We provide free and confidential legal advice by phone and email about Scots law relating to children and young people. Every phone call and email we get is answered by a qualified solicitor.
Free Advice Line
Our free and confidential legal advice about Scots law relating to children and young people can be given by phone or email.
We’re here to help children and young people, parents, relatives, carers and professionals who work with or for children and have a question about child law or children’s rights.
Our advice line is temporarily closed. We hope to re-open soon. You can still e-mail us for advice.
0300 3301 421
advice@sclc.org.uk
You have put all our minds at ease, including the child’s. I have had so many sleepless nights and I feel so much better.
Last year we gave free legal advice to 3210 people through our adviceline.
About Us
Our free and confidential legal advice about Scots law relating to children and young people can be given by phone or email. We’re here to help parents, relatives, carers and professionals who work with or for children and have a question about child law.
We can advise on all aspects of child law, including: education, additional support needs, health, residence, contact, youth offending, accessing records, confidentiality, children’s rights, children’s hearings and disputes involving the court.
Our Latest News
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Alan Inglis
Everyone at the Scottish Child Law Centre is deeply saddened by the passing of Alan Inglis. A board member at the Centre since 2018, he strongly supported the Centre’s aims of ensuring better access to legal advice and justice for children, young people, and families...
Community Clinic Round Up
We carried out a 6-week pilot of in person community Clinic in Govanhill in November 2022. The aim of the clinic was to reach some of Scotland’s most vulnerable children and to increase the diversity and equality of those we are delivering legal advice to. Stakeholder...
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