Collaborating and networking

Promise Learning Collaboratives

Promise Learning Collaboratives are in-person sessions facilitated by The Promise Scotland.

There are multiple Collaboratives a year, which are hosted in different places across Scotland. All the places are fully funded, and they are designed for the workforce—including frontline workers, team managers, and senior leaders.

Each Collaborative is themed around one of the five foundations of the promise, which are also the foundations of Plan 24-30.

Role of our Learning Collaboratives

Collaboratives allow corporate parents and those working in children’s services roles to collaborate on a national scale, while sharing practice, learning, and developing solutions to problems.

What is learnt from attendees will be used to inform future support, collaboration and learning, as well as to inform our online learning sessions.

This helps give a clear picture of what’s happening across Scotland to keep the promise— which will in turn will inform Plan 24-30’s route maps.

It will also help the wider workforce, as learning from Collaboratives will be shared on this website.

For those unable to attend an in-person event, there will be follow up sessions online to allow you to contribute to key discussions and help capture learning and potential solutions.

Promise Online Sessions

Promise Online Sessions will be offered throughout the year, providing opportunities for learning, collaboration, and engagement.

They are:

• hosted online
• fully funded for attendees
• facilitated by The Promise Scotland and other partners.

These online sessions – which are scheduled for dates after the in-person learning collaboratives – will allow participants to contribute to key discussions, share and help capture learning, and explore potential solutions to any barriers around keeping the promise.

There will also be separate online sessions throughout the year on specific topics, including:

• webinars
• workshops
• briefings
• spotlight sessions
• masterclasses.

They will share new information, tools, and insights, offering timely updates and key messages.

What's been learned

Find out what was shared and learned at previous Learning Collaboratives and online sessions, by clicking on the links below. The sessions have been ordered under the five foundations of the promise and Plan 24-30.

Networks

Networks provide a space for local learning around the promise to be shared.

Regional networks are facilitated by The Promise Scotland, bringing together promise leads from specific regions across Scotland to network and collaborate. Currently, half of the 32 local authorities are engaged in these regional networks.

Where no organisation is currently taking the lead, we also help to develop networks around particular sectors and areas of interest. This includes networks for sectors such as as health and the third sector— helping to ensure that promise-related work continues to progress and develop in the absence of a dedicated coordinating body in these areas.

Contact The Promise Scotland to learn if your local authority is part of a network.

Meetings with key partners

We also support direct engagement between organisations and The Promise Scotland team, which will always be centred on Plan 24-30.

Support in these meetings is about:

• helping organisations in aligning and contributing to Plan 24-30
• understanding different perspectives that will help to inform policy development.