Children and Family Services

VSA's Children & Family Services incorporates Aberdeen Children's Society, Linn Moor School and Richmondhill House and provides help to families on low incomes in times of crisis, support to children with special needs and families experiencing the emotional distress of break-up. We aim to enable children to have the childhood many of us took for granted.

The services are based at a number of locations across Aberdeen, including VSA's offices on the Castlegate, Aberdeen Children's Society Maisie Munro Centre, Richmondhill House in Richmondhill Place, and Linn Moor School in Peterculter. Some services are mainly for families in Aberdeen and the surrounding area, whilst Linn Moor School and Richmondhill House help children and families across the country.

Aberdeen Children's Society provides community services to children and families in Aberdeen. The services provided within this area include counselling services for children and families, toy library, integrated playgroup, Saturday fun clubs, after school clubs and holiday play schemes. Link for more info and contact details

Richmondhill House is managed by Shona Duff. This Family Support and Assessment Centre offers residential care to families and also has a growing range of outreach services. The main focus of Richmondhill House's work is child protection, risk assessment, child development, parenting skills and supervised contact. link for more info and contact details.

Linn Moor School is headed up by Head of Care, Sharon Napier and Head of Education, Karen Gebbie-Smith. Linn Moor School provides up to 26 residential educational places to young people aged from 5 to 18 years of age. All the students have severe and complex learning difficulties, many demonstrate challenging behaviour and most are further challenged by autism. The school provides individually packaged placements, within a group living setting, for 52 weeks per year though most students are placed during school terms with additional respite being provided as required.

Also see the following associated projects:

• Richmondhill House
• Linn Moor School
• Aberdeen Children's Society - Supporting Families going through distress or separation
• Aberdeen Children's Society - Supporting children with additional support needs
• Aberdeen Children's Society - Social Work Support for families in crisis
• Aberdeen Children's Society - Day Care Organisers for Children with Additional Support Needs
• Aberdeen Children's Society - Counselling advice for young people
• Aberdeen Children's Society

Please see our Services and Directorates information for further details.