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Coronavirus and the Law

Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law in Wales 

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NWG

NWG are committed to the fight against CSE and supporting victims and their families who are subjected to child sexual exploitation.

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The National Information Centre on Children of Offenders

The National Information Centre on Children of Offenders has been established to provide an information service for all professionals who come into contact with the children and families of offenders, as well as academics and those responsible for strategic development and commissioning. The Centre is delivered by Barnardo’s in partnership with Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS).

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Dementia Action Alliance

We are the alliance for organisations across England to connect, share best practice and take action on dementia. Members include leading charities, hospitals, social care providers, Government bodies, pharmaceuticals, royal colleges, and wellbeing organisations. Everything we do is in partnership, and informed by people living with dementia, and their carers.

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Reducing parental conflict hub (Early Intervention Foundation)

Our hub is for local leaders, commissioners, practitioners and researchers who are looking to reduce the impact of parental conflict on children. It provides a central repository of key 'what works' evidence and tools, including why parental conflict matters for children's outcomes, and guidance on how to take action. The hub will continue to grow as new evidence and tools are created.There is strong evidence that conflict between parents – whether together or separated – can have a significant negative impact on children's mental health and long-term life-chances.

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Cerebral Palsy

Learning that your child has cerebral palsy can be devastating news. Yet, by educating yourself, including learning about treatment options and how to help manage the disorder, your child can still live a productive life.

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NSPCC Learning: All the tools, training and resources you need to keep children safe

The NSPCC has launched NSPCC Learning, a new website with the latest child protection and safeguarding news, information and training. The new website brings together information and resources for professionals working in safeguarding and child protection in one central point including: the latest research, child protection statistics, leaflets, practical guidance, briefings and evaluations; and information on key topics including resources to keep children safe in schools and colleges. 

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The Recovery Village

Drug abuse can inflict severe — sometimes permanent — damage on your teen’s mind, body and future. Though drug use may begin casually, your teen may not realize that they risk addiction. If your child is abusing illicit substances, there is hope for recovery through treatment.

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CSE police and prevention

Resources around policing and prevention of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and abuse. Includes toolkits and guidance around issues such as child criminal exploitation in relation to county lines; harmful sexual behaviour; supporting parents and carers; and working with children and young people who have a physical disability.

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SELMA

Online hate speech is a growing problem. People often experience the internet to be a hostile space. Hateful messages are increasingly common on social media. To complement existing initiatives to regulate, monitor or report online hate speech, a more pro-active answer is clearly needed. SELMA (Social and Emotional Learning for Mutual Awareness) is a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission which aims to tackle the problem of online hate speech by promoting mutual awareness, tolerance, and respect.

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Contextual Safeguarding Network

A free network of practitioners across the country interested in developing approaches to safeguarding children and people from extra-familial harm. Includes free resources including videos, blogs, tools, and training for schools, social care, Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCBs) and commissioners.

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Helping Hands: Care and Nursing at Home

We’re assisting adults of all ages to stay in the comfort of their own homes, in the place they love the most. Seeing the extra lease of life this gives to families is the reason we’re so passionate about what we do.   Covering every region of England and Wales, we’ve been the home care provider of choice to thousands for nearly three decades. Our carers go the extra mile for our customers and get to see first-hand the peace of mind that they’re ongoing support provides.

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Birmingham City Council Children

We work with partners across Birmingham to offer a range of support to children and families in need.

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Aberlour Child Care Trust

Aberlour is the largest, solely Scottish, children's charity and we provide help to over 6000 of Scotland's most vulnerable children, young people and their families each year.

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Action for Children

Action for Children supports and speaks out for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people, for as long as it takes to make a difference in their lives.

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Age UK

We believe that age needs respect. It needs kindness. Sometimes it needs help. Because there is strength in numbers, Age Concern and Help the Aged have joined forces to become Age UK ‘‘ so that we can be here for everyone in later life.

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Alzheimer's Society

Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Association for Care Training & Assessment Networks

ACTAN strives to promote and develop good practice with regard to the training delivery and assessment of health and social care staff, and those who support children and young people.

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Association for Real Change

ARC's mission is to champion the development of high quality person centred services for everyone with a learning disability within the UK.

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Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)

The home of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and the voice of adult social care. The site contains the whole range of policy initiatives, press releases and consultation responses that constitute so much of the daily activity of the Association's members, and is regularly updated.

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Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS)

The Association of Directors of Children's Services Ltd (ADCS) is the national leadership association in England for statutory directors of children's services and their senior management teams.

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Australian Association of Social Workers

The Australian Association of Social Workers is the professional representative body of Social Workers in Australia, with 6,000 members nation-wide.

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Brain Injury Social Work Group

The Brain Injury Social Work Group (BISWG) is a group for social work professionals and affiliates aiming to raise the standards of social work practice and other relevant specialist services in supporting people with a brain injury, their families and carers.

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CACHE

CACHE designs courses and qualifications in the care and education of children and young people. We are the UK's only specialist Awarding Organisation to do this. Our courses range from entry level to advanced qualifications for sector professionals. You can take them in schools, colleges and training centres throughout the UK.

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Care Council for Wales

The Care Council for Wales is the social care workforce regulator in Wales and we're responsible for promoting and securing high standards across the social services and social care workforce.

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Care Quality Commission

We regulate care provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies and voluntary organisations. We aim to make sure better care is provided for everyone - in hospitals, care homes and people's own homes. We also seek to protect the interests of people whose rights are restricted under the Mental Health Act

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Carers UK

Carers UK is a charity set up to help the millions of people who care for family or friends.

