Reflections on Keeping the Promise, by Lorraine Moore
Themes – care experience, the care systems in our communities, Keeping the Promise and the transformative power of education.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts and by working collaboratively both within and across further and higher education bodies we can achieve change. This concept is not new to our further and higher education bodies, and they have achieved much through the corporate parenting duties as is laid out in the 2014 Children and Young People (Scotland) Act and this has prepared the ground well for the Promise Scotland to land. Support for care experienced learners requires collective action and that is what the Promise encourages us to do.
We know that our places of learning work when they work for everyone. We also know that the policy, practice, and culture change created and driven by the voice of the care experienced leaners doesn’t only affect them, it also benefits the wider student group.
