We commit to understanding digital exclusion and how it impacts the people we work with.
Our staff, the children, young people and families we work with, our members and our partnerships across the children's sector provide us with an insight and understanding of digital exclusion and its potential impacts. We use this to inform our planning and delivery and, using a continuous improvement model, we strive to develop more effective services and activities.
We commit to delivering on digital inclusion across our organisation, based on our understanding of need.
We work collaboratively across the organisation which includes our staff, children and young people who are involved in our participatory groups and our Directors. We strive to embed digital inclusion at all levels of activity and regularly gather opinions from our people and, where appropriate, act on them.
We commit to identifying and utilising appropriate resources for digital inclusion.
Our planning processes allow us to ringfence resource and prioritise activities or developments where possible, with digital accessibility and inclusion being one area. For example, the launch of the new Children in Scotland website in November 2025 provided a much more accessible and inclusive resource for users to access than the previous website.
We commit to working in genuine partnership where we can, to promote and advance digital inclusion.
Collaboration is one of our values and we work in partnership at every opportunity. Digital inclusion and accessibility is an area where we have been discussing at both strategic and delivery levels recently with the potential for projects in Scotland and UK-wide (funding dependant) across 2026 and beyond.
We commit to contributing towards a wider conversation, developing a sense of community and being part of something bigger - because digital inclusion is everyone's responsibility.
We use our platform to amplify the views and voices of children, young people, families and the children's workforce in Scotland. Our plans for 2026 and beyond include a strand on 'digital' across a wide range of areas, and will allow us to also focus on digital inclusion / exclusion, what this means to different people and what possible solutions are.
