Significant updates made to all route maps
19/12/2025
Significant updates have been made to the Plan 24-30 route maps, to help everyone working to keep the promise with clear outcomes and routes to 2030.
We have worked alongside organisations to make updates across the route maps. This includes capturing the work already underway and future commitments. These will continue to evolve and iterate as progress is made towards 2030.
What are the route maps?
The route maps are national level plans, which build on the progress and positive changes already made. Taken together, the 25 make up Scotland’s shared planning framework to keep the promise. They cover all the conclusions of the Independent Care Review, staying true to what children, young people and care experienced adults said must happen.
Each route map outlines the timebound route Scotland must take to make the change required, including:
- what must be delivered for the promise to be kept,
- who is responsible for doing it,
- when it must be done, and
- how route maps depend on each other for progress.
Clear outcomes
In updating the route maps, work has been undertaken to make delivery clearer. The route maps aim to strengthen transparency and accountability across all areas of work, so the remaining distance to travel is visible and the barriers in the way can be identified and addressed.
While Scotland now has a route, the route maps will not be static plans from here, and will continuously be developed, adapt and be added to as Scotland progresses in its journey to keeping the promise.
Reviewing
Everyone working to keep the promise should spend the next month to use the website and review the updated route maps.
The more everyone working to keep the promise engages with the route maps, by adding updating content, the better they will become.
After the initial feedback period, The Promise Scotland will be setting out more detail on how it will support organisations to take these route maps, and translate them into their own plans to keep the promise by 2030.