Counselling

Counselling offers an opportunity for you to reflect on what’s going on in your life in a one to one conversation with a qualified counsellor. Each session will provide a safe and confidential place for you to think out loud and put feelings into words. Counselling can offer an opportunity to slow down, take stock of emotions and look for alternative perspectives on your worries, stresses and fears. Kindred runs a counselling service providing specialist support to parents and carers of children with complex needs. Counselling sessions last an hour and you usually attend weekly or fortnightly. There is no charge to you for the Kindred counselling sessions.

Latest

Our Kindred Spring e-newsletter 2023 is out!

Catch up with Kindred news and Kindred families in our latest edition of our e-newsletter!
The Kindred Cuppa is coming and you're invited

Kindred will be inviting one and all to have a Kindred Cuppa and fundraise for our vital service.
A festive end to Kindred's 2022!

Carols with Kindred was the perfect way to celebrate 2022 coming to a close.
Kindred Therapeutic Support Group

Kindred is beginning its latest Therapeutic Support Group for parent/carers of children with complex needs. Taking place in person in central Edinburgh the free group runs for 6 consecutive weeks on Thursdays in the early afternoon, beginning 27th April 2023.

Social Work Assessment (Section 23)

If your child has a disability or long-term health condition then you are likely to require additional help with family life. The Social Work department of your local authority has a duty to assess the needs of your child. This is called a Section 23 Assessment.
Accessing grants

Details of different funds and grant-giving trusts/charities that you can approach if needed, and some handy hints on applying.
Our vision and aims

Kindred's vision is to transform the lives of families of children with complex needs in Scotland.
Contact us

You can contact Kindred by phone, email and by post.
Fife Team

Kindred's Fife Team is based in Dunfermline, providing a service throughout Fife to parents of children with complex needs including advocacy, information and emotional support.
Education

Children with additional needs may need extra support in school, or you may feel that your child needs to attend a different school provision such as a language unit, another mainstream school or a special school. Depending on where you live, Kindred may be able to assist you with finding the right provision for your child.
Benefits

There are many different sources of financial support available to children with disabilities. Kindred may be able to support parents to apply for some of these benefits.
Child’s Planning Meeting (and YPPM)

CPM stands for Child’s Planning Meeting and YPPM stands for Young Person’s Planning Meeting.
Refer to us

For a referral please contact us by phone or email.
Our history

Kindred began supporting families in 1991 from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. We were known then as SNIP or Special Needs Information Point. We started with a founding team of two parents who each had a child with additional needs, keen to share their knowledge. Now we have a team of 12 staff over three bases in Scotland, and we are still a parent-led organisation.