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
- Other useful links
West Sussex County Council (WSCC) services
- WSCC : Social Services - Carers section (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.Article:{id=791531}])
- WSCC : Disabled people (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.Article:{id=971580}])
- WSCC : Children with disabilities or special needs (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ArticleSection:{id=799364}])
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/ccm/content/social-care-and-health/disabled-people/children-with-disabilities-or-special-needs.en?page=4)
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.
- Worthing Carers Liaison Project
Methold House
North Street
Worthing BN11 1DU
Tel : (01903) 528600.
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 :
Other useful links :
On our website :
- Care and Repair service
- Children / Childcare
- Counselling
- 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
- Sussex Disability Sports Database
- 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) :
- Action on Elder Abuse (www.elderabuse.org)
- Adur Special Needs Project (www.adurspecialneedsproject.co.uk) : 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.
- 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)
- Better caring (www.bettercaring.com) (The website to answer your care home questions and help you find the right nursing home or residential home)
- British Complementary Medicine Association (www.bcma.co.uk)
- British Epilepsy Association (www.epilepsy.org.uk)
- British Polio Fellowship (www.britishpolio.org)
- British Stammering
Association (www.stammering.org)
- CancerBACKUP (www.cancerbackup.org.uk)
- Carers UK (www.carersuk.org)
- Carers website (www.carers.gov.uk)
- 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)
- Diabetes UK (www.diabetes.org.uk)
- Directgov : Social services (www.direct.gov.uk/en/Hl1/Help/Socialservices/index.htm)
- 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)
- ICIS
- Carers section (www.icis-info4life.org.uk/ForCarers/index.htm)
- Joseph Rowntree
Foundation (www.jrf.org.uk)
- Mencap (www.mencap.org.uk/)
- Motor Neurone Disease Association (www.mndassociation.org)
- Multiple Sclerosis Society (www.mssociety.org.uk)
- Muscular
Dystrophy Campaign (www.muscular-dystrophy.org)
- National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (www.nice.org.uk)
- Parkinson's Disease Society (www.parkinsons.org.uk)
- Princess Royal
Trust for Carers (www.carers.org)
- RADAR - the disability network (www.radar.org.uk)
- Right Care, Right Deal (www.rightcare.org.uk)
- RNIB (The Royal National Institute of Blind People) (www.rnib.org.uk)
- RNID (The Royal
National Institute for Deaf People) (www.rnid.org.uk)
- Social Care and Health section of the WSCC website (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/social-care-and-health)
- Stroke Association (www.stroke.org.uk)
- Wellspring West Sussex (www.wellspringwestsussex.org.uk) : an independent organisation set up to provide information, dialogue and discussion with and for children and young people with disabilities, and their parents and carers in West Sussex.
