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Birth Connections is for birth parents, or member of a birth family, who have a child who has been adopted. We provide peer support, life skills, community and more.

When to apply, choose a nursery or childminder, how to apply, your preferences, priority places, allocation of places, confirmation of your child's place, apply for an extra year.

How many free hours you can get for early learning, nursery or childcare, how you can use your hours, pay for additional (wraparound) hours childcare.

Supported carer placements are a 'stepping stone' to independence through helping a young person develop the skills necessary to move on to independent living.

Nursery or childcare for three and four-year-olds, two-year-olds, and children up to two years old who get priority places.

The benefits of early learning and childcare, free nursery places and childcare, how many free hours you can get, apply for a nursery or childcare place, pay for additional hours,

If you're tolerant, flexible and patient, and you're interested in finding out what's involved, read our resources about adoption, the adoption process, and real adoption stories.

Learn about fostering, the steps to becoming a foster carer, how payments for fostering work, and read foster carer stories.

Becoming a foster carer or adoptive parent is a highly rewarding experience. Find out more about fostering, adoption, supported care and kinship care.

What GIRFEC means, values and principles, core components, the GIRFEC approach, Renfrewshire and GIRFEC, GIRFEC national practice model.