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One Parent Families Scotland aims to enable single parent families to achieve their potential, to reach a decent standard of living and contribute to Scottish society. Our vision is of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly.

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Stay informed with all our latest news, blogs and events.

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Single Parent Forum

Welcome to our community forum. Our forum is a place for parents to talk to other parents about whatever topics, issues and comments they may have that affects the daily lives of single parent families’.

OPFS Podcast

Hear from single parents, politicians, staff, volunteers and many more expert voices relating to single parent families.

Work with us

We recruit staff from a wide range of backgrounds and ages. Take a look at our current vacancies.

Single parent consultations

Our inclusive policy ensures our consultation work continues to represent the views of single parents.

Volunteering

We always welcome volunteers, either on a short or long-term basis. We have benefited from the skills of students, single parents and interested members of the public.

Training for practitioners

Our courses for practitioners help you keep up to date with issues affecting single parent families enabling you to support and advise them.

Fundraise for OPFS

With your donations we could reduce the impact of poverty brought about by the cost of living crisis. See our fundraising options.

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Covering your tracks

You may not want other people to know that you’ve been searching for information or help from OPFS.

When browsing the internet whether on a mobile phone, tablet or computer, you leave a ‘history’ trail of pages and sites you’ve visited.

It’s impossible to completely avoid being tracked online but if you’re worried about someone knowing which sites you’ve been looking at, there are some things you can do to help cover your tracks.

If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, try keeping another document or website open in a new tab or window while browsing. If someone comes in the room and you don’t want them to see what you’re looking at, you can quickly switch to another window or tab.

Deleting browsing history

You can delete the history of websites you’ve visited, but it’s important to know that if you delete your browsing history, someone else using the same device may notice.

If you share a tablet, mobile phone, laptop or computer with someone, they might notice that passwords or website addresses have disappeared from their history.

Find out how to remove your browsing history and other data from some of the most commonly used browsers:

Browsing in Private mode (incognito)

When browsing ‘incognito’, the internet browser won’t store cookies or record your browsing history on the computer, mobile or tablet.

This option is available on popular web browsers i.e. -

Toolbars

If you use a search toolbar in your web browser, remember that your searched items can be saved as part of your history. Find out how to delete your searched items from the following search engines: