Last updated: 30 May 2026
City of Edinburgh Council's children's residential services operate within Scotland's distinctive statutory and regulatory context. The city has been an active early implementer of The Promise, with a strong focus on relationship-based practice, sibling-placement preservation and continuing-care transitions. Residential roles in Edinburgh combine the Scottish policy reform agenda with the practical realities of commissioning across a mixed urban and affluent coastal and suburban catchment.
Edinburgh employers prize practitioners working confidently within The Promise framework, experienced in continuing-care transitions and aligned to SSSC registration requirements.
Ofsted-registered children's homes: around 240 Care Inspectorate-registered residential childcare services
Sector vacancy rate: 20%
Continuing Care obligations under the 2014 Act and The Promise programme are reshaping demand toward longer-term, relationship-based residential provision
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