How can we help you and your family?

Welcome to our support and advice. Our single parent tailored topics and search option offers face-to-face family support services and a wealth of advice and information on various topics.

Making the most of your family budget

We are in a cost of living crisis with inflation at its highest it has been for 30 years and energy, petrol, food, as well as tax are rising. We have put together some information and links to help make the most of family budgets.

Includes: Your budgeting and debt planner Reduce your living costs What to do if you are in debt Are you getting all the benefits you should be?

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Your benefits

The benefits system has undergone a major change recently. We can help you to understand what benefits you are entitled to.

Includes: Universal credit Benefits from the Scottish Government Disability, sickness and care benefits Scottish Child Payment

Your children

We can help single parents on a range of topics regarding their children, including maintenance, children getting older, one to one support and more.

Includes: Child and parent activities Child contact arrangements Best Start Scotland

Your money

We have a direct money and debt advice service and information and tips about managing money.

Includes: Scottish Child Payment Search for Grants and Food banks Money and debt advice

Separating

If you have recently separated from your partner and are now a single parent it's important to know what your first steps might be.

Includes: Just separated Your Parenting Plan

Having a baby

This advice includes benefits and other income you may be entitled to when you’re pregnant or just had a baby, taking time off, return to work and more.

Includes: Money when you are expecting, or just had a baby Time off work when pregnant or just had a baby

Support for you

Our local services offer a range of face-to-face services for single parents using a family support model.

Includes: One-to-one support Support for dads Crisis support

Your home

Deciding where to live often depends on your income and the choices or options available. Our information includes advice about renting and owning a home.

Includes: Housing options Cold weather payment Heating your home

Support if you’re a student

We offer a wide range of support for single parent students. This includes information on further and higher education funding to help make the road to employment and education manageable.

Includes: Further education and training Financial help in higher education

Health and wellbeing

We offer a mental health and wellbeing support service to single parents and their families.

Includes: Support for you and your family Wellbeing tips Tips to reduce anxiety

Face-to-face services

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One Parent Families Scotland local service hubs offer support through a family support model. Our services include one-to-one, parent group support, financial and employability support, and more.

  Angus   Dundee   Edinburgh   Falkirk   Glasgow   North Lanarkshire

News updates for single parents

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Our news updates reflect the work of One Parent Families Scotland and the issues affecting single parents today.

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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: