Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Nottinghamshire County Council Childrens Services
Nottinghamshire is one of the largest children services authorities in the country, serving a population of over 700,000. The Children, Families and Culture department is working in partnership to improve the life chances of all 182,000 children and young people living in the county.
Nuffield Trust
Nuffield Trust is an authoritative and independent source of evidence-based research and policy analysis for improving health care in the UK. We aim to help provide the evidence base for better health care. Our work programme focuses on a number of key areas in which we have expertise.
ODI Overseas Development Institute
ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. We do this by locking together high quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. We work with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries.
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Health and Social Care
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict future trends. We set international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. We look, too, at issues that directly affect the lives of ordinary people, like how much they pay in taxes and social security, and how much leisure time they can take. We compare how different countries’ school systems are readying their young people for modern life, and how different countries’ pension systems will look after their citizens in old age. Drawing on facts and real-life experience, we recommend policies designed to make the lives of ordinary people better. We work with business, through the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, and with labour, through the Trade Union Advisory Committee. We have active contacts as well with other civil society organisations. The common thread of our work is a shared commitment to market economies backed by democratic institutions and focused on the wellbeing of all citizens. Along the way, we also set out to make life harder for the terrorists, tax dodgers, crooked businessmen and others whose actions undermine a fair and open society.
Orkney Islands Council
The Social Care and Health section has articles detailing the public services that help people when they are most in need of support, helping them get through the difficult times in their lives. Topics include criminal justice, social work, care and carers, fostering, adopting and looked after children and services for older people.
Peace International
We develop work both in the UK and overseas, throughout the African continent. Our main activities are focused on: Children rights Gender issues Human rights Malaria Peace and Reconciliation on Conflicts Community development We strive to promote social justice by voicing concerns of those who are most vulnerable both in the UK and in Africa specifically in DRC. We address a range of issues with the help of our partners and specialist agencies. We also support economic policy, and rally Support for marginalised groups, HIV/ AIDS awareness programmes, promote community initiatives and youth development.
Pembrokeshire County Council
We provide a wide range of social care and support services to meet the individual needs of people in Pembrokeshire, helping them to live as independent and fulfilled lives as possible. We have a legal duty to protect people, including children and young people from harm, neglect or abuse. People may need social care or support during a crisis, because of their age, long term ill health or disability, or because they are caring for others.
Perth & Kinross Council
As a Council, we have a responsibility to support, protect and care for people in our community. Across Perth and Kinross we have residents with a wide range of health and social care needs. These include families in crisis, young offenders, elderly people struggling to live independently, or children in need of the care and support of foster carers.
Peterborough City Council Children and Families
We offer lots of services to the children and families who live in Peterborough.
Plymouth City Council
Social Care and Health
Policy Exchange
Policy Exchange is the UK’s leading think tank. As an educational charity our mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy. The authority and credibility of our research is our greatest asset. Our research is independent and evidence-based and we share our ideas with policy makers from all sides of the political spectrum. Our research is strictly empirical and we do not take commissions. This allows us to be completely independent and make workable policy recommendations.
Portsmouth City Council
Welcome to our pages about health and social care in Portsmouth. We are committed to protecting and supporting our most vulnerable residents as well as promoting healthy lifestyles for local people.
Powys County Council
This section of the site deals with the Health and Social Services delivered by Powys County Council; you will also find links to other organisations dealing with health and social care issues relevant to people living in Powys.
Regional Voices for better health
Regional Voices champions the work of voluntary and community organisations to improve health, well-being and care across England. We are a partnership of nine regional networks. Together, we connect to over 25,000 voluntary and community organisations across England. Our coverage is broad, deep and well-established. We are a voluntary sector strategic partner of the Department of Health and work with the Local Government Association and other partners, supporting voluntary and community organisations to understand changes within the NHS and support organisations to influence these changes, in order to achieve better outcomes.
Renfrewshire Council
Social Care and Health
ResPublica
ResPublica is an independent, non-partisan UK think tank founded by Phillip Blond in November 2009. In July 2011, the ResPublica Trust was established as a not-for-profit entity which oversees all of ResPublica's domestic work. We focus on developing practical solutions to enduring socio-economic and cultural problems of our time, such as poverty, asset inequality, family and social breakdown, and environmental degradation. Our research combines a radical, civic philosophy with the latest insights in social and economic policy analysis to produce original, implementable solutions. We would like to foster new approaches to economic inequality, investment and group behaviour, so that the benefits of capital, trade and entrepreneurship are open to all. Our work is based on the premise that human relationships should once more be the centre and meaning of an associative society, and that we need to recover the language and practice of the common good. Consequently our ideas seek to strengthen the links between local individuals, organisations and communities that create social capital.
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
Health and Social Care
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
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