Children and Family Services
Today, CHILDREN 1ST provides 46 services in 17 local authority areas as well as four national services including ParentLine Scotland which is the free, national telephone helpline for anyone with a concern about a child. Between April 2007 and March 2011CHILDREN 1ST operated ChildLine Scotland on behalf of the NSPCC.
CHILDREN 1ST has pioneered the use of the Family Group Conference in Scotland, and also provides a befriending service “Bfriends”, several local family support services, a number of abuse and trauma recovery services across Scotland, and the national Safeguarding in Sport service.
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