The organisation overseeing the Scottish Government’s flagship children’s care system reform – The Promise – has spent almost a third of its budget on external costs, which include high profile PR firms, consultants and plush central Edinburgh offices, the Ferret has revealed.
The Independent Care Review, known as the Promise, spearheaded by then first minister Nicola Sturgeon and delivered in February 2020, aimed to revolutionise the care system.
A year later Scottish ministers set up The Promise Scotland and the Promise Oversight Board, non-statutory
organisations, or quangos, charged with overseeing the implementation of the review and supporting organisations working in the care sector to make the changes required.
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