Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Rape Crisis
Rape Crisis (England and Wales) is a registered charity and the national umbrella organisation for Rape Crisis Centres across the country. We support the work of local centres and aim to develop new centres in areas where there are no or few specialist services. Rape Crisis (England and Wales) campaign continuously to raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual violence and, in particular, we highlight the importance and need for appropriate, high-quality and specialised support.
Refuge
Refuge opened the world’s first safe house for women and children escaping domestic violence in Chiswick, West London, in 1971. Women and children flocked to our doors because, for the first time, someone was saying it was wrong to beat your partner. Back then, domestic violence was seen as a “private matter”, to be dealt with “behind closed doors”. Society turned a blind eye. Since 1971, Refuge has led the campaign against domestic violence. We have grown to become the country’s largest single provider of specialist domestic violence services. On any given day we support over 2,000 women and children. What we believe Refuge is committed to a world where domestic violence is not tolerated and where women and children can live in safety. We aim to empower women and children to rebuild their lives, free from violence and fear. We provide a range of life-saving and life-saving services, and a voice for the voiceless.
Refugee Childrens Consortium
The Refugee Children's Consortium (RCC) is a group of NGOs working collaboratively to ensure that the rights and needs of refugee children are promoted, respected and met in accordance with the relevant domestic, regional and international standards.
Regional Voices for better health
Regional Voices champions the work of voluntary and community organisations to improve health, well-being and care across England. We are a partnership of nine regional networks. Together, we connect to over 25,000 voluntary and community organisations across England. Our coverage is broad, deep and well-established. We are a voluntary sector strategic partner of the Department of Health and work with the Local Government Association and other partners, supporting voluntary and community organisations to understand changes within the NHS and support organisations to influence these changes, in order to achieve better outcomes.
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) is the independent health and social care regulatory body for Northern Ireland, and forms an integral part of the new health and social care structures. In its work RQIA encourages continuous improvement in the quality of these services through a programme of inspections and reviews.
Renfrewshire Council
Social Care and Health
Research in Practice
Our mission is to build the capacity for evidence-informed practice in children’s services. We support our network of Partners to move forward together, fostering a lasting culture shift in using evidence-informed practice to improve the lives of children, young people and families.
Resettlement Service Finder
Resettlement Service Finder is a FREE online directory of resettlement services in England and Wales. It lists over 10,000 housing, education, substance misuse and other services, which are constantly updated. It aims to help ex-offenders, youth offenders, people at risk of offending, vulnerable people and the agencies that work with them. Advice covers a range of resettlement issues including housing, education, training, employment and budgeting.
Respectme
respectme works with all adults who have a role to play in the lives of children and young people, to give them the practical skills and confidence to deal with bullying behaviour.
Respond
We aim to make a real difference to people with learning disabilities by providing effective and flexible support to help them to improve their lives. Respond works with children and adults with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma, as well as those who have abused others, through psychotherapy, advocacy, campaigning and other support. Respond also aims to prevent abuse by providing training, consultancy and research.
ResPublica
ResPublica is an independent, non-partisan UK think tank founded by Phillip Blond in November 2009. In July 2011, the ResPublica Trust was established as a not-for-profit entity which oversees all of ResPublica's domestic work. We focus on developing practical solutions to enduring socio-economic and cultural problems of our time, such as poverty, asset inequality, family and social breakdown, and environmental degradation. Our research combines a radical, civic philosophy with the latest insights in social and economic policy analysis to produce original, implementable solutions. We would like to foster new approaches to economic inequality, investment and group behaviour, so that the benefits of capital, trade and entrepreneurship are open to all. Our work is based on the premise that human relationships should once more be the centre and meaning of an associative society, and that we need to recover the language and practice of the common good. Consequently our ideas seek to strengthen the links between local individuals, organisations and communities that create social capital.
Rethink
This charity provides a fact sheet on ‘dual diagnosis’ with clear information and resource/contact list
Rethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness is a national charity for everyone affected by mental illness, their families, carers and friends. We challenge attitudes, we change the law, we change lives. We have groups, services and members across England. What we offer is a little bit different.
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
Health and Social Care
Rights of Women
Rights of Women have produced a number of information sheets on legal issues affecting women. You can download them here, free of charge. The information contained on this page is not legal advice. If you have a legal problem, you should talk to a lawyer or advisor before deciding what to do. The information given here is written for people resident in or affected by the laws of England and Wales.
Rights4me
This is the website of the Children's Rights Director for England (CRD) – Roger Morgan. With his team Roger spends lots of time listening to what children and young people who live away from home have to say about how they are looked after.
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.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Health and Social Care
