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The Promise Scotland supports individuals and organisations in their work around keeping the promise.

It provides support:

  • where change can happen at a local level, and
  • where change can happen within national organisations, without the need for wider structural change.
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Getting support

How support works

The Support Team helps to foster change across the whole of Scotland.

Support resources

Resources to help the workforce keep and understand the promise.

Design School

The Promise Scotland provides support and tools to help drive significant change.

Promise Design Tools

The Promise Design Tools use the principles of Service Design to help Scotland in its work to keep the promise.

About the support team

The support team help amplify change

When change happens, the support team can help to amplify and spread it. It can help a good idea from one place become adopted across more of Scotland.

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And the support team help foster innovation

The support team can provide tools and help for people and organisations, so that they can come up with new and better ways for change to happen.

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Support in your area

Promise Delivery Partners: Connecting Scotland’s workforce

Each of Scotland's Local Authorities is assigned its own Promise Delivery Partner, who help connect Scotland together through:

  • bringing people together by region, and
  • bringing people together through a shared interest.

And they support Promise Leads and Promise Teams in local authorities, while:

  • promoting collaborative working,
  • delivering specialist advice,
  • delivering support, and
  • sharing good practice.

In this way, they help to translate local action into national learning.

Promise Delivery Partners are active across Scotland’s communities

Every 6 to 8 weeks, each Local Authority in Scotland has a support meeting with their Promise Delivery Partner.

Promise Delivery Partners also provide support in specific online forums for change.

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Find your local Promise Delivery Partner

Select your Local Authority below to find out who the Promise Delivery Partner is in your area.

Support Team - Support

Support Team

Support

Alison Sutherland - Head of Support

Alison Sutherland

Head of Support

Alison leads The Promise Scotland’s Support Team which is focused on engaging with a wide range of organisations to #KeepThePromise. This includes:

  • Building new ways of working
  • Identifying and sharing/communicating effective practice
  • Facilitating networking events
  • Nurturing Communities of Interest, and
  • Driving reformed local and national activity

Alison’s background is in Children’s Services with experience as Head of Children, Families and Justice Services in a local authority, and previously in Education as a former Head Teacher of two secondary schools. She also serves as a non-executive Board Member at Ayrshire College.

Alison also manages PDP activities for:

  • Aberdeen City, and
  • Aberdeenshire.
Asima Hussain - Finance and Central Services Manager

Asima Hussain

Finance and Central Services Manager

Asima works alongside colleagues across the organization to deliver services and provide advice and support on all aspects of finance, risk, HR and business planning.

She also leads on:

  • regulatory requirements ensuring legal and financial compliance, and
  • organisational risk management and mitigation processes.
Careen Rennie - Implementation Lead

Careen Rennie

Implementation Lead

Careen listens to and collaborates with people and organisations across Scotland to drive forward the change needed to #KeepThePromise.

She’s passionate about relationship-based practice, leading teams to support positive outcomes and driving change through partnership working and collaboration.

She also acts as Promise Delivery Partner for Falkirk.

Celeste Berteau - Doing Data Differently Manager
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Celeste Berteau

Doing Data Differently Manager

To #KeepThePromise, we need to do data and evidence differently.

As the Doing Data Differently Manager, Celeste oversees projects around improving data in Scotland.

The first of these is The Promise Data Map, which will allow us to understand what information is collected and shared throughout Scotland.

Chloe Riddell - Policy Lead
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Chloe Riddell

Policy Lead

Chloe leads The Promise Scotland’s policy work. She helps to make sure that Scotland's policy and legislative framework and scaffolding is effective at upholding and enabling the implementation of The Promise.

She works to support the translation of these laws and policies into practical changes for children and families.

Claire Burns - Strategy and Development Lead
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Claire Burns

Strategy and Development Lead

Claire's job is to understand where Scotland is in its journey to #KeepthePromise by 2030.

With her colleagues, she works to collate and analyse data from many different sources. They use what they find from that data to drive accountability, innovation and change.

Claire Stuart - Head of Insights
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Claire Stuart

Head of Insights

Claire leads the Insights Team and is a member of The Promise Scotland’s Senior Leadership Team. The work she leads splits into two parallel programmes:

  • data, information and evidence used to track and monitor Scotland’s progress to #KeepThePromise and,
  • data, information and evidence as improvement tools across the change landscape.
Clare Morris - Promise Delivery Partner
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Clare Morris

Promise Delivery Partner

Clare has a background in early childhood education and innovation. She is passionate about unlocking learning that will drive change to keep the promise.

As a Promise Delivery Partner, she covers:

  • East Ayrshire,
  • North Ayrshire, and
  • South Ayrshire.
Emma Young - Policy Officer

Emma Young

Policy Officer

Emma supports the Policy Lead and broader public affairs team to develop evidence-based policy positions and advice.

By doing this, she helps decision makers make sure the conclusions of the Independent Care Review are embedded across Scotland’s policy and legislative developments to #KeepThePromise.

