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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.

Charleston Square is supported accommodation for care experienced young people aged between 16 and 25 years.

What kinship care is, assessment of kinship carers, the responsibilities of kinship carers and the local authority, kinship allowance.

What young carers do, the effects of being a young carer, the Young Carer Statement, where to get support.

Find out how to contact your local social work services for children.

How to make customer and business payments, other payment methods, access other services through MyAccount.

Find out what to do if you're worried about a child or young person's welfare, what you should look out for, and what might happen next.