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Health and social care

We aim to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community and to support the most vulnerable.

Are you worried about the safety or welfare of a child or an adult?

If you think someone may be in immediate danger, call 999. Otherwise:

  • Adult social care

    Find the best services for your care needs

  • Children's social care

    Information for children, young people and families

  • Health services

    Services to help you keep healthy or manage a current health condition

  • Carers

    Do you care for someone who is physically or mentally ill or disabled?

  • Our approach

    Information on how we will work with people who may need social care and support and their carers

  • Preparing for adulthood

    Transition support to adult services for young people aged 17+

Events

Free Building Resilience and Well-Being Talk Free

Complementary Health Centre – Lee 
24 September 5.45PM to 6.45PM

Free Building Resilience and Well-Being Talk

Carers Coffee Morning  Free

Carers Lewisham, Waldram Place, Forest Hill, SE23 2LB 
25 September 10.30AM to 12.30PM

Would you like to get out of the house and meet other carers in similar situations to your own?

Age Exchange day care (dementia) Free

Conrad Court (Deptford) 
27 September 11am to 3pm

Dementia Day Care for people with dementia and their carers. Age Exchange is a national centre for Reminiscence Arts and dementia intervention, aiming to reduce isolation in older people.

Carers Coffee Morning  Free

Carers Lewisham, Waldram Place, Forest Hill, SE23 2LB 
2 October 10.30AM to 12.30PM

Would you like to get out of the house and meet other carers in similar situations to your own?

Health lecture: Obesity – Changing the shape of Lewisham Free

Lewisham Library 
2 October 7pm to 8pm

Lewisham is becoming more and more obese, but who is really to blame and how do we stop them? Join us as public health strategist Gwenda Scott talks us through the innovative work this borough is doing to shed the pounds.

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