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About Aberlour
Aberlour Children’s Charity helps disadvantaged children and families in Scotland have a brighter future. We offer a range of services across Scotland. These offer practical and emotional care and support, including:
- Residential and Fostering – We believe every child deserves a safe, loving and nurturing home. We provide residential and foster care for children unable to live with their families.
- Recovery – We are there for families affected by addiction. From a parent or a carer struggling with drug use to a child affected by a parent’s addiction.
- Early Years – We lighten the load for families that need extra help raising their young children.
- Disability – We ensure children with a disability get the right care and support they need. Every family is unique, and we will go the extra mile so both children and their families feel loved and cared for.
- Urgent Assistance Fund – We give immediate relief to families who are struggling to provide food, heating and clothing for their children.
- Early Intervention – We are there for families before difficulties become too large to overcome. Sometimes stepping in at the right time can stop someone’s troubles deepening.
Our Vision
The children, young people and families we work with face a great many challenges. Consider those of the family of a child with very complex needs, desperate for a break from their dual roles as carers. Or those of the child, growing up with a parent using drugs or alcohol, struggling in school due to chaos at home. Or what of those of the young person coming of age in a residential children’s home, thinking about the future?
At Aberlour, we recognise the unique nature of human experience. Our person-centred approach to service delivery quite simply, changes lives while our influence in the political sphere ensures that the voices of our children and families are heard when legislation is made. We make a unique contribution to supporting those with very complex life histories and needs, managing to support those where other providers have failed.
This approach lies at the heart of our vision which is:
“To transform the lives of the children and families we work with and, through this, contribute to building a fairer and more equal society.”
Our Values
These are the guiding principles that underpin all that we do. Our values inform our interactions with the children and families we work with, external partners and stakeholders, and importantly, with one another as colleagues.
Respect means acting in a way that shows we care about the feelings of one another, and that we listen to one another’s opinions. As a person-centered organisation that stands up for the rights of all children and families, a culture of respect is inherent in all of our work.
Integrity means doing the right thing, even when no-one else is watching. We recognise that to fully represent the concerns of Scotland’s children and families, we may have to go against the grain or take difficult decisions. We will strive to act with integrity at all times.
Innovative means finding new, efficient ways to do things. We are committed to learning and developing improved ways of helping Scotland’s children and families. We will be innovative in our approaches, to ensure we are doing the best for our children and families.
Challenging means testing ourselves and those around us. It means not accepting the status quo. Within Aberlour, we will challenge ourselves to be the best we can be, as a provider of choice. Externally, we will use our campaigning voice to challenge decisions in the policy sphere, to ensure that our families’ voices are heard.