The Promise Partnership
“The Promise Scotland is responsible for driving the work of change demanded by the findings of the Independent Care Review.” Learn more about The Promise Scotland.
The Promise Partnership offers funding and support to organisations and collaborations to #KeepThePromise and help drive forward change that matters to children, young people and families.
The Promise Partnership Advisory Group help to shape the process and the Decision Makers Panel bring a range of skills as well as their own experience of the ‘care system.’
In June 2021, the Deputy First Minister confirmed a commitment of £12m (for 2021 – 2024) to the Promise Partnership Fund to help #KeepThePromise. We are delighted that following an open tendering exercise, Corra was chosen to deliver the Promise Partnership Fund over the next three years.
Over the last few months, Corra has been working closely with colleagues in Scottish Government, the sector, the advisory group, and decision makers panel to shape the criteria and refresh the application process for future funding phases.
Additional Promise Partnership funding opportunities may become available, and if you would like to be kept informed, you can sign up to our mailing list here.
Keep The Promise Fund Round 2
Keep The Promise Fund Round 2 is now OPEN!
Closing date is Noon on Monday 10th July 2023.
In response to feedback, Round 2 will be focused on the same thematic challenge areas:
- Workforce
- Education
- Youth Justice & Rights
You can find the criteria and challenge briefs here:
A Supported Workforce – Challenge Brief
Supportive School Structure Right to Education – Challenge Brief
Youth Justice and Rights – Challenge Brief
You can find our FAQ’s on the fund here.
To find out whether your proposal is a good fit please complete the eligibility questionnaire
If you missed the information session held on Tuesday 23 May, you can watch it here.
Keep The Promise Fund Round 1
Keep The Promise fund round 1 is now closed. Please find the full list of grants made below.
This investment aims to support the sector to think differently and challenge ways of working.
Keep The Promise fund is focused on three challenge areas:
- A Supported Workforce
- Supportive School Structure (Right to Education)
- Youth Justice and Rights
Organisation, grant amount, Local Authority area and description of award and theme:
| Organisation Name | Grant Amount Total | Local Authority Area | Description of Award | Theme |
| Action for Children | £250,000 | Glasgow City | AfC and CYCJ will lead a journey-of-change alongside YP by increasing access to rights-based, trauma-informed practice and justice. Increasing workforce confidence/competency by embedding high-quality practice to protect YP and uphold their rights. | Youth Justice and Rights |
| Angus Council | £247,500 | Angus | To develop an approach that keeps children within their families, where it is safe to do so by upskilling the workforce in respect of risk assessment and risk formulation in order to support rights-based interventions. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Articulate Cultural Trust | £250,000 | Scotland-wide | To develop a technical site infrastructure and employ specialist staff to support young people through interactive and digital participation. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
| Autism and Neurodiversity North Scotland | £125,000 | Aberdeen City | To support a pilot study driven by children, young people, families and care workers which will develop new models of working. | A Supportive Workforce |
| CELCIS | £49,087 | Scotland-wide | To support CELCIS and Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group (SPRAG) to develop a reflective group forum for residential care staff across Scotland to focus on practice relating to restraint, allowing exploration of other models. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice | £241,893 | Scotland-wide | To support the development of a new strategic model by creating the ‘Reimagining Justice’ Team. The team will work towards transformational change with an aim of removing all children and young people up to age 26 from adult courts in Scotland by designing an alternative alongside children and young people. | Youth Justice and Rights |
| Children in Scotland Ltd | £250,000 | Edinburgh City | To support targeted learning programmes, which are co-designed by those who are experiencing the school structure – in this case, care experienced children and young people, those on the edge of care and those who support them. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
| Circle | £135,000 | East Lothian | To invest in resources that support, nurture, and develop the workforce and families to bring about change. | A Supportive Workforce |
| City of Edinburgh Council | £194,556 | Edinburgh City | To reduce the criminalisation of care experienced children and maximise the use of alternative approaches. | Youth Justice and Rights |
| Community Law Advice Network | £250,000 | Scotland-wide | To develop an approach that offers children and young people with care experience access to justice through child-centered, trauma informed legal services. | Youth Justice and Rights |
