SCRA Annual Report 2024/2025

About Our Report

This report covers the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

It summarises SCRA’s achievements and performance during that period and includes an update on progress against our Business Plan 2024/25.

You can also view this report’s supporting information, including the full set of our annual audited accounts and performance report, plus our Official Statistics and interactive statistical dashboard. You might also find our Annual Report glossary helpful

If you want to find out more about our role and our work, please visit the About SCRA section of our website.

Contents

• Our Progress: A summary of progress against our Business Plan 2024/2025
• Forward by Board Chair, Cathie Cowan
• Our year at a glance: Some of our highlights from 2024/2025
• Our Stories: Programme 1 – Care
• Spotlight on … Keeping The Promise
• Our Stories: Programme 2 – Connect
• Spotlight on … Looking Ahead – Preparing for Change in SCRA
• Our Stories: Programme 3 – Protect
• Spotlight on … Hearing Centre Design Standards
• Our Statistics in 2024/2025
• Our Board in 2024/2025
• Looking Ahead by Principal Reporter/ Chief Executive, Neil Hunter

Our Commitment To You …

Our Vision

Children and young people in Scotland will be cared for, included, respected and safe, with opportunities for a positive future.

Our Mission

Together, we protect and uphold the rights of Scotland’s children and young people, making decisions in a compassionate, inclusive and trauma informed way.

Our Values

Our values are the shared motivations, beliefs and behaviours that underpin all that we do:

Supportive: We work with kindness to support children, young people and families, our partners and each other.

Child Centred: The rights and voice of children and young people are at the heart of everything we do.

Respectful: Everyone is respected and treated fairly, inclusively and lawfully.

Accountable: We are responsible for our decisions, our ethics and our learning.