Adoption UK (in Scotland) Adoption UK is an independent voluntary organisation that offers information and support services for adoptive families and anyone caring for children who can’t live with their birth parents.
Circle: supporting families in Scotland Support for children at risk of school exclusion, neglect and abuse; support for families.
Contact: for families with disabled children Information, advice and support to families of children with any special need or disability. They have a telephone helpline, and their website has a fantastic amount of useful advice.
Families Anonymous: families of drug users Families Anonymous is a self-help support network for families and friends of people with a current, suspected or former drug problem. They have groups in Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. They have regular online meetings too.
Families Outside Support and help with the emotional and practical difficulties imprisonment brings to a family. Has a telephone helpline.
Fife Gingerbread Supports anyone who is bringing up children on their own in Fife. Services include home visits, single parent support groups, support for students, family activities.
Fostering Network in Scotland Provides learning and development opportunities for foster carers and fostering services, as well as information and advice.
Kinship Offers a range of support, including a helpline, welfare benefits advice and information for the grandparents and siblings, the aunts, uncles, and family friends who step up to raise children when their parents aren’t able to.
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.
MATCH (Mothers Apart From Their Children) Aims to protect the good mental health of mothers living apart from their children for whatever reason. Offers non-judgemental emotional support, information and advice.
Mumsnet: by parents for parents Offers advice and information for parents and families - anything from pregnancy to starting school to troubled teens. The website has parents' chatrooms.
Netmums Family of local websites covering the UK. Each site offers information on everything from where to find playgroups and how to eat healthily to where to meet other mothers, and has a range of parenting advice from pregnancy to teens.
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.
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health service directory This directory lists organisations across Scotland who currently offer perinatal and infant mental health support.
Rainbow Families Project Rainbow Families is for anyone looking to meet other LGBTQI parents, share experiences and socialise in a family setting. A friendly and relaxed group with a really diverse mix of coupled and single LGBTQI parents and their children taking part.
Scottish Adoption Recruits adoptive families, and provides information, counselling and support to adoptive parents, birth parents and relatives, adopted children and adults.
Shared Parenting Scotland Supports separating and divorced parents to share parenting amicably for the benefit of their children.
