Useful Links Directory

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Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Live as independently as possible within your community and access the different choices to support you when you need it most.

Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

My Care, My Choice is the name of the Royal Borough's new approach to social care. This approach is also known as 'self-directed support' and is about people being able to choose and manage the support they need to live their everyday lives in as fulfilling a way as possible.

Royal College of Nursing

The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is responsible for training and examining paediatricians in the UK. The College has over 13,500 members in the UK and abroad and sets standards for professional and postgraduate medical education.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

A detailed report 'Our Invisible Addicts'. London: RCP

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

Safeguarding Children Research Initiative

The Safeguarding Children Research Initiative is a programme of research studies on child abuse and neglect jointly funded by the Department of Health and the Department for Education. The studies were commissioned as part of the government response to the inquiry following the death of Victoria Climbié. The purpose is to provide a stronger evidence base for the development of policy and practice to improve the protection of children in England.

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.

SCIE

SCIE has a list of publications on substance use & mental health issues

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.

Secure Accomodation Network

The Secure Accommodation Network represents and promotes the work of Secure Children's Homes in England and Wales

Sefton Council

Health and Social Care

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.

Sheffield City Council

Help and support for adults of all ages, carers, children and families.