• The Village – online community for parents with care experience

    The Village is an independent online community for parents with care experience who have children ages 0-5. You choose how you would like to be involved. You can find information, contact with others or get confidential one to one support. The video below tells you more about the village or…

  • Other Useful Housing Contacts

    Central Rents Team: 01698 524811 Home Contents Insurance: – New Application:  01698 524811                                                         – Make a Claim:      0345 165 5768 Antisocial Behaviour (24 Hour Service):     0300 123 1382 Telephone payments Rent/ Council Tax:    01698 403130 Tenant Participation Team:    01698 302565 Emergency Out of Hours Support Service:    0800…

  • Barnardo’s Youth Housing Support Service

    North Lanarkshire Youth Housing Support provides intensive housing support to young people aged 16-26 years 7 days per week. We offer independent and sustainment skills to live in your own home. Positive Destinations Barnardo’s Positive Destinations provides support to Care Experienced Young People aged 15-26 years. Training Flat Reception Flat…

  • Sum it up

    Sum it up is an adult learning programme offered through Community Learning and Development that can help you with the everyday use of numbers, such as when paying bills or budgeting. Sum it up can help you to build the confidence and skills to make using numbers easier for you….

  • Support for parents

    Community Learning and Development arrange activities to help children, parents or family members learn together in small groups in schools, nurseries and community settings. Family learning can help both your child and you as a parent or carer. Activities can focus on: We also run programmes that can help you and your…

  • Qualifications you can gain as an adult learner

    Our trained staff from community learning and development deliver courses in local community facilities. We sometimes work with colleges or other organisations. Some of the courses you can study lead to Scottish Qualifications Authority certificates. These are examples of the kind of subjects you could study: If you are interested in finding…

  • Adult literacy and numeracy

    Help with reading and number skills for adults We offer courses in your area to help you improve your reading, writing and number skills.  You may be able to gain a qualification in some subjects. Get in touch if you would like to talk to someone about improving your basic…

  • Throughcare and Aftercare Nurses

    There are two throughcare and aftercare nurses in North Lanarkshire who are available to support care leavers aged 16 -26 years to access all area of health and wellbeing.  The nurses will be able to give advice and can spend individual time with care leavers. This can be anything from…

  • Human Rights

    Human rights are the basic things that every person needs to live with dignity and develop their potential, such as food, housing, education, healthcare, the right to expression, to hold religious beliefs, and to be protected against violence, abuse and discrimination. Everyone has human rights no matter who they are, where…

  • UNCRC (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)

    The vision is that Scotland is a  place where children’s human rights are embedded in all aspects of society. This means that all decision making takes account of children’s rights and where all children have a voice and are empowered to defend their human rights. We want to recognise, respect…