Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
4Children
We have spearheaded a joined-up, integrated approach to children’s services and work with a wide range of partners around the country to ensure children and families have access to the services and support they need in their communities. 4Children runs Sure Start Children’s Centres as well as family and youth services across Britain.
Aberlour Child Care Trust
Aberlour is the largest, solely Scottish, children’s charity and we provide help to over 6000 of Scotland’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families each year.
Action for Children
Action for Children supports and speaks out for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people, for as long as it takes to make a difference in their lives.
Action on Hearing Loss
We're experts in providing support for people with hearing loss and tinnitus. We provide day-to-day care for people who are deaf and have additional needs. We supply communication services and training. We offer practical advice to help people protect their hearing. We campaign to change public policy around hearing loss issues. We support research into an eventual cure for hearing loss and tinnitus.
Addaction
Our aim is to help transform the lives of people affected by drug and alcohol problems. We do this by offering a wide range of services in England and Scotland.
All Wales Child Protection Procedures Review Group
Children in Wales is the national umbrella children's organisation in Wales, bringing organisations and individuals together to: Make the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child a reality in Wales Fight for sustainable quality services and fair shares for all children and young people Ensure special attention and treatment for children in need Give children and young people a voice Children in Wales works to meet the following objectives: to support and develop strong networks to produce and disseminate information to represent and consult with members to develop policy, practice and research to raise public, political and professional awareness to support new and existing initiatives Children in Wales is a membership body and is open to individuals and organisations from a wide range of fields with varying interests, but all of whom are interested in improving the lives of children and young people in Wales.
Alzheimers Society
Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Ambitious about Autism
Ambitious about Autism works to improve the services available for children and young people with autism and increase awareness and understanding of the condition. We’re also committed to campaigning for change to ensure the needs of people with autism are met
Anti Bullying Network
The Anti-Bullying Network was established at the University of Edinburgh in 1999 with funding from the Scottish Executive to provide free anti-bullying support to school communities. In the first eight years that it operated on this basis, the Network gained a national reputation for the high quality of the services it provided to school communities.
Association for Real Change
ARC’s mission is to champion the development of high quality person centred services for everyone with a learning disability within the UK.
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
The home of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and the voice of adult social care. The site contains the whole range of policy initiatives, press releases and consultation responses that constitute so much of the daily activity of the Association's members, and is regularly updated.
Association of Directors of Children's Services
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services Ltd (ADCS) is the national leadership association in England for statutory directors of children’s services and their senior management teams.
Autism Europe
Autism-Europe aisbl is an international association whose main objective is to advance the rights of persons with autism and their families and to help them improve their quality of life. Autism-Europe ensures effective liaison among more than 80 member associations of parents of persons with autism in 30 European countries, including 20 Member States of the European Union, governments and European and international institutions. Autism-Europe plays a key role in raising public awareness, and in influencing the European decision-makers on all issues relating to autism, including the promotion of the rights of people with autism and other disabilities involving complex dependency needs. To maximise our impact on EU policies, Autism-Europe works in strategic coalitions with organisations that share the same concerns and goals. These include the European Disability Forum (EDF), the Platform of European Social NGOs and the European Coalition for Community Living (ECCL). Autism Europe is a founder member of these organisations and currently holds the vice presidency of EDF.
Barnado's
We run over 800 UK projects that transform the lives of more than 190,000 children and young people every year. Our work includes: fostering and adoption services and support helping children break free from sexual exploitation supporting young carers helping children living in poverty.
Better Health
While there has been progress in the equalities agenda over the last decade, there is evidence to suggest that inequalities persist in access to and the provision of health services. The Better Health briefing papers explore these inequalities, providing evidence and signposting practitioners towards good practice in health services.
BOND - Better Outcomes New Delivery
The Government’s new Mental Health Strategy emphasises the crucial importance of early intervention in emerging emotional and mental health problems for children and young people. Early intervention has been shown to achieve improved outcomes for children, families and wider society such as increased learning and educational attainment, better physical health, improved long-term mental health and reduced health and social care costs. Finding appropriate help when experiencing emotional distress or mental health problems can be very confusing and intimidating. Voluntary and community organisations (VCSOs) have an important role to play in providing effective, high quality early intervention services as they are local, flexible, trusted, informal and friendly. To provide a vital resource for schools, local authorities and the NHS and as part of the Government’s policy on local determination of priorities, a strengthened voice for service users and the increased role of the VCS, the Department of Education is supporting a two-year sector-led programme which will build the capacity of VCSOs to deliver early intervention mental health support to children and young people called BOND – Better Outcomes, New Delivery. BOND will support the standard and range of early intervention delivery and the purchasing/commissioning processes. This will expand choice and provision of timely and efficient mental health services for children and young people throughout the sector.
Brain Injury Social Work Group
The Brain Injury Social Work Group (BISWG) is a group for social work professionals and affiliates aiming to raise the standards of social work practice and other relevant specialist services in supporting people with a brain injury, their families and carers.
British Association for Adoption & Fostering
We are the UK’s leading adoption and fostering membership association, which promotes the highest standards of practice in adoption, fostering and childcare services in social work, health, legal and other professional bodies on behalf of children separated from their birth families.
British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
BAAF work with everyone involved with adoption and fostering across the UK. Our regional and country offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, provide services to meet the needs of some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
CAMHS
CAMHS means Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. We are part of the National Health Service (NHS) and work with others in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich to support and help young people and their families. In CAMHS we specialise in providing help and treatment for children and young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.
