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Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund

Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund, awards cash grants to assist children and young people (aged 16 and under) across Scotland, and their families, who are suffering extreme hardship.

Benefits (gov.uk)

Benefits information from the government, including benefits for families, child benefit and housing benefits.

Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

Website explaining how to apply for the School Age Payment, Early Learning Payment, Pregnancy and Baby Payment and a prepaid card to buy healthy food.

Cheaper broardband deals for low-income households (Broadband Genie)

Guide to broadband suppliers who are offering cheaper packages for people in receipt of certain benefits.

Child Maintenance Options

Impartial information for both parents about child maintenance after divorce and separation. Telephone helpline service is provided.

Citizens Advice Scotland

Network of centres (CABs) all over the country, giving advice on money and rights, including consumer rights, discrimination and employment rights.

Cooking on a budget (Netmums)

Low cost healthy recipes for kids from Netmums members.

Dad.info

Parenting and lifestyle website for dads. Includes a community forum, advice and blogs.

Divorce and separation (Money Advice Service)

Website giving impartial information on your finances if you are going through divorce or separation.

Education Maintenance Allowance (Scottish Government)

Find out how to apply for or renew an EMA award

Energy and Money Advice (Energy Action Scotland)

Helplines and information to help you save money on your bills, find grants for getting energy efficiency work done, get the benefits you're entitled to, and deal with debt.

Energy and money saving tips (One Parent Families Scotland)

Some tips and suggestions for ways to save energy and money.

Family Fund: helping disabled children

Provides grants to low income families with severely disabled or seriously ill children, aged 17 years and under.

Financial help in the early years (Child Poverty Action Group Scotland)

This leaflet outlines what financial help may be available from pregnancy to school age. It includes how universal credit (UC) can help you qualify for certain types of help, and other assistance that is available as well as universal credit.

Healthy Start

Free food vouchers for low income families with children under 4 and pregnant women - exchanged for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk.

How to access benefits and grants (Turn2us)

Turn2us helps people low income families to access welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help online, by phone and face to face.

Kinship Care: advice service for Scotland

National service providing information, advice and support for grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings or friend who are raising a child who can no longer live with their parents.

Local early learning and childcare options

The Scottish Government funds 1140 hours a year free early learning and childcare during school term times for: all families of 3-4 year-olds families of 2 year olds who claim certain benefits.

Maternity Action

Information about employment rights, welfare benefit rights and health care rights for parents. They have a helpline.

Maternity and paternity leave (Which?)

Find out about your eligibility and pay for statutory maternity and paternity leave, maternity allowance and shared parental leave.

Money Talk Team (Citizens Advice Scotland)

Citizens Advice network in Scotland are offering families the opportunity to get a little help from the Money Talk Team.

MoneyHelper

Free, impartial financial advice and information available online, over the phone or face to face. Includes benefits for families, separation and divorce, maternity and paternity rights, paying for childcare, saving money and working families.

One Parent Families Scotland

Provides support and advice to single parents, and helps develop parents' confidence and employability. Has a telephone helpline and chat service.

Parents under 16 (Citizens Advice Scotland)

Information for parents in Scotland who are aged under 16 on issues such as benefits, tax credits and maintenance.

Relationship problems (Citizens Advice Scotland)

What you need to do if your relationship has broken down and you are splitting up, whether you are living together, married or in a civil partnership.

Scottish Child Payment

Scottish Child Payment is a payment to families to help them meet the costs of supporting their children.

Scottish Power Hardship Fund

Grant fund to help ScottishPower customers who are struggling to pay their ScottishPower debt due to low household income.

Scottish Welfare Fund (Scottish Government)

The Scottish Welfare Fund helps families and people in Scotland who are on low incomes through Crisis Grants and Community Care Grants.

Time off work for parents (Acas)

Information explaining your rights to maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay.

Universal Credit (Contact)

Helpful explanation about how claiming Universal Credit may affect your families income.

Universal Credit (Scottish choices)

Providing greater choice and flexibility of payments in Scotland.

Working Families

Information service for working mothers, fathers and carers on employment rights, tax credits and in-work benefits, maternity and paternity rights, and flexible working options.