| Cyrenians | £240,000 | Edinburgh City | To support the implementation of a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) Approach. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Falkirk Council | £217,000 | Falkirk | To support the implementation of a service re-design which will create infrastructure to provide a supportive base and help test new policies and practice. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Family Journeys | £235,356 | East Lothian | Working collaboratively to ensure the judicial system and family courts are more trauma informed and responsive to the voice of children and young people. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Foster Care Connect | £71,096 | Scottish Borders | To support the development of a curriculum that supports therapeutic approaches. This will be informed by foster carers and children and young peoples views on what they need from the people who care for them. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Glasgow City Council | £70,585 | Glasgow City | Working closely with Education psychology to support children and young people to re-connect with education. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
| Napier University Development Trust (Hub for Success) | £214,019 | Edinburgh City | Taking a co-design approach, they will develop training programmes and upskill learners to ensure they are leading on and influencing change across workforce and partner organisations. | A Supportive Workforce |
| One Parent Families Scotland | £240,139 | Edinburgh City | To appoint a Wellbeing Manager to ensure workforce are supported and are trauma informed. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Passion4Fusion | £125,000 | Edinburgh City | To recruit a Promise Lead to support families and the workforce with a view to help bridge the cultural gap. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Place2Be | £103,840 | Glasgow City | Working in collaboration with other partners, they will support the workforce by strengthening agencies’ understanding of engagement in reflective practice. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Renfrewshire Council | £150,000 | Renfrewshire | To reduce exclusion of children and young people with care experience by ensuring they have a key person who is their advocate, who will support their attendance and participation in education. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
| Scottish Attachment in Action | £154,000 | West Dunbartonshire | To develop an evaluation based on what the workforce needs in relation to education. | A Supportive Workforce |
| Seamab Learning & Care Services | £50,000 | Perth & Kinross | This project will enable staff to build on their current expertise through models of understanding which will allow staff to reduce the requirement for physical intervention and restraint. | A Supportive Workforce |
| South Ayrshire Council | £229,937 | South Ayrshire | Working collaboratively with schools, this investment will support the co-production of a tailored curriculum offer with children and young people with care experience. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
| Staf | £250,000 | Glasgow City | This investment will create a skilled workforce that supports young people in transition through care, moving on to aftercare. Developing an accredited qualification which will include trauma-informed/relationship-based practice and regulatory knowledge development. | A Supportive Workforce |
| The Princes Trust | £236,595 | Scotland-wide | To carry out an internal review to understand why they are under-serving young people with care experience. The learning from this will drive and embed good practice in Scotland, the Trust UK-wide, and in the wider youth work and employability sector. | A Supportive Workforce |
| The Robertson Trust | £170,000 | Scotland-wide | This investment will enable the expansion of work with Voices of Experience to include more diversity in experience, in areas such as youth and criminal justice. | A Supportive Workforce |
| The Why Not? Trust | £106,972 | Stirling | This investment will enable relational work within the care sector to help further understanding of the importance of strong, positive relationships and who and what impact they can have on the care community. | Youth Justice and Rights |
| Winning Scotland | £62,800 | South Lanarkshire | This investment will support the co-development of growth mindset training/support for the significant adults in the education of care-experienced children – providing tools, language and confidence to instill them with self-belief and ambition. | Right to Education |
| Y sort it | £104,164 | West Dunbartonshire | To appoint two Care Connection Workers to offer those aged 10-16 yrs an opportunity to access additional support appropriate to their learning needs. Care Connections primary aim would be to raise attainment and narrow the attainment gap between care experienced children who are looked after at home and their peers. | Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) |
How funding decisions are made
How are funding decisions made?
- All applications are presented to a decision makers panel. The decision makers panel bring a range of professional skills and expertise as well as have lived experience of Scotland’s ‘care system’. The Panel are there to shape and design the decision-making process and review all applications against an agreed set of funding principles. A Timeline of what this has looked like can be viewed below
- The funding principles, criteria and application materials for the Promise Partnership are shaped by an independent advisory group.
- Lessons from previous funding rounds of the Promise Partnership are incorporated to help support the decision-making process.
