We are pleased to present the latest Compass National Data Report with data from 897 young people with additional support needs, parents and carers, and professionals in Scotland who used the Compass transitions tool between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025.
The report’s key findings provide important baseline data as Scotland starts to implement the National Transitions Strategy for Young Disabled People, published by the Scottish Government in June. The findings are grouped according to priorities from the Strategy to help all partners – Scottish Government, local authorities, health boards and service providers – understand where best to focus efforts and resources to improve support for young disabled people and their families.
Please continue to support the expansion of Compass across Scotland by encouraging people to use it. All three versions can be accessed here: https://compasslaunch.scot/
We would also like to invite your directors to our upcoming conference. ARC Scotland is hosting a major conference in Edinburgh on 11 December to consider implementation plans for the Strategy, along with the report’s findings and their implications. Keynote speakers at Transitions in Action: Strategy into Practice include Natalie Don-Innes, the Minister for Children, Young People and the Promise, with strategic heads and leading figures from education, social work and health and ARC Scotland’s young leaders’ group the DIVErgent INfluencers.
You can register for the conference here.
With many thanks,
Lauren Eliott Lockhart (she/her) (hear my name)