This page details a list of local support services in Scottish Borders that you can contact for further support for your family. These services range from family support to specific support needs.
If you run a service and it is not in this list or your details may have changed, please contact us so we can adjust.
Aberlour Options – Borders provides a range of short break respite care and support services for parents and carers with children affected by learning disabilities in the Borders.
Aberlour Child Care Trust
Room 2.23, Integrated Children’s Services, Scottish Borders Council,
Paton Street, Galashiels TD1 3AS
T: 01896 754 003
E: options.borders@aberlour.org.uk
BANG is a group set up by parents of children with special needs to support families who have children with additional, complex or rare conditions. They meet monthly to offer information and support, provide a link to other services, and have a directory of information on benefits, funding, respite and other issues.
Borders Additional Needs Group
c/o Nicola Corbett, 70 Kenilworth Avenue, Galashiels TD1 2DB
T: 01896 755 417
T: 01896 756 893
E: info@bordersadditionalneeds.org
W: www.bordersadditionalneeds.org
The Borders Carers Centre provides free independent help and support to unpaid family carers throughout the Scottish Borders.
Borders Carers Centre
Brewerybrig, Low Buckholmside, Galashiels TD1 1RT
T: 01896 752 431
W: www.borderscarerscentre.co.uk
Cheviot Youth supports young people by encouraging personal and social development. They currently run two youth projects in Kelso and Jedburgh.
Cheviot Youth
The Planet, Abbotseat Road (Golf Course Road), Kelso TD5 7SL
T: 01573 228 285
T: 01573 420 703
T: 07958 277766
W: cheviotyouth.co.uk
Children 1st’s service in the Scottish Borders focuses on supporting children and adults to recover from abuse. They support survivors to express their feelings and make sense of their experiences, using art, play and drama to help children recover, and involving parents and carers in the healing process.
Children 1st Borders
Ettrick Resource Centre, Ettrick Road, Selkirk TD7 5AJ
T: 08000 28 22 33
E: ettrick@children1st.org.uk
Scottish Borders’ Family Support Service provides support to help families and parents/carers. They operate from six centres in Eyemouth, Galashiels, Hawick, Innerleithen, Kelso and Selkirk; and they offer a range of groupwork programmes, after-school clubs, drop-in services, play activities and family outreach.
W: www.scotborders.gov.uk/info/20054/children_and_families/595/family_support
Kooth.com is a free online counselling, advice and support service for young people aged between 10 and 16 years available in Glasgow and some other areas in Scotland.
It provides a safe secure means of accessing support with a specialist team of qualified counsellors and offers self-help tools and community spaces. The aim of Kooth is to support better emotional and mental health and wellbeing of young people and support is tailored to the individual young persons needs and situation.
The qualified counsellors are online 365 days a year. Monday to Friday, from 12 noon – 10pm and between 6pm- 10pm on weekends.
Kooth has no waiting list or referral process. Children and young people can access support for any issue they may be experiencing.
To access, young people simply register at www.kooth.com
Relationships Scotland supports individuals, couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties. Their office in Peebles offers a range of services, including family mediation, counselling, family support and supervised contact.
Relationships Scotland – Borders
PO Box 13753, Peebles EH45 8ZY
T: 01721 724 170
E: info@rsborders.org.uk
W: www.relationships-scotland.org.uk/find-a-local-service/family-mediation-services/borders
Action for Children’s Short Term Service works with the most vulnerable and at-risk young people, aged 8-18. The service offers an intensive programme of support for approximately 8 weeks and during this time can work with both young people and families in crisis.
Scottish Borders Short Term Service
Action for Children, Unit 10a (Ground Floor), Galabank Business Park,
Wilderhaugh, Galashiels TD1 1PR
T: 01896 750 173
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
W: www.speech-language-communication-company.uk
