Other organisations N-Z

Myddleton House
115-123 Pentoville Road
London
N1 9LZ
Tel: 020 7833 2181
Fax: 020 7833 4371
Website: www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Promote quality registered childminding so that children, families and communities can benefit from the best in childcare and education.

NCMA
Royal Court
81 Tweedy Road
Bromley
Kent
BR1 1TG
Tel: 0800 169 4486
Email: info@ncma.org.uk
Web: www.ncma.org.uk

Promotes the interest and well being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives. We advocate the participation of children and young people in all matters affecting them. We challenge disadvantage in childhood.

National Children’s Bureau
8 Wakley Street
London
EC1V 7QE
Tel: 020 7843 6000
Fax: 020 7278 9512
Web: www.ncb.org.uk

The National Council for One-Parent Families is a leader in policy development and a centre of expertise on issues affecting one-parent families. They aim to help create better lives for the 1.7 million lone parents living in Britain. They also offer free information and advice to lone parents on their free helpline.

National Council for One-Parent Families
255 Kentish Town Road
London
NW5 2LX
Tel: 020 7428 5400 (general); 0800 018 5026 (helpline)
Fax: 020 7482 4851
Email: info@oneparentfamilies.org.uk
Web: www.oneparentfamilies.org.uk

Specialises in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. In addition to 24 hour helpline, NSPCC runs campaigns, provides child protection training and advice, carries out research into the nature and effect of child abuse and produces information leaflets.

42 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3NH
Tel: 0808 800 5000
Text: 0800 056 0566
Email: help@nspcc.org.uk
Web: www.nspcc.org.uk

Registers social care workers, regulates education and training and issues codes of practice for those involved in social care work.

7th Floor
Millennium House
19-25 Great Victoria Street
Belfast
BT2 7AQ
Tel: 02890 239 340
Fax: 02890 417 601
Email: info@nosocialcarecouncil.org.uk
Web: www.niscc.info

Advice and information for lone parents in Scotland on a wide range of issues.

13 Grayfield Square
Edinburgh
EH1 3NX
Tel: 0131 556 3899 (general); 0808 801 0323 (helpline)
Text: 0800 018 5026
Fax: 0131 557 7899
Email: info@opfs.org.uk
Web: www.opfs.org.uk

ParentLine Scotland is a free, confidential helpline for parents and carers offering them the opportunity to talk through worries and concerns, however large or small; from bullying, the effects of marital difficulties, being a lone parent, problems with teenagers and having to deal with unmanageable behaviour; to physical and sexual abuse. Lines are staffed, by carefully selected and trained volunteers.

Children 1st
83 Whitehouse Loan
Edinburgh
EH9 1AT
Tel: 0808 800 2222
Web: www.children1st.org.uk

Parentline Plus is a national charity to provide support to anyone in a parenting role. We offer help and information via a range of services including our free confidential helpline, workshops and courses, information leaflets, a website and a number of innovative services designed to help families in need.

520 Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
Kentish Road
London
N5 1TL
Tel: 0800 800 2222
Text: 0800 783 6783
Web: www.parentlineplus.org.uk

The Parent Pages online directory is a publication updated daily, packed with information, news and events sourced from the council, voluntary and commercial sectors.

P.O Box 123,
West Wickham
Kent
BR4 0YD
Tel: 020 8325 2250
Fax: 020 8325 2261
Web: www.parentpages.co.uk

Parley is a support and information website which has been created for new parents, in particular parents with a child who has to undergo surgery and those children with long/short term medical conditions or impairments/disabilities.  

Web: www.parleyonline.co.uk 

Telephone support for people who have been abused by professional workers, such as GPs or counsellors. Advocacy-taking complaints about professionals forward to regulatory bodies.

Witness
32-36 Loman Street
London
SE1 0EH
Tel: 08454 500 300
Fax: 020 7622 9788
Email: info@professionalboundaries.org.uk
Web: www.popan.org.uk

A centre providing outdoor mobility information, demonstration, assessment and training for disabled and elderly people.

Queen Elizabeth's Foundation
Leatherhead Court
Woodlands Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 0BN
Tel: 01372 841 100
Fax: 01372 844 657
Email: info@gef.org.uk
Web: www.qefd.org

Respond provides a range of services to people with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma and to those who have gone on to perpetrate abuse. Respond specialises in working with sexual abuse. We also run a project for parents with learning disabilities and a national helpline. We offer training and support to professionals and carers.

