I love the campus...it's basically a huge park, lol. Anytime I had to do something like drop off an essay or take out some books from the library, I'd take the DC up and sometimes a friend each, feed the ducks, go for a walk, go for lunch and they'd had a day out at the same time.
The macrobert art centre is on campus, they have youth theatre groups, pantos and other productions on for children...it's quite good.
I also used to take them to fresher's week, they called it free week, lol...they'd wander round gathering up free pens and what have you - I don't know why they enjoyed that quite so much, but they really did.
There's a nursery on campus, I don't know much about it as mine were school aged, but I used to walk past it and see them all out for walks.
There's only one shop on campus (for groceries) but it's like a really well stocked corner shop and there are supermarkets in Stirling and a co-op in Bridge of allen, I know tesco deliver on campus, I'd assume asda and sainsbury's do too.
I've been in one set of halls and the chalets...they're ok, not amazing, as in a bit basic, but nothing actually wrong with them and I think they are in the middle of upgrading all the accommodation anyway. i haven't seen the family accommodation though.
Bridge of Allen is very naice, middle class rather than studenty, Stirling I've always liked anyway. The bit between the two isn't amazing, that's where Cornton Vale is and the Raploch estate, but, nowhere near as bad as comparable areas in other cities...possibly because it's only a tiny city, lol.
I found the uni fairly accommodating towards children, I took DS to a lecture once when his dad couldn't make it to collect him from me (he was stuck on the M8 rather than being feckless or anything) and I've been in other lectures with children sat playing on ipads or what have you and I've been to a couple of seminars with a sleeping baby or a child in a corner quietly colouring in - as long as everyone was ok with it they were absolutely fine with it. I mean I wouldn't recommend it as a longterm thing, but as a one off it really wasn't an issue.
Getting extensions on assignments wasn't as hard as they made out it would be either, you get lots of speeches about extensions only being granted if you were dying, lol, but actually I had to do it a couple of times and it was very straightforward and they did accept things like a DC being ill as long as you contacted them.
The only issues I had were that the timetable isn't finalized until very close to starting and you then have to sign up for seminars, which does make it a bit tricky for organizing childcare...but I know other people had similar issues in other unis. Also placements locations weren't always convenient at all, but in education it's not the individual uni that gives them out, so I don't know if that would be the case with social work or any other subject.