This page contains links to organisations who provide help, support or information to children with additional support for learning and/or their families.
Enquire are the Scottish advice service for additional support for learning. They are funded by the Scottish Government and managed by Children in Scotland. Enquires vision is that all children in Scotland are supported, included, and listened to throughout their education. Their role in making this a reality is to offer advice and information – to children, young people, parents, carers and professionals – about children’s rights to additional support for learning.
Enquire - Telephone: 0345 123 2303; Email: info@enquire.org.uk
Let's Talk ASN Scotland is a free service for the parents of children with additional support needs who may require support in relation to a dispute or potential dispute with an education authority. The service also covers young people (aged 16 years and above who remain in school) with additional support needs. Let’s Talk ASN Scotland is a joint initiative of Govan Law Centre and Barnardo's. It is funded by the Scottish Government.
The service can be used by anyone who has the right to make a reference to the Additional Support Needs Tribunal. The Let’s Talk ASN Scotland service offers specialist independent advocacy throughout the process, and all cases are supervised by an experienced education law solicitor.
Let's Talk ASN Scotland - Telephone: 0141 445 1955; Email: advice@edlaw.org.uk
The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) helpline advises and assists individuals on issues relating to equality (and human rights), across Scotland, England and Wales. They can also accept referrals from organisations which, due to capacity or funding issues, are unable to provide 'in depth help and support' to local users of their services local users of their services. EASS will provide advice and information on disability discrimination claims.
Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) - Telephone: 0808 800 0082. You can contact them here.
Education Scotland provides support, information and resources for all areas of the Scottish curriculum and promotes developments within Scottish Education. Their website contains resources for Scottish teachers and educationalists from Early Years through to National Qualifications. The web service also provides support materials for teachers to support practice and continuous professional development.
Additional Support Needs Tribunal - Decision Database
There is also a database of anonymised decisions on our website. This provides information about the range and type of issues which have come before the Tribunal and the sort of evidence which is usually considered.
For children, young people and families with care experience - We provide impartial, one-to-one support to help you get in, stay in, or return to education. We know that having time and space for education often means getting other things sorted first: things like finances, housing, or childcare. We value our learners’ voices, views and opinions and take these seriously.
We have a learner advisory board, which guides and steers our work. If you would be interested in joining our board, contact us.
We can help you reach out to other services to find everything you need to support your studies.
For those supporting people with care experience - We develop partnerships between FE, HE, local authorities and the third sector. Together we strive to improve local practice. We put The Promise at the heart of everything we do, and champion the expertise that comes with lived experience.
At the HUB we are committed to making change.
We can provide training inputs and are working on a programme of virtual events for practitioners to share expertise in 2021.
