The Promise
Our progress
As we progress with our work to Keep The Promise in Midlothian, we will update this page so you know what is happening across the partnership.
Keeping the Promise in Midlothian is governed by The Midlothian Community Planning Partnership.
2025 progress update
My name is Claire, and I am the Promise and Corporate Parenting lead in Midlothian. It is my absolute pleasure to share a progress update with you all:
- The beginning of the year saw us launch our work with Who Cares? Scotland.
- We celebrated Care Day on 21 February.
- On 17 March we celebrated Kinship Care Week. Everyone enjoyed pizza and fun activities. Kinship Carers groups invited us for coffee and catch ups.
- Our Foundation Apprentice – Mia Brown, shared her work on Keeping Children's Rights
- We delivered a presentation to the Promise Learning Collaborative
- We will be relaunching our Corporate Parenting Commitment and Midlothian Champion Board.
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Supporting employees with the Keeping The Promise Award (Education Scotland)
So far 60 Midlothian employees have completed the “I Promise Award’ demonstrating their commitment to upholding the Promise to young people in their settings.
The ‘We Promise Award’ is achieved where a whole team have completed the award - well done to Pathways to Success and the Family Wellbeing Service for being the first in Midlothian to achieve this.
We are listening
Ongoing participation and engagement with children, families and professionals is a significant foundation of our work to keep the promise in Midlothian. Participation with care experienced children and young people is currently done with our established Champs Group. But we want to widen the ways we listen to our CECYP.
For example, we recently sent an animated invite asking young people from Beeslack High school to help create a child friendly promise animation.
You can watch the animation below. We are proud of the young people who were brave enough to share their stories and contribute to what their understanding of the Promise is and what it means to them.
The dragon in the clip is representative of ‘not judging a book by its cover’, the young person who created it wanted it to be known that care-experienced children and young people don’t need a label and shouldn’t be judged because of their care experience.
The song was also sung by two young people who attended the animation group.
With thanks to the young people from Beeslack High School who created this.
