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 and working on 5 September 2026. If one has broken, [tell us](/contact) and we'll fix it.

Your child's rights to support at school are set by national law and are the same in every council area — 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 exists because finding your own council's information is harder than it should be: page names vary (“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 vary a lot in depth. Wherever yours falls short, the national routes apply everywhere: Enquire (0345 123 2303) can explain your rights and your council's obligations for free, and our school support guide covers the escalation ladder — from a meeting with the school all the way to the tribunal — that works identically in every council area.