- Corra Foundation staff provide support and guidance to both the decision makers panel and Advisory Group.
The Promise Partnership Advisory Group is integral to shaping this process. Thank you to those involved, including:
- Lynn Gillies, Fife Council
- Joanne Glennie, Ypeople
- Carly Glover, Jersey Cares
- Alan Webb, Home-Start
- Kirsty Lee, Angus Council
- Fiona Dyer, University of Strathclyde
- Jo Derrick, Staf
Promise Partnerhsip Timeline:
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Keep the Promise Decisions
All of the funding decisions made by the panel have been mapped across Scotland, this can be viewed below. This is updated after each round of funding from The Promise...
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Decision-Making Process for Keep the Promise
The Decision-Making Panel took the process they designed for the previous rounds of funding and redesigned it to include a second stage video application to enhance and inform the decision-making...
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A Good Childhood Decisions
All of the funding decisions made by the panel have been mapped across Scotland, this can be viewed below. This is updated after each round of funding from The Promise...
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Decision-making Process for A Good Childhood
The Decision-Making Panel further refined their process this round of funding. For A Good Childhood fund the panel followed this process:
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Brothers and Sisters Decisions
All of the funding decisions made by the panel have been mapped across Scotland, this can be viewed below. This is updated after each round of funding from The Promise...
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Decision-Making Process for Brothers and Sisters
The Decision-Making Panel took the process they designed for the previous round of funding and refined this for the Brothers and Sisters decision-making process. For the Brothers and Sisters fund...
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Open Call and Diagnostic Route Decisions
All of the funding decisions made by the panel have been mapped across Scotland, this can be viewed below. This is updated after each round of funding from The Promise...
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Decision-Making Process for Open Call and Diagnostic Routes
A subgroup of members from the Decision-Making Panel came together to design a process for how the panel would make decisions for the fund, this was trialed and refined by...
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A Good Childhood
A Good Childhood is now closed. Please find the full list of grants made below.
This investment aims to build upon or put structures in place that will create the space to think, plan and co-design changes that ensure a Good Childhood. The priority area of A Good Childhood covers eight actions across interconnected areas of work. This funding strand was open to any of the eight but prioritised proposals with a focus on:
- Relationships
- Moving on
- Youth Justice
Organisation, grant amount and Local Authority area:
| Organisation Name | Grant Amount Total | Local Authority Area | Description of Award |
| Aberlour | £99,500 | Scotland-wide | To recruit a Change Manager to review Highland’s current ‘system’ of moving-on supports and pathways. Work will incorporate SAtSD and will ensure active participation of young people. |
| Action for Children (AfC) | £87,676 | Scotland-wide | To support the organisation in working in partnership with Edinburgh council to co-design and test a contextual safeguarding approach focusing on child sexual exploitation. |
| ACVO TSI | £40,000 | Aberdeen City | To appoint a Co-ordinator to engage and facilitate a network with third sector and statutory partners with a focus on SAtSD. |
| AFA Scotland | £69,260 | Scotland-wide | To support the organisation to co-produce a new approach to ensure children and young people maintain loving, consistent relationships with everyone important to them, including developing a toolkit and supporting local authorities to embed within their practice. |
| Angus Council | £100,000 | Angus | To re-design services to ensure early help and flexible provision, including the appointment of a dedicated Senior Practitioner who will lead and co-ordinate the Promise work. |
| Care Visions Fostering | £96,739 | Scotland-wide | To create a virtual village offering innovative support including coaching and learning opportunities to children, young people and parents. |
| Circle | £36,314 | Edinburgh city | Using the data collected through their open call work, they will co-produce practice principles which will further embed voice of care experienced families into how services are designed and delivered. |
| City of Edinburgh | £70,000 | Edinburgh city | To develop a service that offers aftercare support for parents who lose their baby through adoption/permanent care in Edinburgh. |
| CLAN childlaw | £100,000 | Scotland-wide | To continue adjusting internal infrastructure, including creating a new specialised legal service for young people who are in conflict with the law. |
| COVEY | £43,590 | South Lanarkshire | Working collaboratively with children and young people, to hear their voice and adapt delivery models and share learning with partners. |
| Cross Reach | £98,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the organisation to use the existing structure of Design Teams, including children and young people with lived experience, to look at transitions between services, then use co-design to develop and implement improvements. |
| Cyrenians | £100,000 | Edinburgh city | To extend the work of the Youth Engagement Officer to ensure learning from the pilot is embedded in future and current services. |
