session of the Scottish Parliament.

Slideshow for presentations around the promise and Plan 24-30, explaining the background behind both.