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Care Skillsbase

Care Skillsbase is a website offering free, practical resources to help social care employers in England to address communication and number skills issues in the care workforce.

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SSSC

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is the regulator for the social service workforce in Scotland. Our work means the people of Scotland can count on social services being provided by a trusted, skilled and confident workforce. We protect the public by registering social service workers, setting standards for their practice, conduct, training and education and by supporting their professional development. Where people fall below the standards of practice and conduct we can investigate and take action.

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nidirect

nidirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland citizens. nidirect aims to make it easier to access government information and services. It does this by working closely with Northern Ireland departments and other public bodies to collate key information based on users' needs. Examples of subjects nidirect can help you with include: booking your driving test finding a job finding local health services, for example doctor, dentist or optician

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Careers Wales - Social Care & Health

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd (CCDG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Government which was formed on 1 April 2013. Trading as Gyrfa Cymru Careers Wales, we provide the all age, independent and impartial careers information, advice and guidance service for Wales.

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Catch 22

Catch22 is a local charity with a national reach. We work with young people and others who find themselves in seemingly impossible situations.

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Centre for Crime & Justice Studies

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is an independent public interest charity whose mission is to inspire enduring change by promoting understanding of social harm, the centrality of social justice and the limits of criminal justice.

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Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services C4EO

C4EO aims to help those working in children's services improve the life chances of all children and young people, in particular those who are most vulnerable.

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Centre for Policy on Ageing

The Centre for Policy on Ageing, established in 1947 by the Nuffield Foundation, has a long and distinguished record as an independent charity promoting the interests of older people through research, policy analysis and the dissemination of information.

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Centre for Research on Children and Families

The Centre for Research on the Child and Family, founded in 1996, is in the forefront of research on vulnerable children, parenting and family change.

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CHAIN

CHAIN is a successful online mutual support network of more than 10,000 people working in health and social care. The Network originated 14 years ago in the NHS Research & Development programme in England. It is multi-professional and cross organisational, and is designed to connect like-minded health and social care practitioners, educators, researchers and managers.

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Children 1st

We deliver services around the country in homes and communities that help children and families every day; we speak out for children's rights by influencing legislation and campaigning to change attitudes towards children and we share our expertise with others, both professionals and volunteers who work with children and families through our training and consultancy services.

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Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Services

Cafcass looks after the interests of children involved in family proceedings. We work with children and their families, and then advise the courts on what we consider to be in the best interests of individual children.

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Children England

Children England is the leading membership organisation supporting charities, community and not-for-profit organisations that provide services for children, young people or families.

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Children in Wales

Children in Wales is the national umbrella organisation for those working with children and young people in Wales.

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Children's Commissioner

The role of the Children's Commissioner was created by the Children Act 2004 and is there to promote the views of children and young people from birth to 18 (up to 21 for young people in care or with learning difficulties).

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Children's Commissioner for Wales

The Children's Commissioner for Wales works to make sure that children and young people are kept safe and that they know about and can access their rights.

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Childrens' Society

We are committed to helping vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, including safeguarding children in care and young runaways. We give a voice to disabled children, help young refugees to rebuild their lives and provide relief for young carers.

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True Vision

Have you or someone you know been a victim of a hate crime or hate incident? Hate crimes and incidents come in many different forms. It can be because of hatred on the grounds of your race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or disability. Hate crime in any form is wrong. That is why it is important that if hate crime happens to you or someone you know, that you report it. True Vision is here to give you information about hate crime or incidents and how to report it.

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Community Care

The Community Care website is dedicated to all areas of the social care profession.

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Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland

Its mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland, so that they can maximise the impact they have on meeting social need.

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Criminal Justice Social Work - Scotland

The Centre is an independent national resource providing a range of services to those working in, or concerned about, criminal and youth justice social work

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Department for Education

The Department for Education is responsible for education and children's services.

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Department of Health - Social Care

The Department of Health works to define policy and guidance for delivering a social care system that provides care equally for all, while enabling people to retain their independence, control and dignity.

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Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

It is the Department's mission to improve the health and social well-being of the people of Northern Ireland

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Dignity in Care Network

Launched in November 2006, the Dignity in Care Campaign aims to stimulate a national debate around the need for people receiving care services to be treated with dignity. The aim is to create a care system where there is a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of, and disrespect towards, older people.

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Dimensions

We support people with learning disabilities and people with autism. A not-for-profit organisation, we are a leader in our sector, supporting around 2,500 people and their families in England and Wales.

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Plan

Plan works for children and their communities to help realise children's rights. We work across a range of sectors, including education, health, child protection, child participation, economic security and water and sanitation.

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Time to Change

Mental health problems are common - but nearly nine out of ten people who experience them say they face stigma and discrimination as a result. This can be even worse than the symptoms themselves. Time to Change is England's biggest programme to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination.

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Victoria Climbie Foundation

The Victoria Climbie Foundation was established by Mr and Mrs Climbie (Victoria's parents) to campaign for improvements in child protection policies and practices and to ensure effective links & coordination between statutory agencies, care services and BME communities.

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CEOP Child Explotation and Online Protection Centre

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. That means we are part of UK policing and very much about tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership with local and international forces.

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Internet Watch Foundation

We are the UK Hotline for reporting criminal online content -child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world, Criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK and Non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.

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Action on Elder Abuse

Action on Elder Abuse (AEA) works to protect, and prevent the abuse of, vulnerable older adults. We were the first charity to address these problems and are the only charity in the UK and in Ireland working exclusively on the issue today.

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Parents Protect

Welcome to Parents Protect, your information and resources website. Here, we aim to raise your awareness about child sexual abuse, answer any questions you may have and give you the information you need to help to protect children.

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