| Dumfries & Galloway Council | £99,206 | Dumfries & Galloway | To develop a platform for gathering the views of children and young people focusing on providing an approach to children in conflict with the law, taking into account the work nationally to drive forward improvements in Youth Justice. |
| East Dunbartonshire Council | £100,000 | East Dunbartonshire | To support the implementation of Family Group Decision Making within East Dunbartonshire’s Children’s Services. |
| East Renfrewshire Council | £88,000 | East Renfrewshire | To recruit a Project Co-ordinator who will undertake system change planning work to improve transitions for children and young people. |
| Falkirk Council | £95,000 | Falkirk | To shift process and practice by appointing two Champions to ensure Lifelong Links is offered to everyone 5 years+ at the statutory 72 hour review. |
| Fife Council | £100,000 | Fife | To support the recruitment of people with care experience to develop a supportive care community across the seven areas of Fife. |
| Fostering Network | £95,000 | Scotland-wide | To look at introducing Step Up, Step Down programmes, working in partnership with Local Authorities to help keep families together. |
| GCVS | £100,000 | Glasgow City | To support the citywide promotion of a whole systems approach to participation, involving children, young people and families in service design and delivery, to affect change or improvement in their services. |
| Glasgow HSCP | £65,000 | Glasgow City | To conduct a review of Aftercare options, informed by young people, which will build in tests of change based on the feedback from children, young people and families. |
| Home-Start Angus | £35,000 | Angus | To research and implement service redesign, exploring what services are needed to best support families. |
| Home-Start UK | £99,412 | Scotland-wide | 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. |
| HUB for SUCCESS | £83,000 | edinburgh city | To review the work already being done and implement service redesign across the organisation and other partners, encouraging a co-design approach with voice being central. |
| Inspiring Scotland | £67,000 | Scotland-wide | Using learning from the Open Call investment, some of the recommendations that address the gaps in transitions support will be implemented. |
| Midlothian Council | £92,958 | Midlothian | To expand Family Group Decision Making and to ensure all young people will have access to Lifelong Links to enable them to explore their heritage and rekindle important relationships. |
| NHS Grampian | £100,000 | Aberdeen City | To support families whose children are at risk of going into care. There will be a focus on services working together to ensure families are supported with a ‘no wrong door approach’. |
| NSPCC Scotland | £55,000 | Scotland-wide | Working with Family Nurse Partnerships, preventative support will be provided to women in early pregnancy (12-28 weeks), to create a seamless and robust infrastructure. |
| One Parent Families | £87,323 | Scotland-wide | To create capacity to consult with one parent families to better understand experiences from a child’s perspective, and to deliver trauma informed training to all staff. |
| Renfrewshire Council | £100,000 | Renfrewshire | To establish Family Group Decision Making and Lifelong Links services at the 72 hour review after accommodation to identify positive, sustainable relationships. |
| Shared Lives Plus | £77,180 | Scotland-wide | To enable parents with a learning disability and their children to remain living together by providing supported accommodation with a Shared Lives Carer. |
| Shetland Islands Council | £100,000 | Shetland | Building on the organisation’s support for young people moving on, this investment will enable them to focus and embed Family Group Conferencing with an emphasis on supporting those relationships that matter to the child or young person. |
| Speak Out Scotland | £70,000 | Glasgow City | To understand the needs and develop services focused on supporting young people aged 16 – 18 with care experience who have been affected by childhood sexual abuse. |
| STAF | £58,000 | Glasgow City | To employ a qualified Development Worker who will work closely with children and young people and will focus on tackling the disproportionate criminalisation of young people with care experience. |
| West Lothian Council | £100,000 | West Lothian | Collaborative approach with various partners to look at transitional stages and ensure sustainable infrastructure of support. |
| Who Cares? Scotland | £99,091 | Scotland-wide | To develop a scalable blueprint to ensure schools are ‘care aware’ and children and families with care experience have the best opportunities for support. |
| Why Not? Trust | £39,000 | Scotland-wide | To develop a new approach continuing relationships within fostering to support foster carers and young people stay in touch into adult life. |
| Winning Scotland | £45,000 | Scotland-wide | To carry out tests of change and evaluation of delivering/offering growth mindset approach training to staff and care givers. |
| With Kids | £67,500 | Glasgow City | To give the organisation space, time and resources to consider how to establish a framework to gather children’s views without impacting on therapeutic relationships/processes. |
| Yard | £100,000 | Edinburgh city | Gathering data to improve practice and better understand the landscape faced by children and young people who have a disability and are care experienced. |
| YMCA Edinburgh SCIO | £55,378 | Edinburgh city | To recruit an Engagement Worker to explore the needs and experiences of children with care experience, and to trial additional support to families. |
Getting it Right for Brothers and Sisters
Getting it Right for Brothers and Sisters is now closed. Please find full list of awards below.
