Legal help How to get help for a child or young person Information for practitioners and professionals Get legal help for a child or young person If you are a professional or practitioner - support, advocacy or advice worker or foster carer - who is working with a child or young person who has a question about the law or a legal problem, then we can help. INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE There is information on our website about some frequently asked questions about the law affecting children and young people and children's rights: law and rights. We have case studies which give examples of some of the legal problems children and young people can experience in their lives and shows how getting a lawyer can help them to resolve the problem. LEGAL INFORMATION SERVICE You can contact us to ask questions about the law affecting children and young people in Scotland and children's rights : we can provide information and guidance about how the law can be used to help the child or young person. Calls to our Legal Information Service are dealt with by qualified, practicing child law solicitors with current experience of working directly with children and young people. That means we know about the real life problems that children and young people face and we are experienced in helping them understand how the law affects them. We can help you work out if there are things that you can do to help the young person, and we can identify if the young person needs to get a lawyer to protect their rights. Call free on 0808 129 0522 to speak to one of our solicitors. LEGAL OUTREACH - LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE If a child or young person needs their own solicitor we can represent children and young people in Edinburgh and the Lothians, Glasgow and the surrounding area. We can work with children and young people up to 21 years old. Our Street Legal project represents young people up to the age of 26 if they are experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Edinburgh. We provide outreach services - that means that the child or young person can choose a time and place where they are comfortable and we will come out to meet them. Meeting a solicitor will not cost the young person anything. We work in a child-centred way which means we listen and let the young person set the pace and communicate in the way that works best for them. If we cannot take a case, we will do what we can to help you to find a local, legal aid lawyer for the child or young person you are working with. If you'd like to know more, get in touch.
INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE There is information on our website about some frequently asked questions about the law affecting children and young people and children's rights: law and rights. We have case studies which give examples of some of the legal problems children and young people can experience in their lives and shows how getting a lawyer can help them to resolve the problem. LEGAL INFORMATION SERVICE You can contact us to ask questions about the law affecting children and young people in Scotland and children's rights : we can provide information and guidance about how the law can be used to help the child or young person. Calls to our Legal Information Service are dealt with by qualified, practicing child law solicitors with current experience of working directly with children and young people. That means we know about the real life problems that children and young people face and we are experienced in helping them understand how the law affects them. We can help you work out if there are things that you can do to help the young person, and we can identify if the young person needs to get a lawyer to protect their rights. Call free on 0808 129 0522 to speak to one of our solicitors. LEGAL OUTREACH - LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE If a child or young person needs their own solicitor we can represent children and young people in Edinburgh and the Lothians, Glasgow and the surrounding area. We can work with children and young people up to 21 years old. Our Street Legal project represents young people up to the age of 26 if they are experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Edinburgh. We provide outreach services - that means that the child or young person can choose a time and place where they are comfortable and we will come out to meet them. Meeting a solicitor will not cost the young person anything. We work in a child-centred way which means we listen and let the young person set the pace and communicate in the way that works best for them. If we cannot take a case, we will do what we can to help you to find a local, legal aid lawyer for the child or young person you are working with. If you'd like to know more, get in touch.