Glasgow City Council provides and purchases services for vulnerable children, young people and families. These services include:
More information about these services can be found by using the links on the left hand side of this page. The Child and Family Services Plan will also provide more information.
Social Work Services offer assistance to children and their families facing difficulties in their lives who would benefit from advice that would make a difference to how they approach and work through those difficulties.
Families often find these problems overwhelming. They also face barriers to achieving a better start in their children’s lives and a better outcome to their parenting. Social Work Services aim to work with families and partner organisations to create positive opportunities for change in their lives.
For information on how to contact your local social work office see How to Access Services. Apart from initial information and advice it is usually necessary to be assessed for a service. There is no charge for assessment, but for some services there may be a charge. This normally depends upon your income. For fuller information on how to comment, compliment or complain see Contact Us.
Our commitment to you
Emergency situations
If you have an emergency:
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within office hours, you will be given an urgent appointment
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outwith office hours, phone Social Work Standby Services on 0800 811005
For more information see Standby/Out of hours service
Further information is available from Children and Family Services Leaflets. This is available in portable document format for downloading. The Adobe Acrobat reader can be freely downloaded from the Adobe web site.