Third Floor
24-32 Stephenson Way
London
NW1 2HD
Tel: 0808 808 0700 Mon-Fri: 1.30-5pm helpline; 0207 383 0700 General enquiries
Fax: 020 7387 1222
Email: admin@respond.org.uk
Web: www.respond.org.uk

Provides a highly specialised environment for the assessment of children and young adults with complex communication needs, including autism and deafness.

Royal Schools for the Deaf Manchester
Stanley Road
Cheadle Hulme
Cheshire
SK8 6RQ
Tel: 0161 610 0138
Text: 0161 610 0100
Fax: 0161 610 0101
Email: rycroft@rsdmanchester.org
Web: www.rsdmanchester.org/rycroftassessment

Offers advice and information on all aspects of Scottish law as it relates to the rights of children and young people. Telephone information on child law, education, health, social work, divorce etc.

54 East Crosscauseway
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH8 9HD
Tel: 0131 667 6333
Fax: 0131 662 1713
Email: enquiries@sclc.co.uk
Web: www.sclc.org.uk

The Scottish Social Services Council is the regulatory body for the Scottish social services workforce with responsibility for registration, education and training and workforce development.

Compass House
Discovery Quay
11 Riverside Drive
Dundee
DD1 4NY
Tel: 01382 207 101
Fax: 01382 207 215
Email: enquiries@sssc.uk.com
Web: www.sssc.uk.com

Shared Care Network is the umbrella organisation for approximately 450 services in England, Wales and N Ireland that links families with disabled children or young people to host families willing to offer occasional care. Shared Care Network aims to promote family based short term care by providing an information service, lobbying to promote appropriate services, organising conferences and training events, encouraging good practice and promoting the rights of carers and their families. Shared Care Network publishes a directory of family-based short-term care services in the UK.

63-66 Easton Business Centre
Felix Road
Bristol
BS5 0HE
Tel: 0117 941 5361
Text: 0117 941 5364
Fax: 0117 941 5362
Email: shared-care@bristol.ac.uk
Web: www.sharedcarenetwork.org.uk

Sibs is for people who grow up with a brother or sister with special needs, disability, chronic illness. This group of people are often referred to as ‘siblings’. There are at least 2 million of these siblings in the UK. Many siblings need support and information at different stages of their lives.

Sibs
Meadowfield
Oxenhope
West Yorkshire
BD22 9JD
Tel: 01535 645453
Email: info@sibs.org.uk
Web: www.sibs.org.uk

Recruitment agency that provides nannies, carers and childcare workers only for children who have special needs. Nationwide service.

91-93 Great Eastern Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 3HZ
Tel: 020 7729 2200
Fax: 020 7729 0022
Email: info@snapchildcare.co.uk
Web: www.snapchildcare.co.uk

The Ann Craft Trust is a UK based organisation working with staff in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors to protect people with learning disabilities who may be at risk from abuse.

Centre for Social Work
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 9515400
Fax: 0115 9515232
Email: ann-craft-trust@nottingham.ac.uk
Web: www.anncrafttrust.org

Provide information and support networks for families of twins, triplets and more. Offer a range of publications and telephone helpline for parents called 'Twinline'.

2 The Willows
Gardner Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 4PG
Tel: 0870 770 3305
Fax: 0870 770 3303
Email: enquiries@tamba.org.uk
Web: www.tamba.org.uk

A website developed by the parents of two girls with CHARGE Syndrome who wish to share information and advice about CHARGE Syndrome and deaf-blindness.

Web: www.twochargekids.com

Innovative Educational Resources that help Youth Workers, Teachers and Trainers bring out the potential of every young person.
Top Floor Waterloo House
Waterloo Lane
Yeovil
Somerset
BA20 1TF
Tel: 0870 6094634
Email: info@voiceit.com
Web: www.voiceit.com

A support and information group for adults and children with learning disabilities who have experienced crime or abuse and their families and carers. It also works for changes in the law and practice.

Voice UK
Rooms 100-106
Kelvin House
RTC Business Centre
London Road
Derby
DE24 8UP
Tel: 01332 291 042 (general); 0845 122 8695 (helpline)
Fax: 01332 207 567
Email: voice@voiceuk.org.uk
Web: www.voiceuk.org.uk

A new parent-toddler support group for pre-schoolers with hearing impairment.

It will be held at NEWPIN, Luton Street NW8 8RL once a fortnight on Tuesday mornings on 27th April, 11th May, 25th May, 8th June, 22nd June and 6th July 2010.  It will resume in September 2010 when new dates will be announced.

The NEWPIN premises are ideal as they offer a safe, spacious environment with excellent resources, free of charge for you and your child.

Contact Carol Wade or Cori Josias on 020 7641 1655/7619.