Getting it Right for Brothers and Sisters was an initial investment of circa £500,000. Based on the quality and depth of proposals, the Decision Makers Panel agreed to increase the budget to approximately £1.4m. Grants of up to £200,000 have been allocated to help organisations understand more about local needs and gather evidence on what works to ensure relationships between brothers and sisters are cherished and protected.
Organisation, grant amount and Local Authority area:
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Promise Partnership Round One Open Call Route
The Open Call Route is now closed. Please find full list of awards below.
Approximately £3m of this investment was administered as a catalyst for change through an open call route. Funding of up to £50,000 was allocated to help organisations create capacity, adapt approaches and work towards cultural shifts and collaboration across the ‘care system‘, reflecting what is important to care experienced children, young people and families.
Organisation, grant amount and Local Authority area:
| Organisation Name | Grant Amount Total | Local Authority | Description of Award |
| Aberdeen City Council | £50,000 | Aberdeen City | To support the secondment of an experienced manager to assist the organisation to begin to improve approaches to offering and providing family support to those who have complex and multiple support needs. |
| Aberdeenshire Council | £50,000 | Aberdeenshire | To support training and development of multi-agency teams, including trauma sensitive practice for all agency staff, motivational interviewing and the further development of a prototype tool for multi-agency data gathering and record keeping. |
| Aberlour | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To undertake a ‘test-of-change’ process in partnership with Tayside Councils and families to test the impact that alleviating poverty and financial hardship has on children at risk of entering care. |
| Action for Children | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To accelerate the Promise Plan and organisational changes, including supporting two new Promise Co-ordinator posts and establishing a board of care experienced CYP to lead and oversee strategy/plans. |
| Adoption and Fostering Alliance (AFA) Scotland | £25,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the costs for the organisation to review current practice and to implement identified changes. |
| Adoption UK Charity | £42,000 | Scotland-wide | To build on and develop the organisation’s commitment to the Promise, including the recruitment of an Engagement Worker with lived experience. |
| Argyll & Bute Council | £50,000 | Argyll & Bute | To develop and test a model and practice framework for innovative integrated holistic family support and early help where poor parental mental health and/or substance misuse are factors. |
| Articulate Cultural Trust | £50,000 | East Renfrewshire | To support the delivery and capacity for the organisation to build electronic means by which to connect people with care experience and offer belonging, as well as personalised services support. This includes the creation of a Digital Access Co-ordinator role. |
| Avenue Confidential | £50,000 | Aberdeen City | To carry out an organisation-wide review of current practice coupled with in-house and externally-provided training, including the recruitment of a part-time Promise Keeper to lead the project. |
| Barnardos | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | For Barnardo’s Scotland to engage Columba 1400 to support staff to embark on a personal and professional journey which will support delivery and implementation of the aspirations of the Promise. |
| Children 1st | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support a project which will allow the organisation to consult, test, develop and evaluate the application of Family Group Decision Making earlier in statutory decision making processes. |
| Children and Families Social Work Services, Dumfries and Galloway Council | £50,000 | Dumfries & Galloway | To support capacity building costs for the development of a package / programme to build staff resilience to keep their skills up to date and to promote early intervention and prevention. |
| Church of Scotland Social Care Council (CrossReach) | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To enable CrossReach to put in place, and support, a dedicated post to improve transitions through hearing the voice of children and their families. |
| Circle | £20,000 | Edinburgh City | To support the organisation to design, implement and develop system and cultural changes, with families and services, which will align Circle’s work more closely with The Promise. This includes increasing the hours of current part time Development Manager. |
| Clackmannanshire Council | £50,000 | Clackmannanshire | To support the new role of a Promise Keeper Champion which will build capacity for the organisation and assist in planning, analysis, policy, service design and coproduction. |
| Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar | £50,000 | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles) | To support a member of staff to drive forward the local authority Promise plans including policies, procedures, language and participation, across all levels of the organisation. |
| Community Law Advice Network | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the redirection of the legal expertise that exists within Clan Childlaw away from management and operational work and dedicate it to work to #KeepThePromise. |
| Community Volunteers Enabling Youth Project (COVEY) | £50,000 | South Lanarkshire | To enable the organisation to free up capacity within the senior team and to bring in specific support to help with organisational development to embed the Promise plan. |
| Cyrenians | £50,000 | Edinburgh City | To support a new participation post to lead a programme of work that will help to create capacity for the organisation to hear and understand what young people need, and use that to shape future work they undertake. |
| Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust | £40,000 | Edinburgh City | To support the organisation to implement the next stage of their Promise plan, including training and upskilling staff to improve support for children and young people. |
| East Ayrshire Council | £50,000 | East Ayrshire | To employ an Implementation Lead service manager to build on the actions carried out to date and ensure that The Promise is fully implemented in East Ayrshire, and promoted across partners. |
| East Dunbartonshire Council | £50,000 | East Dunbartonshire | To employ an Implementation Officer and a Modern Apprentice support post to focus on implementing the organisation’s Promise plans and working with children and young people with care experience, and their families, in progressing change. |
| East Lothian Council | £50,000 | East Lothian | To recruit a Promise Implementation Officer to be a champion of The Promise and responsible for ensuring the principles and themes of The Promise are central to the redesign and change implementation process. |
| East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership | £50,000 | East Renfrewshire | To support the new post of Pathway Planning Development Coordinator, who will work alongside young people with care experience, families/carers, social workers, managers and key service providers to improve the quality of the pathway planning arrangements for transition into young adulthood. |
| Educating Through Care Scotland | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To review 15 Care and Learning Journeys, which follow young people from an early age to their current situation in order to analyse their experiences and those of their families. This information will contribute strategically to recommendations for transformative change within the care system nationally and locally/regionally. |
| Falkirk Children’s Commission | £50,000 | Falkirk | To recruit a Promise Co-ordinator who will enable the organisation to effect positive cultural change building on current work, supporting co-design and co-production of service provisions. |
| FCA Scotland | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support a senior staff member to implement The Promise plan, including participation of children and young people and challenging carers / staff / external partners with their views. |
| Foster Care Connect | £41,000 | Scotland-wide | To develop and improve support services for children, young people and families, including increasing participation opportunities for children and young people with care experience. |
| Fostering People Scotland | £30,000 | Aberdeen City | To employ a Keep the Promise Officer to critically evaluate and effect change in the structures, processes and practices of the agency. |
| Glenboig Development Trust | £35,000 | North Lanarkshire | To employ a Planning and Implementation Officer to lead the necessary sustainable change and continual improvement processes, embedding them in the organisation’s governance documents and strategic plan. |
| Harmeny Education Trust Limited | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To employ a Development Officer to support the creation of a new secondary curriculum, allowing young people with complex social, emotional and behavioural needs to continue at Harmeny up to the age of 18. |
| Home-Start UK | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To recruit development workers who will work locally and nationally to embed the principles of The Promise and family support through a programme of learning involving at least 15 local Home-Start organisations. |
| HUB for SUCCESS | £50,000 | Edinburgh City | To enable the establishment of a Strategic Lead Manager role for one year to push forward the development and consolidation of the HUB model which will transform support experience for care- experienced of all ages providing an accessible, seamless and easy to navigate pathway into further and higher education. |
