Page content section :
Disability
: Carers and support groups
- West Sussex County Council services
- Carers Liaison Project
- Carers' Line
- West Sussex Carers Emergency Alert Card Scheme
- RADAR key scheme
- Other useful links
West Sussex County Council (WSCC) services
- WSCC : Social Services - Carers section (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7784)
- WSCC
: People with disabilities including :
- Adults with disabilities or learning difficulties
- Children with disabilities and special needs
- Disabled blue badge scheme (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7769)
West Sussex County Council (WSCC) Sitting Service
Caring for a child or young person with a disability is demanding and, at times, exhausting. Carers need a break from caring to recharge their batteries in all sorts of different ways. Finding someone who can take care of their child or children under these circumstances can be a major problem.
The WSCC Sitting Service provides volunteer carers for families with children with disabilities which allows parents to take a much-needed break from caring.
- More information is available on the WSCC sitting service webpage (www.westsussex.gov.uk/living/social_care/people_with_disabilities/children_with_disabilities_and/sitting_service.aspx)
Carers Support Service Worthing & District
(was previously the Carers
Liasion Project)
This service provides information and advice support services for carers in the district. This includes support group meetings, information about practical help in the home, taking a break, carer support groups, claiming benefits etc.
For full contact details and more information see their website:
Carers' Line
This service provides a confidential information and support service for people helping a relative, partner or friend with an illness or disability to manage at home.
- Tel : (01273) 441241.
Open :
• Monday and Friday, 10:00am - 1:00pm
• Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 2:00pm - 5:00pm.
West Sussex Carers Emergency Alert Card Scheme
Do you worry about what would happen to the person you look after if you were taken ill and unable to tell anyone that someone depends on you?
The West Sussex Carers emergency alert card scheme can give you an emergency card that shows someone depends on you.
For more information please use the following link :
RADAR key scheme
For more information about RADAR keys please see our public toilets page.
Other useful links :
On our website :
- Care and Repair service
- Children / Childcare
- Counselling
- Disabled parking : Blue Badges, on street parking and requests for disabled parking bays
- Help Point - Information
- Life events : Being a carer
- RADAR key scheme : For more information about RADAR keys please see our public toilets page.
- Social services
- Supporting people
- Sports Directory
- Adur DC's Equalities Policy
and Three Year Equalities Scheme
- For caring services vacancies : see the job
vacancies section
- The Adur District Council website also contains many other pages that
may be of interest or use to those who are carers, these
are listed in the related sections on this website.
On external websites (listed alphabetically) :
- Accessible Countryside (www.accessiblecountryside.org.uk)
- Action on Hearing Loss (previously the RNID) (www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk)
- Adur Special Needs Project (www.adurspecialneedsproject.com) : The Adur Special Needs Project (ASP) is a local registered charity committed to providing out-of-school respite and recreational activities for young people with special needs aged from five years.
- AIDIS Trust (www.aidis.org) helps Disabled People know how to maintain and adapt their computer. Their telephone helpline gives straightforward, non techie advice on computers and adaptations - see their website for details.
- Alzheimer's Society (www.alzheimers.org.uk)
- AMAZE (www.amazebrighton.org.uk): Gives information, advice and support to parents of children with special needs in Brighton & Hove, but their website has a wealth of useful information and links useful to all parents and carers everywhere)
- Arthritis Care (www.arthritiscare.org.uk)
- Autism :
- Sussex Autistic Society (www.sussexautisticsociety.org)
- National Autistic
Society (www.nas.org.uk)
- British Complementary Medicine Association (www.bcma.co.uk)
- British Institute of Learning Disability (BILD) (www.bild.org.uk)
- Cancer : MacMillan Cancer Support (www.macmillan.org.uk)
- Cancer : CLIC Sargent - Caring for Children and Young People with Cancer (www.clicsargent.org.uk)
- Carers Direct : NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk/carersdirect/Pages/CarersDirectHome.aspx)
- Carers UK - Directgov : Caring for someone (www.direct.gov.uk/en/CaringForSomeone)
- Contact a
Family (for parent carers) (www.cafamily.org.uk)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to look up benefits or local benefits agencies etc. (www.dwp.gov.uk)
- Department of Transport - Access for disabled people (www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/access/)
- Diabetes UK (www.diabetes.org.uk)
- Directgov : Caring for someone (www.direct.gov.uk/en/CaringForSomeone)
- Directgov : Disabled people (www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople)
- Directgov : Social services (www.direct.gov.uk/en/Hl1/Help/Socialservices/index.htm)
- Disability Now (www.disabilitynow.org.uk, was www.disability.gov.uk - now moved)
- Disability Rights Commission (now the Equality and Human Right Commission) (www.equalityhumanrights.com)
- Disability Sport Events (www.disabilitysport.org.uk)
- Disabled Living Foundation (www.dlf.org.uk)
- Down’s Heart Group (www.dhg.org.uk) : Parent friendly support and information relating to heart conditions associated with Down's Syndrome.
- Down’s Syndrome Association (www.downs-syndrome.org.uk)
- Dyslexia
Action (previously the Dyslexia Institute) (www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/) :
Dedicated to successful learning for Dyslexic people. There may be charges
for some services.
- Epilepsy:
- Epilepsy Action (www.epilepsy.org.uk)
- Epilepsy Society (www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/Homepage)
- Equality
and Human Right Commission (previously the Disability Rights Commission) (www.equalityhumanrights.com)
- FAST (Foundation for Assistive Technology) (www.fastuk.org) : brings innovative products to market and improves services for disabled and older people.
- Focus
on Disability (www.focusondisability.org.uk)
- ICIS - Carers section (www.icis-info4life.org.uk/ICISonline/)
- Impact Initiatives (www.impact-initiatives.org.uk)
- Independent
Living Association (West Sussex) (www.ilawestsussex.org)
- Joseph Rowntree
Foundation (www.jrf.org.uk)
- Mencap (www.mencap.org.uk) see also Mencap Local Groups (www.mencap.org.uk/node/3832)
- Motability (www.motability.co.uk)
- Motor Neurone Disease Association (www.mndassociation.org)
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (www.mssociety.org.uk)
- Multiple Sclerosis - Sussex Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Centre (www.mssussex.com)
- Muscular
Dystrophy Campaign (www.muscular-dystrophy.org)
- National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) (www.ncil.org.uk)
- National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (www.nice.org.uk)
- Parkinson's Disease Society (www.parkinsons.org.uk)
- Polio : British Polio Fellowship (www.britishpolio.org.uk)
- Princess Royal
Trust for Carers (www.carers.org)
- RADAR - The Disability Rights People (www.radar.org.uk)
- RNIB : The Royal National Institute of Blind People (www.rnib.org.uk)
- RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf People) - now called Action on Hearing Loss (www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk)
- Skill : National bureau for students with disabilities (www.skill.org.uk)
- Special needs cycling (search set up on Google) (www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=special+needs+cycling&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB)
- Stammering : British Stammering Association (www.stammering.org)
- Stroke Association (www.stroke.org.uk)
- Telecare
- clear practical advice on daily living equipment (www.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/telecare/)
- Wellspring West Sussex - information for parents and carers (www.wellspringwestsussex.org.uk)
- WSCC
: People with disabilities including :
- Adults with disabilities or learning difficulties
- Children with disabilities and special needs
- Disabled blue badge scheme (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7769) - WSCC : Social care and health webpages (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7699)
