Parenting and Childcare
Aberlour Childcare Trust
Aberlour supports disabled children in a variety of settings throughout Scotland. They have qualified and unqualified staff and waking staff at night. Their premises can accommodate children during the day, and for respite care at night. The Kingseat Proj ...
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Attention Fife - ADHD
Attention Fife is committed to developing an holistic support and information service to the many families within Fife affected by ADHD type difficulties. We can offer parents regular newsletters, information updates and access to holistic therapies at re ...
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Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland promotes action for the prevention and relief of poverty among children and families with children across Scotland. To achieve this we campaign to raise awareness of the causes, extent, nature and impact of po ...
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ChildLine Scotland
ChildLine is the free 24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK. Children and young people can call our helpline about any problem, at any time - day or night. ChildLine's counsellors are there to help you find ways to sort things out.
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Children and Families (Disabilities) Team
This Team of 5 Social Workers and 3 Social Work Assistants covers the whole of Fife. For the purposes of the Team, the definintion of a child affected by disability is 'a child with a severe learning or physical disability; or life threatening or chronic ...
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Children's Hospice Association Scotland
The Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is a Scottish Charity established in 1992 by a small group of parents and professionals who understood the needs of children with life limiting conditions and their families.
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Contraception and Sexual Health Service
We provide a range of services on a variety of health related issues in offices all around Fife. We have clinics in Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Cowdenbeath, Cupar, Methil and St Andrews. Please click on the following document for information on th ...
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Dietitian
Can offer dietary advice for a wide variety of needs.
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Early Years Resource Centre
The Resource Centre is managed for the benefit of parents and carers of children under the age of eight. It is managed on a voluntary basis. The Centre aims to promote the interests of children under eight, and those who work with them.
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ENABLE Scotland (Fife Services)
The aim is to provide practical support to parents of children with special needs and to extend these children’s social opportunities. The clientele are 60 families who have a child with special needs. The scheme takes referrals from birth to 18 years.
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Epilepsy Clinic
There is a weekly clinic for the assessment and treatment of childhood disorders at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. A trained counsellor from the Epilepsy Association attends the Clinic, which caters for the whole of Fife
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Fife Action on Autism
The aim is to support families affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorders, to raise awareness of the conditions and press for appropriate provision for needs. The clientele are people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and their families.
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Fife Childcare Information Service
Fife's Childcare Information Service provides comprehensive advice and information about childcare and early education in Fife. Parents can now contact the telephone helpline, email or log onto website to find out about the most suitable childcare for the ...
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Fife Gingerbread
Fife Gingerbread is an association for one parent families with a network of local, self help groups throughout Fife. Free membership provides access to: Information and advice, individual support both practical and emotional, Bi-monthly newsletter, web s ...
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Home Start East Fife
This organisation provides home visiting volunteers who offer friendship and practical help to families with children under 5. Volunteers are usually parents themselves who wish to offer time and friendship and share experience
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Maternity Action
Maternity Action is a national charity working to end inequality and promote the health and well-being of all pregnant women, their partners and children from before conception through to the child's early years.
What we do:
Research We undertake ...
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Maternity Provision
Maternity care in Fife is geared to making pregnancy and birth as normal as possible with the widest choice for women. Antenatal and postnatal care is carried out locally with the majority of midwives based in GP surgeries and making home visits. Birth op ...
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Muirhead Outreach Project
Muirhead Outreach Project is a small Fife based charity. We support children, young people and families who are experiencing difficulties within their home, school and community. We offer children and young people individual support e.g. anger management, ...
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Relationships Scotland Family Mediation Tayside & Fife
Family mediation is a way of resolving the disputes that accompany the breakdown of parental and family relationships, outside the adversarial process / a means of establishing communication between separating or divorced parents. With the support o ...
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Seal Association
The aim is to provide support and guidance for children with behavioural difficulties, special needs and their families. The activities are weekly group activities, befriending, respite and confidence building.
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The Cottage Family Centre
The Cottage Family Centre serves the Central Kirkcaldy area and caters for the needs of families with pre-school children in a holistic way. We focus in particular on those vulnerable to social exclusion as a result of factors such as poverty, unemploymen ...
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Time 4 U
Child centred service providing individual support to children affected by parental substance abuse misuse, child and parent sessions, group sessions and practical support in accessing relevant services. Video Interaction Guidance work and Throughcare are ...
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Woodlands Family Unit
A family centre for parents and their children living primarily in or around the local area. We offer a drop in service, providing a warm and comfortable environment where you can have a coffee and chat with other parents. Information and advice is given ...
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Working for Families
Following a Sustainability Review undertaken by Opportunities Fife partners in November 2010, Fife Council has brought together Employability projects Working for Families, EQUAL and Opportunities for You to become a single client facing service deliverin ...
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Young Mothers Initiative
This is an outreach service to support pregnant schoolgirls and young mothers and to assist them in continuing their education. The service covers all secondary schools in Fife.
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