Fiona Robertson - Promise Delivery Partner
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Fiona Robertson

Promise Delivery Partner

Fiona has worked in Community Learning and Development with young people, adults and families. She is passionate about people having a voice, which helps shape better outcomes for all.

Fiona covers:

  • Clackmannanshire,
  • Dumfries and Galloway,
  • East Renfrewshire,
  • North Lanarkshire,
  • Renfrewshire,
  • South Lanarkshire, and
  • Stirling.
Gillian Graham - Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator

Gillian Graham

Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator

Gillian supports The Promise Scotland's Chair and Chief Executive by planning and organising their time.

She also:

  • leads on governance and assurance processes
  • supports the Directors of the Promise Scotland, and
  • co-ordinates meetings and support for The Oversight Board.
Greig Ferguson - Promise Delivery Partner

Greig Ferguson

Promise Delivery Partner

Greig’s background is in child and family social work, and he has worked with families throughout his career. He is passionate about using restorative practices to support families. 

As a Promise Delivery Partner, Greig works in partnership with:

  • Angus,
  • Fife,
  • Dundee, and
  • Perth and Kinross.
Hannah Gould - Senior Strategic Communications Officer

Hannah Gould

Senior Strategic Communications Officer

Hannah’s role is to communicate the learning, hope, and support needed to inspire action to #KeepthePromise.

She helps ensure the right information is delivered to the right people, clearly and effectively.

Her experience lies in strategic communications and storytelling which she uses to highlight Scotland's journey of change to a place where children and young people grow up loved, safe and respected.

Laura Sharpe - Promise Delivery Partner
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Laura Sharpe

Promise Delivery Partner

Laura has a background in the third sector, leading participation to influence policy, practice and systems change. It’s important to her that Scotland offers inclusive and equitable support— to children, young people, families, and the workforce.

Laura covers:

  • Argyll and Bute,
  • East Dunbartonshire,
  • Glasgow,
  • Inverclyde, and
  • West Dunbartonshire.
Louise Whitelock - Promise Delivery Partner
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Louise Whitelock

Promise Delivery Partner

Louise’s background covers quality assurance and senior leadership within the third sector— and throughout her career, she’s worked alongside children and families.  Equality and inclusion remain important to Louise, with a particular focus of intersectionality.

She also covers:

  • East Lothian,
  • Edinburgh,
  • Midlothian,
  • Scottish Borders , and
  • West Lothian.
Mhairi Glen - Senior Finance and HR Officer
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Mhairi Glen

Senior Finance and HR Officer

Mhairi provides organisational support to the whole Promise Scotland Team, focusing on finance and HR. Heading up the administration team, she's never without a list, coffee and IT tips and tricks.

Morag Burnett - Head of Governance
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Morag Burnett

Head of Governance

Morag works with colleagues across Scotland to ensure that there is clear accountability to #KeepThePromise nationally and locally.

She makes sure that The Promise Scotland’s own governance and operations are excellent, and runs the secretariat that supports The Oversight Board.

Nick Jedrzejewski - Strategic Communications Lead

Nick Jedrzejewski

Strategic Communications Lead

Nick leads communications at The Promise Scotland, looking at the best ways to tell the stories of change happening across the country, and developing communications strategies and plans to make change happen.

Rebecca Rierson-Lott - Analysis Coordinator
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Rebecca Rierson-Lott

Analysis Coordinator

Rebecca analyses data for the Insights team around how Scotland can improve, within the work programs:

  • Using Money Differently— how Scotland can spend money more effectively, and
  • Doing Data Differently— how Scotland can gather data in a way that's centred on children and families.

Her work includes:

  • supporting projects,
  • designing and structuring projects, and
  • analysing text of reports and publications.
Robert Shepherd - Online Tools Manager
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Robert Shepherd

Online Tools Manager

The Promise Scotland manages several online tools. Robert works to make sure these tools will:

  • be clear,
  • be accessible, and
  • work together in a way that makes sense to their users.
Stephanie Crisp - Improvement Lead
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Stephanie Crisp

Improvement Lead

Steph works with others to understand how data, evidence, and research can be used to improve things so that Scotland can #KeepThePromise. 

Her job is to make sure that this work stays rooted in what the Independent Care Review heard about what matters to children and families.

Thomas Carlton - Implementation Lead (On Secondment)
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Thomas Carlton

Implementation Lead (On Secondment)

Thomas and his colleagues seek to get alongside all those looking to keep the Promise, to respond to their support needs in order to best drive the necessary required change.

It is a privilege to lead the Promise Delivery Partners in this work, which currently has a focus on supporting local areas and organisations funded from The Promise Partnership.

Thomas is currently on secondment to Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum) where he is leading the Moving on Change Programme.

Tom Boyd - Promise Delivery Partner

Tom Boyd

Promise Delivery Partner

Tom has a background working alongside the care experienced community in both the third and public sector. He is passionate about fresh approaches to enabling relationships between the workforce and children, young people and families.

Tom covers:

  • Highland,
  • Moray,
  • Orkney,
  • Shetland, and
  • Na h-Eileanan Siar.