Useful Links
We hope these website links will be useful to you. Just click on the website address and you will be taken to that web page.
If you have any website addresses that you think other parents might find useful please e-mail them to us and we will add them to the list. Thank you.
- Law Links
- Education Links
- Benefits Links
- Fun/Leisure Links
- Housing Links
- Sport Links
- Social Links
- Travel/Transportation Links
- Local Links
- Information/Support Links
- Grant Provider Links
Law Links
Citizens Advice Bureau
The Citizens Advice Bureau Service offers free, confidential, impartial and independent advice.
www.citizensadvice.org.uk (nationwide)
The Disability Law Service
Free legal advice and help to disabled people and their families on a low income.
Tel:020 7791 9800
The Disability Rights Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission)
An independent body, which was set up to eliminate discrimination against disabled people and promote equality of opportunity.
Education Links
Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities.
Skill is a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Aiming to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up in
Mill Green School
Local school for children with additional needs with post 16 provision.
www.millgreen.st-helens.sch.uk
Lansbury School
Local school for children with additional needs.
www.lansburybridge.st-helens.sch.uk
Benefits Links
Disability Benefits
Online info about disability benefits and charities (not a government site)
Disability Living Allowance
www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DG_10011731
Disbility Benefits
www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10026.html
Fun/Leisure
OUCH!
The BBC disability page full of fun, games, quizzes and columns written by people with disabilities.
Disability Now
A leading disability magazine (can be bought in hard copy - look on site for details)
disABILITY Information and Resources
Loads of links to all sorts of useful information
Housing Links
Housing Options
An independent advice and information service for people with learning disabilities.
Tel 0845 456 1497
Accessible Property
Provides a register of accessible homes in the UK
www.accessible-property.org.uk
Sports Links
British Blind Sport
The co-ordinating body of sport for the blind and partially sighted in the UK/
CP Sport England and Wales
Providing a wide range of sporting opportunities for people with Cerebral Palsy.
Access4Fitness
Website service designed to help more disabled people access fitness centres.
English Federation of Disability Sport
Aims to expand sporting opportunities for disabled people and actively increase the number of disabled people involved in Sport.
Social Links
Disability Info
Providing access guides to goods and services and have been specially designed to answer the everyday questions of disabled people.
Dial UK
Is a network of over 140 local disability information and advice service run by and disabled people.
Enham
Exists to give disabled people the opportunities to make real choices in life.
Youreable
Useful website full of information, products and services for Disabled People.
Fledglings
A not for profit organisation which helps parents and carers of a child with special needs of any kind to find simple affordable solutions to practical problems.
Travel/Transportation Links
Can You Stay
An online database of accessible holiday accommodation in the UK where users submit their reports reviews of places they have stayed.
Motability
A national UK charity, which helps disabled people and their families to become mobile.
Tel 01279 635666
Shopmobility
Is a scheme which lends manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs and powered scooters to members of the public with limited mobility to shop and to visit leisure facilities.
Local Links
Local Authority Website
Information on Local Services
Home-Start
Supporting families in local communities. Helping parents build better lives for their children.
Information/Support Links
Contact a Family
For families with disabled children providing advice, information and support.
Every Child Matters
Change for children in a new approach to the well being of children and young people from birth to 19.
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/information/
Working Families
Helping to give a voice to working families.
Young Carers
Supportive on-line community of young carers
Carers UK
Carers UK is the voice of carers. Carers provide unpaid care by looking after an ill, frail or disabled family member, friend or partner.
Association of Young People with M.E.
Dedicated to giving help, friendship, support and vital contact to children and young people with Myalgic Encephalopathy (M.E)
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH)
Promotes positive attitudes and provides support and advice for people with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. (England, Wales and N. Ireland)
Brittle Bone Society
Its aims are to promote research into the brittle bones diseases and provide practical support, advice and encouragement to sufferers and their relatives.
British Deaf Association
The UKs largest national organisation run by Deaf people, for Deaf people.
www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk
Changing Faces
Primary focus is on disfigurements affecting the face, but they do help with other disfigursements.
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Aims to ensure that people with CF receive the best possible care and support in all aspects of their lives.
Epilepsy Action Campaign
To improve epilepsy services and raise awareness and offer assistance to people in a number of ways.
RNID
Aims to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people.
RADAR
Aims to remove barriers-the architectural, environmental, economic and social barriers-that restrict disabled people´s daily lives.
International European Disability Forum
A European umbrella organisation representing more than 37 million disabled people. Its mission is to ensure disabled citizens´ full access to fundamental and human rights.
Barnardo´s
Charity supporting children and young people with disabilities
Scope
Disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with Cerebral Palsy
Mencap
Leading learning disability charity working with people with learning disability and their families and carers
Oaasis
Information and help with Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Cerebra
For brain injured children and young people providing information, research information, grants, a very useful DLA guide and much more.
Every Disabled Child Matters
Together for Disabled Children
www.togetherfdc.org/default.aspx
Aiming High for Disabled Children
www.everychildmatters.gov.UK/socialcare/ahdc/
Grant Provider Links
Family Fund
Provides timely grants to families with severely disabled or seriously ill children.
Whizz-Kidz
A charity providing customized mobility equipment, training and advice.
Cerebra
For brain injured children and young people providing information, research information, grants, a very useful DLA guide and much more.
