Forces Children's Education

Moving to Scotland

These pages of the Enquire website are especially helpful if a forces family have been deployed Scotland having previously been based in other regions of the UK, or abroad.

Starting School

The build up to a child starting school can feel different for everyone. It may be an exciting step, but can also come with lots worry and questions. Your child should be well supported throughout the planning process by you, your family, support network and educators, click the button below to read some tips, advice and facts about starting primary.

What the Law says about additional support for learning

Providing up-to-date and easy to understand information about the right to additional support for learning in Scotland Enquire has created a very informative guide to your legal rights to support.

The Enquire What is ASL? Factsheet

This Enquire factsheet explains the key information you need to know about your child’s rights to additional support for learning. Accessibility tools on the Enquire website allow you to access this guide in an easy way for you including: more than 100 languages; with text-to-speech software; in different fonts, type sizes with different text and background colour combinations and more.

Getting support

This section of our website explains how a child’s support should be planned, including needs can be
identified and assessed.

Enquire Parents Guide

The Parent’s Guide is no longer available in print, but can be accessed via the Enquire website for free. Additionally, every library in Scotland has been sent a copy for parents to view should they prefer to read a printed copy.

About Enquire

Enquire’s vision is that all children in Scotland are supported, included and listened to throughout their education. Their role in making this a reality is to offer advice and information about children’s rights to additional support for learning – to children, young people, parents, carers and professionals.

Enquire’s values

• Seek to understand the experience of everyone we work with.
• To treat everyone with equal respect and care.
• They believe that working together gets the best outcome.
• They are dedicated to providing high quality advice, information and service.
• They are courageous champions of children’s rights.