Charities: Useful Links
The leading UK care and research charity for people with this disease and other dementias, their families and carers. It provides a network of support for families professionals and people living with dementia.
ARC (Association for Real Change) is a membership organisation, which supports providers of services to people with a learning disability. Theyprovide a range of services such as high quality information, networking opportunities, training and publications, and CRB checks.
BackCare is a national charity that aims to reduce the impact of back pain on society by providing information, support, promoting good practice and funding research. BackCare acts as a hub between patients, (healthcare) professionals, employers, policy makers, researchers and all others with an interest in back pain.
BILD is the British Institute of Learning Disabilities. They work to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and family carers. To do this their work focuses on human rights, positive behaviour support, developing the workforce that provides support, and working for greater community involvement.
Disabled Living Foundation
DLF is a national charity that provides impartial advice, information and training on daily living aids. It is a founder member of the
Information Standard, a certification scheme for health and social care information
In Control is a national charity. Their mission is to create a fairer society where everyone needing additional support has the right, responsibility and freedom to control that support.
Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers.Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything they do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers.
Giving Us a Voice is a project carried out by ARC, BILD and Mencap.It has written a national Charter for Inclusion for people with learning disabilities and their families from ethnic minority communities.
