Pupil Support Staff Learning Programme

Between March 2023 and June 2025, funding from The Promise Partnership’s Keep The Promise Fund provided us with the opportunity to deliver an exciting project.

We developed and delivered a support and learning programme for pupil support staff using a co-production model. The project built on the experience, expertise and passion of Children in Scotland and Enquire staff, children and young people with lived experience, and pupil support staff across the country.

It brought together several strands of work we’ve been involved in over recent years – meaningful participation, engagement and co-production, our contribution to the Independent Care Review, and providing pupil support staff with learning and development opportunities.

The programme was created using a truly collaborative and co-design approach with Children in Scotland staff and two working groups, that remained involved throughout the project. One group included children and young people with care experience and the other will include pupil support staff. The groups worked separately and together designing the programme, delivering and updating it in line with feedback.