SCRA Annual Report 2025/2026
About Our Report
This report covers the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
It summarises SCRA’s achievements and performance during that period and includes an update on progress against our Business Plan 2025/26.
You can also view this report’s supporting information online, including the full set of our annual audited accounts and performance report, plus our Official Statistics and interactive statistical dashboard at www.scra.gov.uk.
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 Us section of our website.
Contents
- Our statistics: Some of our key statistics in 2025/26
- Foreword: A welcome message from our Board Chair Cathie Cowan
- Our year at a glance: Some of our highlights from 2025/26
- Reporting on our Business Plan 2025/26
- Our Stories: Aim 1 – Care
- Spotlight on Communi-crate
- Our Stories: Aim 2 – Connect
- Spotlight on Learning Leads and The Learning Hub
- Our Stories: Aim 3 – Protect
- Spotlight on Trauma-Informed Practice
- Our Board: Information about our Board and members
- Looking ahead: Principal Reporter/Chief Executive Neil Hunter reflects on the first six months of 2026/2027
Our Commitments 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.
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