This Strategic Plan is an interim document until the full Strategic Plan can be laid before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.
The Strategic Plan covers the four year period starting with the year following the coming into force of the Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010. The strategic plan provisions of this Act came into force on 1st April 2011 and therefore under schedule 5 paragraph 4(10) the plan must cover the period 2012 - 2016.
I am immensely grateful to comments from organisations on my draft Strategic Plan published in December 2010.
A total of 34 responses were received and these are available on the website. The very many constructive comments have made a significant contribution to the plan as have the results of a RIGHT blether, which generated 74,059 responses from children and young people. I am confident that the final Strategic Plan will be an improved and more robust document as a result of the consultations.
I intend to lay the final Strategic Plan in early 2012 before the Scottish Parliament, and I expect it to be in a position for wider distribution after April 2012.
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the Strategic Plan and for your patience as the process progresses.
Tam Baillie, Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People