Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Respond
We aim to make a real difference to people with learning disabilities by providing effective and flexible support to help them to improve their lives. Respond works with children and adults with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma, as well as those who have abused others, through psychotherapy, advocacy, campaigning and other support. Respond also aims to prevent abuse by providing training, consultancy and research.
Rights4me
This is the website of the Children's Rights Director for England (CRD) – Roger Morgan. With his team Roger spends lots of time listening to what children and young people who live away from home have to say about how they are looked after.
Runnymede Trust
Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank. We generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement
Save the Children
Save the Children works in 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Scope
We're all about changing society for the better, so that disabled people and their families can have the same opportunities as everyone else. We work with disabled people and their families at every stage of their lives. We offer practical support – from information services to education and everyday care. We challenge assumptions about disability, we influence decision makers and we show what can be possible. Everything we do is about creating real and lasting positive change in individual lives and in the world around us. We believe that together we can create a better society.
Scottish Refugee Council
Scottish Refugee Council is an independent charity dedicated to providing advice and information to people seeking asylum and refugees living in Scotland.
Sense
Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. Deafblindness refers to a combination of sight and hearing impairment which causes difficulties in a range of areas including communication, access to information and mobility. At Sense we offer high-quality, flexible services across the UK, using skilled staff and a dedicated network of volunteers. We work with a wide range of deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people, as well as those who have a single-sensory impairment with additional needs. We take pride in offering specialist services built around the wishes of each person we support and enabling them to be as independent as possible. We work with children, young people, adults and older people with a progressive sight and hearing loss, offering a range of housing, educational and leisure opportunities.
Shaping Our Lives
Shaping Our Lives National User Network’s vision is of a society which is equal and fair where all people have the same opportunities, choices, rights and responsibilities – a society where people have choice and control over the way they live and the support services they use.
Social Determinants of Health
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries.
Social Platform
The Social Platform and its members are committed to the advancement of the principles of equality, solidarity, non discrimination and the promotion and respect of fundamental rights for all within Europe and in particular the European Union.
Stonewall
Stonewall works to achieve equality and justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation, committed to supporting vulnerable and marginalised people in society. The Trust provides grants to grassroots voluntary and community groups working in deprived communities in the UK, with a focus on Birmingham and the Black Country. It also works with researchers, think tanks and government, often in partnership with other grant-makers, seeking to overcome the structural barriers to a more just and equal society.
The BEARR Trust
BEARR has continued to concentrate on health and social welfare issues, with particular emphasis on care of vulnerable groups and reform of the way the state deals with or looks after them. It is based in the UK and managed by a number of trustees with long experience and extensive knowledge of the countries of the region. BEARR has many partners among small and medium-sized voluntary and charitable organisations in the countries of the region. The Trust focuses on: supporting organisations committed to reform in the health and social sectors facilitating networking and exchange of information encouraging sharing of experience and learning helping organisations working in the region to identify potential partners providing seed funding to assist selected organisations to launch or extend partnerships lobbying with and on behalf of organisations that share our objectives.
The Centre for Disability Research (CeDR)
We are an active Centre for research and teaching on disability and disablism. Pride is taken in the impact of our research and scholarship on policy making and social practices in disability arenas – regionally, nationally and internationally. Our core members and supporters bring a mix of disciplines, research methods, and skills to the study of disability and disablism. Sociology, psychology and social policy are our particular strengths. But we welcome the ideas and projects brought by other disciplines, perspectives and personal experiences: inclusion dedicated to enhancing the equality and human rights of disabled people is our watchword
The Centre for Health and Social Care Law
The Centre for Health and Social Care Law exists to promote research in the fields of Health and Social Care law. Its activities are carried out in relation to the theory and practice of substantive law concerning Health and Social Care Law, the focus being principally upon: The Legal Aspects of Medical Practice The Law and Psychiatry Social care law Community care law The impact of human rights and equality law on disabled and other socially excluded peoples
The Centre for Social Justice
The Centre for Social Justice conducts social research to provide evidence and solutions that will help to overcome the causes of poverty and to promote social justice. Our research uses a wide range of methods and draws on the expertise of academics, practitioners, CSJ Alliance members, the voluntary sector and the general public. All policy research results in extensive analyses of the problem, such as prisoner re-offending rates, failing schools, child poverty and recommended solutions, which are published in major reports that are freely accessible on our website. To accompany each publication we host public education events such as roundtables, lectures, conferences, seminars, and engage closely with the media.
The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre
The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre is an independent research centre with funding from the Department for Education to provide high quality research, analysis and expert advice on the issues that promote or inhibit childhood wellbeing. The centre is a partnership between the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) and other centres at the Institute of Education, the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR) at Loughborough University and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration combining demography, economics, education, health promotion, psychology, social work, sociology, social policy and statistics.
The Council for Disabled Children
CDC aims to make a difference to the lives of disabled children and children with special educational needs. We do this by influencing Government policy, working with local agencies to translate policy into practice and producing guidance on issues affecting the lives of disabled children.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
e European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is an advisory body of the European Union. It was established in 2007 by a legal act of the European Union and is based in Vienna, Austria. The FRA helps to ensure that fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence about the situation of fundamental rights across the European Union and providing advice, based on evidence, about how to improve the situation. The FRA also informs people about their fundamental rights. In doing so, it helps to make fundamental rights a reality for everyone in the European Union
The Home Office
We're the lead government department for policies on immigration, passports, counter-terrorism, policing, equality, drugs and crime.
