Children in Scotland are delighted to share with you their new report, “Supporting The Third Sector Project Survey (2024): Exploring the Role of the Third Sector in Children’s Services Planning”. This report presents the findings from the 2024 Supporting the Third Sector (STTS) Project survey, which was designed to understand the extent of third sector involvement in Children’s Services Planning (CSP) arrangements in Children’s Services Planning Partnerships (CSPPs) across Scotland.
The findings in this report display important reflections and provide recommendations from the children’s sector around the third sector involvement in children’s services planning and delivery in 2024. The key points included:
- The importance of a strong well-funded TSI, with dedicated role for children’s services, in the quality and scope of the work that can be achieved.
- Building and maintaining relationships across the children’s sector including between TSIs, the wider third sector and statutory partners is essential to positive and meaningful collaborative working.
- Local commissioning arrangements continue to present barriers to local collaboration between partners in CSP and delivery, with complex processes, respondents concerns about exclusion of third sector partners in discussions and mistrust between the third sector and statutory partners as key issues.
- Data collection and sharing continues to be a challenge across localities resulting in valuable evidence and experience from the third sector not being recorded and included in strategic decisions.
For further information, please read the report in full, Supporting The Third Sector Project Survey (2024): Exploring the Role of the Third Sector in Children’s Services Planning (linked for your convenience).
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