This page details a list of local support services in Inverclyde that you can contact for further support for your family. These services range from family support to specific support needs.
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Barnardo’s Nurture Service offers tailored family support to children aged 0-12 in Inverclyde. The service has a dedicated kinship project, designed specifically for kinship carers and the children they look after. The kinship project offers holistic support for families, addressing issues such as housing, benefits, challenging behaviour and difficult family dynamics. Families receiving this service can also access the full range of Barnardo’s support, including groups and befriending.
Nurture
Barnardo’s, 9 Terrace Road, Greenock PA15 1DJ
T: 01475 728 493
E: barnardosnurtureservicesincerclyde@barnardos.org.uk
W: www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/barnardos-nurture-service-inverclyde-thrive-your-time
Relationships Scotland supports individuals, couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties. They offer a range of services, including family mediation, counselling and supervised contact, to families throughout the West of Scotland.
Relationships Scotland – Family Mediation West of Scotland
19 Woodside Place, Glasgow G3 7QL
T: 0141 332 2731
E: info@fmwest.org.uk
W: www.relationships-scotland.org.uk/find-a-local-service/family-mediation-services/relationships-scotland-family-mediation-west
Family Support Volunteers works with the most vulnerable and hard to reach parents and carers in West Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde to support them to make positive changes and build their parenting capacity. Volunteers focus on strengthening attachment relationships, involving them in play, outdoor activities, reading and early literacy activities, as well as financial budgeting and healthy eating.
Family Support Volunteers
Action for Children, Centre 81, 2-16 Braes Avenue, Clydebank G81 1DP
T: 0141 952 3210
W: www.actionforchildren.org.uk/how-we-can-help/our-local-services/find-our-services-near-you/family-support-volunteers/
Barnardo’s Hear 4U project provides advocacy for children and young people, helping them to have their say in decisions that affect them. In Inverclyde, they prioritise children who are involved in the children’s hearing system and/or child protection process.
Hear 4U
Barnardo’s, 12 Lochfield Road, Paisley PA2 7RG
T: 0141 884 7896
E: hear4u@barnardos.org.uk
W: www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/hear-4-u-advocacy-service-renfrewshire
Home-Start centres provide a range of support to families with at least one child under five years old. Each centre has trained volunteers who support families who may be struggling with isolation, physical health, bereavement or a range of other issues.
Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde
70 Back Sneddon Street, Paisley PA3 2BY
T: 0141 889 5272
T: 01475 603 441
E: theteam@home-start-renfrewshire.org.uk
W: www.home-start-renfrewshire.org.uk
intandem is a mentoring programme for children and young people in kinship care. It supports young people aged 8 to 14 years, and often carries on beyond age 14.
Mentors can make a big difference to a young person, building their confidence, helping them to try new things and set goals. By meeting regularly (often weekly), they build a positive relationship and have lots of fun together.
intandem is managed by Inspiring Scotland and delivered by 11 charity partners in 19 local authorities.
Find out more www.intandem.scot
Inverclyde have a dedicated kinship care team that offers a range of support, and also works alongside voluntary and third sector agencies. The named kinship social worker can offer advice, guidance and emotional support through home visits, by telephone or via email and text; practical assistance and advocacy for kinship carers is also provided, when needed. Kinship carers can also benefit from financial advice, a Maximising Income Assessment, and a weekly kinship allowance (if approved). There is a youth justice worker to provide more focused work with young people. All kinship carers are invited to attend Family Ties, Inverclyde’s kinship support group. And the team also organise training on relevant issues and access to a local indoor soft play park.
Kinship Care Team
Inverclyde Council, Hector McNeil House, 7-8 Clyde Square, Greenock PA15 1NB
T: 01475 715 367
SFAD are open and accepting referrals for anyone over the age of 16 who is affected by a loved one’s alcohol or drug use. They just need a name and phone number and they will take it from there.
T: 08081 101011
T: 07554 686672
E: inverclydefss@sfad.org.uk
W: www.inverclydeadp.org.uk/
SLCo has a range of information services that provide help and advice to parents and carers about speech, language and communication. Their staff cover Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Edinburgh and Lothians, Glasgow, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Borders and Western Isles; they organise local support groups, workshops, one-to-one support, and can arrange a Speech Language Therapist guided support service.
The Speech Language Communication Company
42-44 Castle Street, Dundee DD1 3AQ
T: 01382 250 060
text: 07580 022 151
E: admin@s-l-co.uk
W: www.speech-language-communication-company.uk
Sense Scotland run several projects for families with disabled children and young people in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. TouchBase is a purpose built resource centre that helps school-aged children with communication support needs to develop their skills, take on new challenges and make friends. Their Parent Enabler Project provides a range of family support, tailored to the specific needs of the family.
Sense Scotland
43 Middlesex Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow G41 1EE
T: 0300 330 9292
E: info@sensescotland.org.uk
W: https://www.sensescotland.org.uk/what-we-do/touchbase-a-sense-of-place/
Ypeople, formerly YMCA Glasgow, provides support to a range of vulnerable groups. Their Ypeer Mentoring project is a service for care experienced young people (aged 14-26) in Glasgow and surrounding areas, where peer mentors support young people leaving care or making another life transition.
Ypeople
William Harte House, 15 Dava Street, Glasgow G51 2JA
T: 0141 565 1200
E: admin@ypeople.org.uk
W: www.ypeople.org.uk
