What is Plan 24-30?

Plan 24-30 is hosted on a website, designed to capture the actions of those responsible for leading and implementing change, to track the progress in real time, and to ensure the many paths towards 2030 are aligned and reinforcing one other.  

The Plan 24-30 route maps are the way Plan 24-30 gets Scotland to the end of it's journey. They will build on existing work and progress and will be developed in collaboration with those responsible for leading and implementing change. The route maps have been designed to enable organisations and leaders to work together on complex issues and build shared plans that respond to the evolving needs of children and families.  

The route maps will:  

How will the Plan 24-30 route maps support Scotland to keep the promise?  

• Alignment: Route maps will support alignment across multiple plans, priorities and policies. Ensuring that the different plans to support families and to keep the promise are reinforcing rather than working against each other. 

• Transparency: Enable greater transparency on the broad range of work to keep the promise, including who is leading and what the steps towards 2030 look like. 

• Bridge the national and the local: Clear national direction creates the conditions for stronger local delivery. By outlining key national actions, the route maps remove uncertainty and help local authorities and organisations align, adapt, and accelerate their own efforts to keep the Promise. 

• Enable co-design and collaboration: Provide a tool to co-design plans, surface solutions and collaborate to deliver the change.  

• Fixed destination, dynamic planning and delivery: The destination is fixed, the promise must be kept by 2030. The route there must be flexible, as Scotland responds to the changing landscape and needs of children and families. The route maps will evolve as understanding deepens guided by what is working and the challenges to overcome. 

• Keeping the promise by and beyond 2030: The route maps are the tool to support collaborative planning, but it will be the sustained bold leadership across Scotland that will ensure the promise is kept in full, and that the conditions for change are sustained beyond 2030. 

Principles of the Plan 24-30 route maps 

While approaches to keep the promise may vary across systems and sectors, the path to 2030 must be guided by these core principles:  

Keeping the Promise means redesigning systems to prioritise what children and families value over what the system values.  

Taking an intersectional approach means building systems and services that are inclusive and acknowledge overlapping factors such as race, gender, socioeconomic status and disability.  

The route maps must align with the incorporation of the UNCRC and drive progress to ensure the rights of all children, families and care experienced adults are upheld.  

Planning: Both the process of route map development and the content that comes from that must drive greater collaboration. Developing the route maps will serve as a tool to support cross-sector and system-wide planning.  

Transparency on progress: The Plan 24-30 route maps will surface solutions, engender new ways of working and chart the steps towards 2030, making it clearer how the promise will be kept across different systems, services and within communities. 

The path to 2030 will be not linear; obstacles and challenges will arise that must be addressed, whilst also ensuring that the pace and scale of change increases. Surfacing these bridges and barriers is crucial to understand where change must be accelerated to ensure the promise is kept.   

The meeting in the middle is a theory of change for Plan 24-30, it illustrates the connections between the five areas repeatedly identified as the major barriers and bridges to the promise being kept: data, scrutiny, risk, money, and policy. 

Find out more about meeting in the middle.