Promise Partnership showcase

YMCA Edinburgh's project involved hiring an Engagement Worker to explore the needs and experiences of children with care experience, and trialling additional support to families.

This Scotland-wide service redesign supports staff and organisations by developing resources and training, to make sure the needs and rights of brothers and sisters are:

• acknowledged,
• understood, and
• implemented

in care planning.

The Advisory Board provides a relationship-based and meaningful co-production space for young people to inform and guide the work of Fostering Network.

Using the data collected through open call work, this project looked to co-produce practice principles. It aimed to further embed voice of care experienced families into how services are designed and delivered.

This project supported Action for Children to work in partnership with Edinburgh Council. Together, they co-designed and tested a contextual safeguarding approach focusing on child sexual exploitation.

This project aimed to shift process and practice, by appointing two Champions to make sure Lifelong Links is offered to everyone aged five years and over at their statutory 72 hour review.

This Scotland-wide research focuses on young people who are imprisoned.

It supports putting improved processes and structures in place so that these young people can keep up their relationships with brothers and sisters.

This project supports foster carers to sustain homes for children and young people for longer, helping to keep brothers and sisters together.

This project explored alternatives to traditional procurement, establishing tests of change around how children's services can be planned, procured and delivered.

This project is focused on:

• improving children's rights in service delivery, and
• placing voice and participation at the heart of service design across Scotland's Home-Start organisations.

This project worked with young people to develop a youth forum, InVoice.

This service project focuses on implementing Lifelong Links models.

This project aimed for partners to use their collective experience to support children and families’ involvement in designing services.

This project recruited a Family Wellbeing Support Worker to work with families who have siblings in care, or on the edge of care.

This project involves continuing to adjust internal infrastructure— including creating a new, specialised legal service for young people who are in conflict with the law.

This project looks to make it possible for parents with a learning disability and their children to remain living together, by providing supported accommodation with a Shared Lives Carer.

This project supports Cross Reach to use the existing structure of Design Teams – which include children and young people with lived experience – to:

• look at transitions between services, then
• use co-design to develop and implement improvements.

This project created a virtual village, offering innovative support –including coaching and learning opportunities – to children, young people and parents.

This Scotland-wide research evaluates current services to inform development and scaling up of the STAR model. By doing this, it aims to share the model as practice guidance across Scotland.

This project aims to develop an approach to allow people to get back in touch with their former foster carers.

This project aims to develop a new approach to continuing relationships within fostering, to support foster carers and young people to stay in touch into adult life.

This project collates, maps and understands the needs of brothers and sisters in the Scottish Borders. It focuses on maintaining and reconnecting brother and sister relationships within a rural area.

This project supports young people who are moving on to build stable relationships in their lives.

This project created a free practitioner's toolkit around managing transitions.

This project researched whether offering a range of opportunities to young people would ensure their voices were at the heart of any future vision and strategy.

With Kids created a framework to gather children's views without impacting on therapeutic relationships and processes.