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Aberdeen Children's Services Network
The Aberdeen Children's Services Network shares knowledge, work experiences and issues relevant to working with children and improving services.
Client Group: Children,Discussion forums, Health and social care professionals, Social issues, Social policy
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Aberdeen Forward - Grampian Real Nappy Project
The Grampian Real Nappy Project is an initiative cordinated by environmental charity Aberdeen Forward. The project aims to promote the use of real nappies as an easy and affordable alternative to disposables.
Client Group: Family support,Waste management
Organisation Type: Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen Foyer
Aberdeen Foyer works to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment. The Foyer provides services and facilities for young people aged 16 to 25 years to support them in their transition from dependency to independence, by linking supported accommodation, access to education and training, advice on health plus opportunities for personal and social development.
Client Group: Supported housing,Young people,Housing advice services, Homelessness,Advice agencies, Young people
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen Play Forum
Aberdeen Play Forum held its first meeting in 1999, following a Play Talk Conference at Aberdeen Lads Club. A group staff, working with and for children and young people, wanted to ensure that following the Aberdeen City Council's adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, Article 31 was implemented.
Client Group: Children,Discussion forums, Health and social care professionals, Social issues, Social policy
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire Childcare Information Service
Aberdeenshire Childcare Information Service provides free information on all childcare provision and pre-school education, and guidance on choosing appropriate childcare for children.
Client Group: Child care
Organisation Type: Local Authority
Answerphone outwith office hours
Area Covered: Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire Childcare Partnership
Aberdeenshire Childcare Partnership was formed to support and develop childcare for children from birth to 14 years old which is affordable, accessible and of good quality.
Client Group: Child care
Organisation Type: Local Authority
Area Covered: Aberdeenshire
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Adapt
Aberlour Child Care Trust, Adapt undertakes assessments and coordinates support to children and young people with a learning disability and associated complex needs. The service also provides direct support to families.
Client Group: Children,Learning disabilities
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity, Partnership
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Alba Place
Alba Place supports children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years who live in Moray and have a moderate to severe learning disability and/or autism
Moray Options provides a range of flexible, family centred support including family based short breaks, playschemes and support for young people with disability to participate in mainstream activities.
Client Group: Children,Respite care, Children, Young people
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Moray
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Introduction to Services in the North East of Scotland
The Aberlour Child Care Trust provides care, help and support for children's development in the early years, children and young people with learning disabilities, children affected by drug or alcohol dependency, young people in difficulties and families in Scotland whose development or well being is threatened by disadvantage or deprivation. Parenting is a developing area of work.
Client Group: Children,Respite care, Children, Young people
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Scotland
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Moray Options
Moray Options provides a range of community based support for children with learning disabilities and their families throughout Moray.
Client Group: Family support,Learning disabilities,Respite care, Disability ,Respite care, Children, Young people,After school care,Special educational needs and additional support, Schools,Activities for disabled people,Young people's activities, Young people's organisations
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Moray
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Moray Youth Action
Moray Youth Action provides a needs-led, person-centred service for vulnerable and challenging children and young people in Moray.
Client Group: Young people
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Moray
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Options Aberdeenshire
Options Aberdeenshire provides assessment, support planning and direct practical support for children and young people with a disability and associated complex needs.
Client Group: Children,Young people,Learning disabilities
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity, Partnership
Area Covered: Aberdeenshire
Aberlour Child Care Trust - Primrosehill Family Centre
The Primrosehill Family Centre is for families within Aberdeen city.
Client Group: Children,Family centres,Family support,Addiction, Family support
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Adoption - Aberdeenshire Council
Adoption is a process which allows someone other than the child's birth father and mother to become their parents. Aberdeenshire Council is registered with the Care Commission as an adoption agency.
Client Group: Adoption, Fostering
Organisation Type: Local Authority
Adoption and Fostering Service - Aberdeen City Council
The Adoption and Fostering Service of Aberdeen City Council is provided by three teams - the Fostering Team and the Adoption and Permanence Team. Each of the teams has a distinctive remit but there is also a clear need for a collaborative approach across the teams to provide for and meet the needs of children, young people and adults who use the service.
Client Group: Adoption, Fostering
Organisation Type: Local Authority
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Alcohol Support Ltd - Child and Family Services
Alcohol Support Ltd (formerly known as Alcohol Advisory and Counselling Service and Albyn House Association Ltd) is a specialist charity working to provide choice and a range of support services for people in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire with an alcohol problem, or affected by someone else's alcohol problem.
Specialist caseworkers support partners and children of problem drinkers, the drinking parent, as well as children and teenagers who experience problems though their own use of alcohol.
Client Group: Family support,Counselling,Addiction, Family support ,Addiction, Drug and alcohol action teams
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity, Company Limited by Guarantee
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Banff Family Centre - Social Work - Aberdeenshire Council
Banff Family Centre provides support and assistance to families in need and also organises groups for children aged 2 to 9 years old.
Client Group: Family centres
Organisation Type: Local Authority
Area Covered: Aberdeenshire
Barnardo's - 4 Change - Family Support
Supports young people aged 7-14 and their families through times of crisis, particularly within relationships, communications and behaviours that could lead to a young person being accommodated.
Client Group: Children,Family support,Young people
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Barnardo's - 4 Change - Young Runaways Service
Barnardo's, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council and Grampian Police aims to reduce the number of young people going missing from home or from 'looked after' accommodation.
Client Group: Children in care
Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Voluntary
Barnardo's - Linksfield Service - Aberdeen
Barnardo's Linksfield project was set up to work with children and young people in Aberdeen aged 9 to 14 years, who are experiencing difficulties at home, at school and / or in the community.
Client Group: Children
Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Voluntary
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Barnardo's - New Directions
Barnardo's New Directions was established in February 2000 to work with young people involved in persistent and serious offending behaviour.
Client Group: Young people,Offenders
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Barnardo's 16+ Aberdeenshire - Throughcare and Aftercare Service
16+ Aberdeenshire is a Barnardo's (Scotland) Project which has been operating since 1995 and works in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council working closely with various departments such as social work, housing and criminal justice.
The service aims to support vulnerable young people who are gaining independence while living in the community. It is provided on a voluntary basis to young people aged 16 to 21 years who were previously looked after by the local authority.
Client Group: Supported housing,Children in care,Young people,Advice agencies, Young people
Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Voluntary
Barnardo's Scotland - Introduction
Barnardo's Scotland provide a number of services for young people and families in the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire areas.
Client Group: Children, Young people, Families
Organisation Type: Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Barnardo's Scotland Fostering (Aberdeen)
Barnardo's Scotland Fostering (Aberdeen) provides children with full time foster homes when it is not possible for them to live with their own family. The service also provides short break (respite) care to support birth families and full time foster carers.
Client Group: Adoption, Fostering,Respite care, Children, Young people
Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen
Befriend A Child
The Befriend a Child scheme recruits, trains, matches and then supports adult volunteers to befriend vulnerable children / young people aged 5 to 12 years old. Volunteers are expected to make a minimum time commitment of one year seeing the child / young person for a few hours twice a month.
Client Group: Volunteering,Befriending Groups, Carers,Children
Organisation Type: Voluntary, Scottish Charity
Area Covered: Aberdeen