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Policy & research

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What we're working on

Our current policy priorities are: children's rights, family support, poverty, leisure and play and parenting with adults. Find out what we're doing in these areas.

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Parenting evidence review

This project is reviewing evidence published in Scotland in 2023 that focuses on the lived experience and needs of parents and those in a parenting role.

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Facts about families

Summary of family context and characteristics in Scotland, including care-experienced, child poverty, disability, refugee/asylum-seeking, prison, and alcohol/drugs.

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Research hub

Includes our research and evidence library, key research organisations, and an archive or our own research.

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Policy overviews

Updates of what's happening in parenting and family policy in Scotland.

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Consultations and briefings

We work closely with government to make sure that they fully consider what parents and families need and want.

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Parenting across Scotland is a registered Scottish charity: SC047892. We acknowledge support from the Scottish Government (CYPFEIF and ALEC Fund Grant) and the Corra Foundation.

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Our members

  • Aberlour - Scotland's children's charity
  • Children in Scotland
  • Contact: For families with disabled children
  • Families Outside - supporting families affected by imprisonment
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  • One Parent Families Scotland - changing lives, challenging poverty
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