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Family & Relationship Counselling

 

Scottish Marriage Care

Telephone: 0141 222 2166

www.scottishmarriagecare.org

 

Provide relationship counselling services throughout Scotland to couples or individuals who are married, living together, living apart, divorced or separated.  They also provide counselling services to families who are living with conflict.

 

Family Mediation

 

Family Mediation Scotland

Telephone 0845 119 2020

www.familymediationscotland.org.uk

 

Family mediation services enable separated parents to meet together with a trained mediator to achieve agreement on future parenting.  Family mediation also provides contact centres across Scotland where non-resident parents can enjoy contact with their children where no other arrangements have succeeded.

Family Support Partnership Lanarkshire

www.familysupport.org.uk

 

Provides all the contact details for local relationship counselling, sexual therapy, child contact centres and family mediation services in North and South Lanarkshire.

Citizen’s Advice Bureau

www.adviceguide.org.uk

 

The advice guide offers online independent advice and a ‘find your local CAB’ tool.  If you do not have access to the internet you can find the number for your local office in the Yellow Pages.

 

Scottish Child Law Centre

 

Legal Adviceline for children:  0800 328 8970

Advice for parents, professionals, or carers: 0131 667 6333

www.sclc.org.uk

 

Provides advice on legal issues relating to a young person under 18 years old.

Stepparent Adoption

 

British Association of Adoption & Fostering

Scottish Centre:  0131 220 4749

www.baaf.org.uk

 

Provide advice on all aspects concerning adoption, including stepparent adoption.  They also have offices in England, Wales and N. Ireland.