Parents/carers
Supporting parents/carers of children and young people in care
Stirling Council offers a range of parenting and family support to families to help them when they need it. You can access specific support from the Parenting and Family Support Team by someone you work with, like your health visitor, doctor of another professional, making a referral on your behalf.
You'll meet with a member of the team to talk about what you would like to work on together and make a plan towards positive change for you and your family. The team can offer group support, individual support, advice and parenting programmes.
To find out more click here or phone 01786 404040
Want to be a better mum, dad, grandparent or carer?
In our place is a range of online courses, free to Scottish residents, to help us to understand and parent our children better.
Using the Solihull Appoach, you can work through short online course(s) relevant to you and your family.
Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby
Understanding your baby
Understanding your child (0-19ys)
Understanding you child with additional support needs
Understanding your teenagers brain
Enter your FREE access code is 'TARTAN'
Click here to find out more
Adoption UK in Scotland provide support to adoptive parents through their helpline, online support systems, training workshops and support groups.
Adoption UK in Scotland work closely with local authority, voluntary adoption agencies across Scotland.
Click here to find out more.
Here is their useful factsheet about the adoption process in Scotland
There are many reasons why children and young people across Scotland are unable to live with their natural (birth) parents.
Stirling Council offer a range of support to children, young people & families regarding fostering, adoption & kinship care arrangements.
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Find all the information you need about Adoption in Scotland, whether you are starting out on the journey of adoption, are an adoptive family or a professional working in adoption.
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Scotland’s Kinship Care Advice Service (KCASS) is funded by the Scottish Government with the purpose of delivering the best possible support to kinship carers who play such a critical role in providing secure, stable and nurturing homes for children who cannot be cared for by their birth parents.
Click here to find out more
The Adoption Journey is a resource written for adopters by adopters with information pertaining to adopting in Scotland.
Click here to find to download
One Parent Families
Changing lives, challenging poverty
One Parent Families Scotland aims to enable single parent families to achieve their potential, to reach a decent standard of living and contribute to Scottish society.
To find out more, click on the website below: