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When providing joined-up support to children and families in Scotland, data too often acts as a barrier. For the promise to be kept, this needs to change.
Scotland needs data that allows us to see the whole child, and their family, within context.
It needs a culture that proactively listens to and seeks out information about the experiences of:
And it needs to treat that information as what matters most, rather than as secondary to the type of information that is useful to ‘the care system’.
It needs joined-up data, that allows people and organisations to see entire journeys and changes over time.
By The Promise ScotlandWhen providing joined-up support to children and families in Scotland, data too often acts as a barrier. For the promise to be kept, this needs to change.
Scotland needs data that allows us to see the whole child, and their family, within context.
It needs a culture that proactively listens to and seeks out information about the experiences of:
And it needs to treat that information as what matters most, rather than as secondary to the type of information that is useful to ‘the care system’.
It needs joined-up data, that allows people and organisations to see entire journeys and changes over time.