Other sources of information

24-hour freephone for children and young people who need advice.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is responsible for improving the focus on all aspects of policy affecting children and young people, as part of the Government’s aim to deliver educational excellence.

Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19.

A 24-hour advice line for health matters (for the cost of a local phone call).

24-hour freephone service for adults, children or young people for advice or to give details about a child who may be at risk.

A freephone advice line for parents.

Research in practice is the largest children and families research implementation project in England and Wales.

24-hour confidential emotional support (for the cost of a local phone call).

SCIE's aim is to improve the experience of people who use social care by developing and promoting knowledge about good practice in the sector. Using knowledge gathered from diverse sources and a broad range of people and organisations, they develop resources supporting those working in social care and empowering service users.

A virtual warehouse of social care information, this also offers free access to major social care databases.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation are one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK, spending about £7 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of overcoming them.

The King's Fund is an independent charitable foundation working for better health, especially in London.

A good source of child-health information and has useful links.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

TCRU is a multidisciplinary research unit within the Institute of Education and a designated research unit of the Department of Health.