| Includem | £50,000 | Glasgow City | To support a year-long Promise Participation Project with a view of participation proofing policies, guidelines, procedures and practices. This includes the recruitment and living-wage salary of a care-experienced person to undertake the role of Participation Officer. |
| Inspiring Scotland | £40,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the development of the Intandem mentoring programme, including the recruitment of a member of staff to bring valuable lived experience voice. |
| Inverclyde HSCP | £50,000 | Inverclyde | To support the recruitment of a Promise Lead, to work as part of a Promise Team which will have a key role in working across the Health & Social Care Partnership and ensuring meaningful engagement with children their family and carers. |
| JMT Fostering | £25,000 | Scotland-wide | To increase staff hours in order to embed the principles of The Promise, including listening to carers, young people and staff, developing training, creating an agenda for change and establishing a “Keeping the Promise” forum. |
| Kibble Education and Care Centre | £50,000 | Renfrewshire | To enable the organisation to further progress plans to #KeepThePromise. This will include the recruitment of Child and Youth Care Worker Promise Keeper(s) with lived care experience. |
| Moore House Group | £20,000 | Scotland-wide | To carry out research on the impact of the journey/whole experience of young people accessing Moore House Group. The findings will inform practice and influence policies. |
| Moray Council | £50,000 | Moray | To support a part time Project Officer and an Engagement Officer to work closely with staff, young people and families and to form the basis of a Promise Redesign Team. |
| North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership | £50,000 | North Ayrshire | To appoint a Promise Lead to take forward the development of the Promise, ensuring that strategy, communications, planning, collaboration and participation is taken forward in a consistent, planned, transparent, and targeted way to ensure synergy between all stakeholders. |
| North Lanarkshire Council | £50,000 | North Lanarkshire | To support the organisation to shift the culture, create and maintain change and ensure The Promise is implemented within North Lanarkshire. |
| Orkney Islands Council | £50,000 | Orkney Islands | To support the organisation to continue building on their participation and engagement work, and to develop and deliver a staff training plan including solution focussed practice and building loving and nurturing relationships. |
| ProjectChange | £30,000 | Edinburgh City | To cover the further development and rollout of the Voices toolkit, including the cost of staffing and resourcing. |
| Quarriers | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the role of an Implementation Manager who will be dedicated to undertaking a full and critical review of Services and delivery and how they support the recommendations within the Promise. |
| Renfrewshire Council | £50,000 | Renfrewshire | To support the new post of ‘Promise Ambassador’ who will support local partners to create capacity, adapt approaches and work towards cultural shifts and collaboration. |
| Resilience Learning Partnership | £50,000 | Clackmannanshire | To part fund the continuation of the VAWG manager and a part time assistant, to ensure implementation of adapted policy and that pertinent records are maintained. |
| Right There | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the organisation to achieve their aspirations of keeping care experienced people at the heart of their strategic review process, by covering the additional costs required to make this happen. |
| Rossie | £50,000 | Angus | To redeploy an operational manager to build capacity through a dedicated role within the organisation that would lead the change plan, monitor progress and implement developments across a multidisciplinary organisation. |
| Safe Families | £50,000 | Edinburgh City | To invest in the infrastructure changes needed to pilot a new Tayside Safe Families hub. |
| Scottish Adoption Association | £25,000 | Edinburgh City | To create a new staff role that will focus solely on implementing the organisation’s 6 Commitments for Change. |
| Scottish Attachment in Action | £15,000 | Scotland-wide | To create capacity to lead co-production and support the implementation of the Education Project findings which are most important to children, young people and their families. This will include recruitment of an Engagement and Participation Lead (care experienced). |
| Scottish Borders Council | £50,000 | Scottish Borders | To employ a full-time Promise Implementation Officer for one year which will enable the recommendations from the Promise and the Five Foundations to be progressed and implemented across the council and with partner agencies. |
| Scottish Mentoring Network | £30,000 | Scotland-wide | To map the current provision of mentoring to care experienced children and young people to identify gaps and develop partnerships to address them. |
