Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
The Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH)
The Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH) is a progressive new charity and membership forum, creating a focus for everyone working in the field of young people’s health across the UK.
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 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) is a multi-disciplinary research centre based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), within the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). Our focus is on exploration of different dimensions of social disadvantage, particularly from longitudinal and neighbourhood perspectives, and examination of the impact of public policy.
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 Foyer Federation
The Foyer Federation's mission is to turn young people's experiences of disadvantage into solutions that support their transition to adult independence. We develop transformational programmes and campaigns that fill gaps in community services and inspire policy and decision makers to make a more effective investment in young people. The direct experience of vulnerable young people and those working with them helps inform our understanding of the barriers facing young people and develop new approaches to overcome them. Our ambition is to become the organisation best known for leadership and excellence in developing services for vulnerable young people as they make the transition from adolescence to independent adulthood.
The Gold Standards Framework (GSF)
The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a systematic evidence based approach to optimising the care for patients nearing the end of life delivered by generalist providers. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the end of life and includes care in the final years of life for people with any end stage illness in any setting. The National GSF Centre CIC is the national training and coordinating centre for all programmes, enabling generalist frontline staff to provide quality care for people nearing the end of life, whatever their illness, wherever the setting. It aims to support best implementation of GSF in all settings, using a common framework and toolkit of resources.
The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC)
The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) is the umbrella charity for all those involved in palliative, end of life and hospice care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We believe that everyone approaching the end of life has the right to the highest quality care and support, wherever they live, and whatever their condition. We work with government, health and social care staff and people with personal experience to improve end of life care for all.
The Peace Alliance
The Peace Alliance is a National Charity working in partnership with local communities and statutory organisations on innovative crime reduction and community cohesion initiatives. Our overarching mission is – to advance the protection and preservation of life through the reduction of crime and the promotion for the public benefit of community safety and crime prevention. What makes us special is – our in-depth knowledge and understanding of issues around underachieving youth having worked extensively with young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), offenders and ex-offenders, youth offending teams, schools, colleges and the Police.
The RSA
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous research institute within the UN system that undertakes multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on the social dimensions of contemporary development issues. Through our work we aim to ensure that social equity, inclusion and justice are central to development thinking, policy and practice
Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey
Understanding Society is a unique and valuable academic study that captures important information every year about the social and economic circumstances and attitudes of people living in 40,000 UK households. It also collects additional health information from around 20,000 of the people who take part. Information from the longitudinal survey is primarily used by academics, researchers and policy makers in their work, but the findings are of interest to a much wider group of people including those working in the third sector, health practitioners, business, the media and the general public.
UNICEF
UNICEF works in the UK to champion children’s rights, win support and raise money for our work with children everywhere. For over 60 years UNICEF has been the world’s leading organisation for children, working to help them survive and thrive from early childhood through adolescence.
Viewpoint
If you provide a service to young people you will want to know what they really think. Viewpoint gives you a direct line to their views and attitudes.
Volunteer Now
Volunteer Now works to promote, enhance and support volunteering across Northern Ireland. Volunteer Now is about connecting with individuals and organisations to build healthy communities and create positive change. Volunteer Now enhances recognition for the contribution volunteers make, provides access to opportunities and encourages people to volunteer. We provide training, information, guidance and support to volunteer-involving organisations on issues of good practice and policy regarding volunteering, volunteer management, child protection, safeguarding vulnerable adults and governance.
