Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Our role is to investigate complaints that individuals have been treated unfairly or have received poor service from government departments and other public organisations and the NHS in England. We work to put things right where we can and to share lessons learned to improve public services. We are a free service open to everyone.
Peace International
We develop work both in the UK and overseas, throughout the African continent. Our main activities are focused on: Children rights Gender issues Human rights Malaria Peace and Reconciliation on Conflicts Community development We strive to promote social justice by voicing concerns of those who are most vulnerable both in the UK and in Africa specifically in DRC. We address a range of issues with the help of our partners and specialist agencies. We also support economic policy, and rally Support for marginalised groups, HIV/ AIDS awareness programmes, promote community initiatives and youth development.
Pembrokeshire County Council
We provide a wide range of social care and support services to meet the individual needs of people in Pembrokeshire, helping them to live as independent and fulfilled lives as possible. We have a legal duty to protect people, including children and young people from harm, neglect or abuse. People may need social care or support during a crisis, because of their age, long term ill health or disability, or because they are caring for others.
Personal Social Sciences Research Unit
The PSSRU has branches in three UK universities, carrying out independent research aimed at improving the equity and efficiency of social and health care.
Personality Disorder
Personality disorders are increasingly recognised as major mental health issues: but they are as much society’s problem, as the individuals who suffer the symptoms. Use this site to find out more about the different personality disorders, including borderline, antisocial and dangerous and severe, and what the diagnosis means. Also keep up with the latest news about what is happening in the world of PD and how you can get involved.
Perth & Kinross Council
As a Council, we have a responsibility to support, protect and care for people in our community. Across Perth and Kinross we have residents with a wide range of health and social care needs. These include families in crisis, young offenders, elderly people struggling to live independently, or children in need of the care and support of foster carers.
Peterborough City Council Children and Families
We offer lots of services to the children and families who live in Peterborough.
Plymouth City Council
Social Care and Health
Policy Exchange
Policy Exchange is the UK’s leading think tank. As an educational charity our mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy. The authority and credibility of our research is our greatest asset. Our research is independent and evidence-based and we share our ideas with policy makers from all sides of the political spectrum. Our research is strictly empirical and we do not take commissions. This allows us to be completely independent and make workable policy recommendations.
Portsmouth City Council
Welcome to our pages about health and social care in Portsmouth. We are committed to protecting and supporting our most vulnerable residents as well as promoting healthy lifestyles for local people.
Powys County Council
This section of the site deals with the Health and Social Services delivered by Powys County Council; you will also find links to other organisations dealing with health and social care issues relevant to people living in Powys.
Practice Learning Qualifications website
This website includes Learning Objects designed primarily to support the learning of students or candidates undertaking the Practice Learning Qualification (PLQ) or the Practice Learning Qualification (Social Services) (PLQ(SS)), though they can also be used by anyone wishing to increase their understanding of learning in the workplace.
Practice standards for young people with substance problems
Gilvarry et al. 2012
Princess Royal Trust for Carers
For nearly 20 years, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has been fighting to provide carers with the support they so desperately need. The Trust understands that few of us plan to become carers, so when a caring role starts, every carer needs an expert to guide them through the maze of services, rules and entitlements. For a carer, this can make the difference between keeping and losing their job, or between staying healthy and collapsing under the stress.
Psychosis with co-existing substance misuse
Provides some good practice guidance and useful information and links.
Queen's University Belfast
Undegraduate
Race Equality Foundation
We seek to explore what is known about discrimination and disadvantage, and to use this evidence to develop interventions that overcome barriers and promote race equality in health, housing and social care
Railway Chidren
Railway Children fights for children living on the streets Railway Children is an international children's charity. We fight for vulnerable children who live alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation. In the UK, society often denies their existence, and in other countries the problem is so prevalent that it has become ‘normal’. They run away or are forced to leave homes where they suffer poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the streets are often even worse than those they endured at home. Every day we fight to change their story. Railway Children race to reach children as soon as they arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. Our pioneering work enables us to get to street children before the streets get to them.
