For parents and carers

School support information for all 32 Scottish councils

The law is national. Delivery is local. These are the official pages where each council explains its own arrangements.

Reviewed by ADHD Scot,

Every link below goes to the council's own website, using the council's own page title, so what you read is their information, not our paraphrase of it. All 32 were checked on 5 September 2026; the Orkney links were updated on 20 October 2026 after the old addresses stopped working. If one has broken, tell us and we'll fix it.

Your child's rights to support at school come from national legislation, the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 — our school support guide explains them, including why none of it requires a diagnosis. But additional support for learning is delivered by your local authority, and each of Scotland's 32 councils organises and describes its arrangements differently.

This page brings the links together in one place because page names vary between councils (“additional support needs”, “additional support for learning”, “inclusion”), and council websites restructure often. Here is the current official page for every council, A to Z.

All 32 councils, checked 5 September 2026

Aberdeen and the north-east

Highlands and Islands

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles)

No dedicated additional support for learning page was findable when we last checked.

Educational psychology

Tayside and Fife

Edinburgh and the Lothians

Glasgow, Lanarkshire and the west

Central

Ayrshire and the south

If your council's page doesn't answer your question

Council pages differ in depth. If yours does not answer your question, national routes are available: Enquire (0345 123 2303), the Scottish Government-funded advice service for additional support for learning, offers free advice, and our school support guide covers the escalation ladder — from a meeting with the school to the Additional Support Needs Tribunal. The Act is national legislation, but each council describes its own arrangements.