Transformational change across organisations is essential to keep the promise. To understand the work and pace of change, Scotland needs an agreed way of tracking progress and to ensure it is felt in the lives and experiences of children, families, and the care experienced community.
Understanding progress across the breadth and depth of the promise requires very different types of data, collected and analysed at different levels, at different frequencies, and in different ways. That means three questions need to be answered for Scotland to say it understands progress.
When taken together, the answers to these three questions are collectively referred to as The Promise Story of Progress. It is not possible to tell the overall story of progress without focusing on all three questions.
By blending different types and levels of data and information together to answer these questions, The Promise Story of Progress seeks to address the disconnect between what matters to children, young people and families and the recorded data to tell a more rounded story of the progress being made towards the promise.
The Promise Story of Progress is hosted as a ‘Scotland owned’ output on the Plan 24-30 website. Maintenance and updating is shared between The Promise Scotland, the Scottish Government and COSLA.
The Promise Progress Framework has been created to set the frame for The Promise Story of Progress questions to be answered using data from the various levels required. Its first iteration is populated with national level data to answer the question, 'how is Scotland doing in its progress towards keeping the promise?'. It will continue to evolve as Scotland implements the changes required. No individual organisation owns the Framework nor does it function specifically to meet their reporting needs.
Download the first iteration of The Promise Progress Framework to ‘Understand how Scotland is doing in its progress towards keeping the promise'.
The Promise Progress Framework
Find out more about the milestones and next steps in The Promise Story of Progress in the data and information route-map.