Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Exchange Supplies
A workbook for parents (Free to download).
Exeter City Council
Health and Social Care
Families and Social Services Information Team
Fassit provides a website containing information and advice for families with children experiencing frustration in working with Social Services in Child Protection Proceedings.
Family Action
Family Action has been a leading provider of services to disadvantaged and socially isolated families since its foundation in 1869. We work with over 45,000 children and families a year by providing practical, emotional and financial support through over 100 services based in communities across England. A further 150,000 people benefit from our educational grants and information service. We tackle some of the most complex and difficult issues facing families today – including domestic abuse, mental health problems, learning disabilities and severe financial hardship.
Family and Parenting Institute
The Family and Parenting Institute is an independent charity that exists to make the UK a better place for families and children. We run the Family Friendly scheme. We work with charities, businesses and public services to offer practical help to families. Our research offers insights into family life now and in the future.
Family Lives
Family Lives is a national charity providing help and support in all aspects of family life. We're here for you seven days a week and you can live chat with a trained support worker or share your story on our forums. If you are unable to get through to Live Chat because of demand please feel free to email our team at parentsupport@familylives.org.uk.
Family Rights Group
We are the charity in England and Wales that advises families whose children are involved with or need children’s services because of welfare needs or concerns. We promote policies and practices, including family group conferences, that help children to be raised safely and securely within their families, and campaign for effective support to assist family and friends carers, including grandparents who are raising children that cannot live at home.
FEANTSA
FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless is an umbrella of not-for-profit organisations which participate in or contribute to the fight against homelessness in Europe. It is the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level.
Foster Care Associates
Foster Care Associates (FCA) provides a fostering service to Local Authorities and Trusts across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, providing the highest quality foster care placements for a wide range of children and young people. Our approach to fostering places the child’s needs and local support for our foster carers firmly at the centre of what we do.
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Care and Health
General Social Care Council
The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is the regulator of the social work profession and social work education in England. We protect the public by requiring high standards of education, conduct and practice of all social workers.
Give me strength
Give Me Strength is a national campaign, run by children and families charity 4Children, which demands more help for families to avert crises. Every year 28,000 children go into care in England. Millions more have their chances of success in later life diminished by growing up in families facing serious and multiple challenges with little or no practical help. Yet research shows us that these crises can often be prevented if the right help is available at the right time. Families tell us that this means early help as problems develop and before crisis sets in. The social and economic cost of family crisis is avoidable. This campaign demands that we respond to this call to put an end to wasting money and wasting lives. Family dramas don’t need to become crises.
Global Action on Aging
Towards a Human Rights Convention for Older Persons
Global Extension of Social Security
GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and run by the ILO Social Security Department, provides an international interdisciplinary knowledge sharing environment and technical assistance services for the extension of social security.
Gloucestershire County Council
Find out more about health and social care services that are available in Gloucestershire
Grandparents Plus
Grandparents Plus is the national charity which champions the vital role of grandparents and the wider family in children’s lives - especially when they take on the caring role in difficult family circumstances.
Guardian Social Care
Social Care Media items from the Guardian Newspaper
Hampshire County Council
Social Care and Health
Havering College of Further & Higher Education
Undegraduate
