SCRA’s vision is that children and young people will be listened to, protected and supported to have a positive future where they are safe, valued and respected.

We are committed to Keeping The Promise. In order for us to demonstrate our commitment, plan our journey and show our activity to get there, SCRA has developed our Keeping the Promise Route Plan. The Route Plan contains the high level activity planned for 2021-2024 to take us towards Keeping The Promise through two interlinked strands of work – Improvement and Reform. Our Route Plan focuses mainly on improvement. We have recently closed the Route Plan and a closure report that describes the progress made is available here. The improvement work is now part of a new integrated programmes approach. This aims to ensure that the enablers of digital development and efficient processes deliver capacity to be directed at improvement so that we can take on challenges, remove and reduce barriers and move forward towards keeping the promise.

SCRA is also actively involved in reform through our work with partners in key organisations and with children and families to redesign the structures, processes and legislation of the Children’s Hearings System. SCRA was a member of the Hearings System Working Group and the collaborative redesign project and continues the work towards redesign in partnership as a member of the Children’s Hearings Redesign Board and Planning Group.