Timeline
Project timeline
Follow the planned phases, milestones and outputs for the project.
Project period and current position
The project began on 1 Dec 2025 and is planned to finish on 1 Jun 2028. The progress figures show where the project sits within the full 30-month period.
Overall programme time elapsed
This overview shows the main project phases across the full programme. The detailed board below separates phase bars from milestone rows so you can see where the milestones for each phase sit across the same project period.
Detailed timeline board
Phase 1 · Survey
Online questionnaire design, recruitment, administration and analysis.
Milestones
What this phase covers
- Designing a survey with the workforce so it is meaningful, practical and easy to complete.
- Work with other organisations to make use of relevant available data on the use of physical restraint.
- Promoting participation across Scotland to build a wide picture of current practice and experience.
- Using the findings to identify patterns, strengths and areas for deeper exploration in later phases.
Milestones
Phase 2 · Appreciative Inquiry
During this phase, we will work closely with five residential child care providers to understand what happens when restraint is successfully avoided. The work will consists of desiging interview questions and focus groups, carry out the interviews and analyse the transrcipts, all the while ensuring the process is ethical.
Milestones
What this phase covers
- Exploring what helps workers successfully avoid physical restraint and what conditions support good practice, involving both staff and children and young people.
- Gathering detailed insight from services making progress towards restraint reduction.
- Producing early learning that feeds directly into practical resources and wider dissemination.
Milestones
Phase 3 · Resource creation & knowledge dissemination
Knowledge production, sense-making and development of resources, reports and wider dissemination activity.
Milestones
What this phase covers
- Turning the learning from the project into practical resources, reports and sector-facing outputs.
- Supporting sense-making and knowledge sharing so people can follow what has been learned and what is next.
- Making the final outputs easier to use in day-to-day practice and wider sector development.