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Useful Links
National Organisation
 

 

Useful Website Address’s

Carers Assessments,
Northamptonshire County Council, Community Services

www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

Carers and Disabled Children’s Act 2000’

Full document can be viewed

www.carers.gov.uk

Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI)

01604 887620

NHS Direct

0845 4647
 www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

National Organisations:  
Age Concern www.ageconcern.org.uk
Al-Anon www.hexnet.co.uk/alanon
Alzheimer’s Society www.alzheimers.org.uk
Arthritis Care www.arthritiscare.org
Autistic Society (National) www.autism.org.uk
Breast Cancer Care www.breastcancercare.org.uk
Cancer Information www.cancerimprovement.nhs.uk

Carers UK

www.carersuk.org
Caring Matters www.caringmatters.dial.pipex.com
Cerebral Palsy Helpline www.scope.org.uk
Changing Places website www.changing-places.org.uk
Childcare Link www.childcarelink.gov.uk

Childline

www.childline.org.uk
Children’s Society – Young Carers www.childrenssociety.org.uk
Chill 4 Us www.chill4us.com

Contact a Family

www.cafamily.org.uk
Different Strokes (Young Stroke Survivors) www.differentstrokes.co.uk

Disabled Parents Network

www.disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk
Employers for Carers www.employersforcarers.org.uk
Epilepsy Action www.epilepsy.org.uk

Family Fund Trust

www.familyfundtrust.org.uk

Fragile X Society

www.fragilex.org.uk
Home Start www.home-start.org.uk
Inland Revenue www.claimyourtaxback.com
Kiloran Trust www.kilorantrust.org.uk
Learning for Living www.learning-for-living.co.uk
ME Association www.meassociation.org.uk
(Association of Young People with ME) www.ayme.org.uk
Mental Health Care www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk
Mental Health Foundation www.mentalhealth.org.uk 
MENCAP www.mencap.org.uk
Mental Health Recovery www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
National AIDS Trust – families & Carers project www.nat.org.uk
National Association for the relief of Pagets Disease www.paget.org.uk
National Institute for Mental Health - England www.csip.org.uk.
National Association of Widows www.nawidows.org.uk
National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) www.ndcs.org.uk
National Mind www.mind.org.uk

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

www.nspcc.org.uk
Nursing Homes Fees Agency www.nhfa.co.uk
Parkinson's Disease Society www.parkinsons.org.uk
Partners in Care, Royal College of Psychiatrists

www.rcpsych.ac.uk
Pituitary Foundation www.pituitary.org.uk

Princess Royal Trust for Carers

www.carers.org
Rethink, severe mental illness charity www.rethink.org/carers
Royal National Institute for the Deaf www.rnid.org.uk
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Families Association (SSAFA) www.ssafa.org.uk
Stroke Association www.stroke.org.uk
Survivors of Bereavement by suicide www.uk-sobs.org.uk
Survivors UK www.survivorsuk.org
Terrence Higgins Trust www.tht.org.uk
Tuberous Sclerosis Association www.tsalliance.org
UK Carers - Home Page http://ukcarers.org.uk
UK Carers - message board http://carersmessageboard.com
Working Families www.workingfamilies.org.uk
Young Carers site, Princess Royal Trust for Carers

www.youngcarers.net