Corporate Parenting

We are committed to Keeping The Promise to children, young people and families in South Lanarkshire. The Promise is Scotland’s commitment that every child will grow up loved, safe and respected. Our role is to make this real by changing how we support families, how we listen, and how we care for children who cannot live at home.

What The Promise means

The Promise sets out five foundations we work to every day:
voice, family, care, people and support.
This means we:

• listen to children and young people
• help families stay together when it is safe
• value relationships above everything else
• make sure staff and volunteers have the support they need
• build services that work for real lives

How we are delivering change locally

In South Lanarkshire, we are shaping local practice with families, carers, staff, volunteers and partner organisations. Everyone involved in the lives of children and young people has a part to play in keeping this promise.

Our Promise Board (formerly the Corporate Parenting Board) meets regularly to lead this work. Our Champions Board also plays a key role in sharing the voices and experiences of young people, helping us shape services through The Promise Plan 21–24.

To drive change, we have three multi‑agency groups focusing on:

• redesigning services for care experienced children
• throughcare, aftercare and continuing care in the community
• engagement and participation of care experienced children and young people

Supporting families and young people

Our Corporate Parenting Strategy focuses on helping children stay within their families where it is safe. We are improving support for kinship carers and developing more coordinated family support. We are also designing new models of continued support for care experienced young people after age 16.

Relationships sit at the heart of all our work—between children, young people, families and the people who support them.

Stay connected and find out more

Follow the South Lanarkshire Champions Board on  on Facebook or X.
You can also find more information on our Children and Families webpages including care experienced young people, Kinship Care and Continuing Care and Aftercare.