A national residential rehabilitation service designed to support women and their children through recovery has opened in Dundee - the second of its kind in Scotland.
Experts say that women with problematic drug use often avoided support services due to the fear of having their children taken into care. But at the Cowan Grove recovery house, developed in partnership with Hillcrest Homes, the children of women who are receiving support for drug or alcohol addiction can stay with their mothers during their treatment.
The facility, run by the Aberlour children’s charity, admitted its first residents in December. It can support four women from across Scotland and their children up to the age of five at any one time.