| SIC | £50,000 | Shetland Islands | To employ a full time post to deliver service redesign and change within the organisation, specifically aligning policies and procedures, challenging current practice and engaging meaningfully with children, young people and their families. |
| South Ayrshire Council | £50,000 | South Ayrshire | To provide staff backfill costs in order to build capacity within the team which will focus on implementing and continuing to embed The Promise principles into policies, decision making processes and organisational culture. |
| St Margarets Children and Family Care Society | £50,000 | Glasgow City | To support capacity building costs for one year, including a new full time post to deliver the review of all services and reflect change in the strategy, policies and activities at St Margarets. |
| Staf | £50,000 | Glasgow City | To support the recruitment and organisational support of a Clinical Psychologist to review the organisation’s trauma-informed leadership and relationship -based model. |
| Stirling Council | £50,000 | Stirling | To support the recruitment of a dedicated Programme Manager to develop and drive forward the organisation’s plans for implementation of The Promise. |
| The Fostering Network in Scotland | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To support staffing costs, including the recruitment of a new worker, to implement change, challenge thinking where necessary, and ensure that children and young people are truly placed at the heart of the work. |
| The Good Shepherd Centre | £50,000 | Renfrewshire | To support the appointment of Family Support staff to increase family connections, staff to capacity build the existing staff model to increase support for young people in transition and a Participation and Inclusion officer to support Board re-design. |
| Volunteering Matters | £50,000 | Edinburgh City | To support the new role of a Participation Manager, a single point of contact to assess, evaluate, reflect & implement measures to ensure that the organisation will live the values of #KeepThe Promise. |
| West Dunbartonshire HSCP | £50,000 | West Dunbartonshire | To provide additional staff resource to support different departments to review their individual service delivery plans and redesign to become better aligned with The Promise. |
| Who Cares? Scotland | £50,000 | Scotland-wide | To undertake the first 3 stages of the Scottish Approach to Service Design Double Diamond Framework in the financial year 21/22 for core data needs, using a representative, organisation wide approach. |
| YMCA Edinburgh SCIO | £10,000 | Edinburgh City | To support the organisation to progress plans to #keepthepromise, including engaging external consultants to facilitate sessions to enable staff to explore their work through the lens of The Promise, and for the delivery any training needs that emerge as a result. |
| Young Scot | £16,000 | Scotland-wide | To support the organisation to engage directly with care experienced young people to review services, and to improve staff knowledge, understanding and capacity to develop this work. |
Promise Partnership Round One Diagnostic Route
Please find full list of awards below.
£915,000 was allocated to help drive forward big ideas that will #KeepThePromise and contribute to the Change Plan. This was an invite only application process – the process of identifying potential organisations for invitation took into account scalability, transferability, connectivity of ideas and having made a commitment to #KeepThePromise.
Organisation and grant amount:
| Aberlour Scotland-wide
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£175,000 |
| Dundee City Council | £200,000
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| Inverclyde HSCP | £200,000
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| Fife Council | £ 200,000
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| Shetland Islands Council | £140,000
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Get in touch
If you’d like any further information or have any questions, please get in touch with us at promisepartnership@corra.scot.
Project management and governance
Corra has been contracted by the Scottish Government to deliver the Promise Partnership until March 2022. Responsibility and accountability rests with Corra’s Acting CEO, with additional support and oversight provided by Corra’s Head of Learning and Development. An Advisory Group provides guidance and challenge to the parameters and criteria of the Promise Partnership. Funding decisions are made by the decision makers panel that brings together a range of professional skills and expertise as well as lived experience of Scotland’s ‘care system’.
No staff of The Promise Scotland or member of the Oversight Board will be appointed to the Advisory Group and/or decision makers panel.
Corra’s CEO’s involvement and role (Chair) in The Promise Scotland is recorded through Corra’s Conflict of Interest procedures. The CEO is recused from any involvement with the Promise Partnership. Corra’s CEO has been on secondment to The Promise since April 2021 and during that time has not been involved in any of Corra’s grant making or governance.
