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Family, young people and children

This is your gateway to Health & Social Care Services in Northern Ireland, containing links to the Acute and Community Services provided by the 5 Health Trusts, General Practitioner Surgeries and Clinics, Health Boards and Agencies and central government healthcare services. There is advice about healthy lifestyles, the latest local, national and international health news and online access to medical databases.

The PSA promotes the health, safety and well-being of users of health and social care services.

Welcome to the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Profiling Tool. It has been developed to support an intelligence driven approach to understanding and meeting need. It collates and analyses a wide range of publically available data on risk, prevalence and detail (including cost data) on those services that support children with, or vulnerable to, mental illness. It provides commissioners, service providers, clinicians, services users and their families with the means to benchmark their area against similar populations and gain intelligence about what works.

SENDirect has worked in partnership with other organisations to bring together and create information that may help to support you and your family. We have divided it up into the sections below for you to browse through. We are working on new information all the time, so if you can't find something you need using the search button (the one next to the login and register buttons at the top of the page) you can contact us to see if it's something we are working on. If you want to write or share useful information with us, again, please let us know.

Established in 1992, the Eating Disorders Association (Northern Ireland) exists to provide support, information and understanding to people with eating disorders as well as their families and friends. EDANI is a charity based in Belfast City Centre that has a national focus, operating services across Northern Ireland. Eating Disorders such as Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder affect an estimated 1.6 million people in the UK with many more suffering in silence.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

The Observatory has been set up to provide better information about the health and health care of people with learning disabilities and people with autism in Scotland. The Observatory will generate and translate information into knowledge, that is designed to inform actions, practice and policy to benefit people with learning disabilities and people with autism.

This website supports practitioners working on making positive post-adoption contact plans and supporting birth relatives and adopters through contact planning for their child. The materials on this website bring together knowledge from research and practice. They draw on research by Professor Beth Neil at University of East Anglia. Research in Practice has worked with Beth and practitioners across England to share expertise and produce accessible and practical resources for professionals involved in this work.

BEAD stands for Bereaved through Alcohol and Drugs. It's a partnership between Cruse Bereavement Care and Adfam, providing practical and emotional support and information specifically for anyone bereaved through a loved one's drug or alcohol use.

There's a person attached to every body, respect both. Healthy relationships are all about respecting each other. You should feel loved, safe and free to be yourself. Relationships can be confusing and it can be difficult to understand what is and isn't normal behaviour.

stem4 is a teenage mental health charity aimed at improving teenage mental health by stemming commonly occurring mental health issues at an early stage. Young people have just as much right to accessing facts about good mental health as they do good physical health, and yet there is a lack of accurate information. Embarrassment or social stigma surrounding mental health issues, can so easily lead to confusion with what may be normal development, as opposed to the early development of a mental health issue.

We are a consortium led from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) in partnership with the National Children's Bureau (NCB), the Anna Freud Centre and the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE). Our aim is to provide evidence for policy and practice for the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. We consider health in its broadest sense, recognising the many agencies and services involved, and that children's health is shaped by their families, communities, local resources and the wider economic and cultural climate.

Whatever happens as we get older, we all want to remain independent and live life on our own terms. That’s why, as well as offering regular friendly contact and a strong campaigning voice, Independent Age can provide you and your family with clear, free and impartial advice on the issues that matter: care and support, money and benefits, health and mobility.   A charity founded over 150 years ago, we’re independent so you can be.

Voluntary Sector Review is published by Policy Press in association with the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN). It publishes accessible, high-quality peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of the voluntary, community, civil society and third sectors. A unique feature of the Voluntary Sector Review is the combination of papers aimed at academic, policy and practice audiences. This is designed to ensure that the results of the latest academic research are made available to the widest possible audience and are grounded in a close engagement with both policy and practical issues.

For 20 years, human services professionals have relied on Health & Social Work for the latest advances in areas such as aging, clinical work, long-term care, oncology, substance abuse, depression, and maternal health. Articles also cover research, policy, specialized services, quality assurance, in-service training, and other topics that affect the delivery of health care services.

Social Science Research publishes papers devoted to quantitative social science research and methodology. The journal features articles that illustrate the use of quantitative methods to empirically test social science theory. The journal emphasizes research concerned with issues or methods that cut across traditional disciplinary lines. Special attention is given to methods that have been used by only one particular social science discipline, but that may have application to a broader range of areas with an ultimate goal of testing social science theory.

Family Law ‘‘ the title of reference and record in the field of family law since 1970 ‘‘ is the leading practitioner journal compiled by experts for family law professionals. The journal features the latest official guidance, in-depth case analysis and topical articles. Contents also include regular columns from the Family Law Bar Association, Resolution, The Law Society and the Association of Her Majesty's District Judges as well as news and research updates, letters and book reviews.