Sources of Support

Bede House Starfish Project
Bede is a local organisation that supports the needs of those in the local community and run four key services: Learning Disabilities, Youth Work, Starfish Domestic Violence and Hate Crime Project and Community Engagement.

Contact a Family Southwark
Contact a Family supports families with disabled children across the UK. Whatever the condition, whenever you need them, wherever you are.

Refuge

Refuge is a UK charity providing specialist support for women and children experiencing domestic violence. It is the largest UK domestic abuse organisation for women.

KIDS
KIDS is a disabled children’s charity that works with children and young people from birth to the age of 25 who are disabled as well as with the individuals who are impacted by this situation (such as families and young carers).

Latin American Women's Rights Service
The Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) is a human rights based organisation which supports the immediate and long term needs of Latin American women migrants in the UK from practical and emotional support, to learning new skills and to improving their own opportunities.

Place2Be
Place2Be provides emotional and therapeutic services in primary and secondary schools, building children's resilience through talking, creative work and play and helping them to cope with wide-ranging and often complex social issues including bullying, bereavement, domestic violence, family breakdown, neglect and trauma.

TAMBA – Twins and Multiple Births Association
The Twins and Multiple Births Association (Tamba) is a charity set up by parents of twins, triplets and higher multiples that directly helps parents and professionals to meet the unique challenges that multiple birth families face.

Southwark Council
The council's job is to deliver lots of very different services to the residents and businesses in our borough. A few examples of the kinds of services they deliver are social care for vulnerable adults, council housing, looking after the borough's parks and green spaces and making sure the borough is clean.

Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They inspect and regulate services which care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages.

NHS
The National Healthcare Service provides a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use for people legally resident in the United Kingdom.

Southwark Family Information Service
The Family Information Service (FIS) provides information on local services available to children, young people and families in Southwark. They can assist with registered childcare, free early education and childcare costs.

Victims Support
Victim Support is an independent charity for victims and witnesses of crime in England and Wales. They deliver local, national and specialist services to help to victims and witnesses of hate crime, antisocial behaviour, sexual violence and domestic violence.

Samaritans
Samaritans is a charity that supports anyone in distress, around the clock by offering counselling and helping people explore their options to make the right decisions.

Family lives
Family Lives is a charity helping parents to deal with the changes that are a constant part of family life. Their role is to support all parents and carers to achieve the best relationship possible with the children that they care about, as well as supporting parenting professionals.