Family Support Service

Quarriers’ Family Support Service provides services to children, young people and families affected by disability throughout Dumfries & Galloway.

We have two offices bases, in Dumfries and in Stranraer, where you will find helpful staff, information and activity areas used for creative play and the development of independent living skills.

Family Support Service

Contact Details


  • Quarriers Family Support Service
    161 Brooms Road
    Dumfries
    DG1 2SH
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  • Quarriers Family Support Service
    27 Church Street
    Stranraer
    DG9 7JG
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What we do

  • family-based short breaks for children with significant disabilities (accessed by referral from social services)
  • support for families affected by disability; providing help to parents, children and young people at home or in their local communities (accessed by referral from social services, or self-referral through personalised budgets or SDS)
  • fathers project for dads and male carers of disabled children supported by the service.