Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Falkirk Council
Social Work services provide a wide range of important services for individuals, families and communities, in order to protect and support the most vulnerable people within the Falkirk area. We also provide support for those who are caring for relatives or friends at home.
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.
Fife Council
Social Care and Health
Flintshire County Council
The services delivered by Flintshire County Council contribute significantly to the health and well being of local residents. By maintaining and improving the conditions in which people live, work and spend their leisure time, services also provide opportunities for residents to take responsibility for their own health and that of the people around them.
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.
Foundation Years
An indispensible site to support you as a professional working with children and families in the foundation years. It is a one stop shop for resources, information and the latest news on the foundation years. Developed collaboratively by you, the sector - for the sector. It brings together information from many sources that will help you to support children to develop and flourish
Freedom Charity
The overall aim of Freedom Charity is to raise awareness and prevent child abuse, keeping children safe. We aim to empower young people to feel they have the tools and confidence to support each other and have practical ways in which they can help their best friend around the issues of family relationships which can lead to early and forced marriage and dishonour based violence. We achieve this by placing informative material in schools, running schools programmes and by using social media such as a web site, Facebook, Twitter and apps.
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.
Glasgow City Council
This area of the site provides information on services which aim to: ensure the safety and protection of vulnerable adults, young people and children support individuals and families to maintain independence and to exercise choice about the way they live their lives
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
