Social Care Information

This area of our website gives links to agencies who can offer a wide range of social care information and financial help and advice.

This includes help with financial matters, such as pensions and benefits, and agencies able to offer support and advice to people who are unemployed, sick or disabled, bringing up a family, retired, a carer, on low wages, or finding it difficult to manage.

Age Concern (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Practical help, advice and services for older people including benefits and pension information.

Child Poverty Action Group
The leading charity campaigning for the abolition of child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low-income families and children.

Child Rights Information Network
Empowering the global child rights community through the exchange of information and the promotion of children's rights.

Citizens Advice Bureau
Offers free, confidential, impartial and independent help and advice on a wide range of subjects including debt, benefits, housing, legal, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer and other problems.

Consumer Rights - Direct Gov
Clear, practical consumer advice.

Direct Gov - benefits in retirement
Information about planning for retirement, pensions, financial support and concessions.

Direct Gov - Carers Allowance
An introduction to the main social security benefit for carers.

Direct Gov - Money, Tax and Benefits
Public services all in one place. Money, tax, benefits and much more.

Disability Alliance
National registered charity which works to relieve the poverty and improve the living standards of disabled people.

Entitlement Checker - from turn2us
Are you missing out on the financial help that is available to you through welfare benefits? This is a simple Benefits Checker to work out how much you could claim.

Leicestershire County Council - Social Care & Health
Leics County Council has a duty to protect people from harm, neglect or abuse, and  provides care and support for people during a crisis, because of their age, ill health or disability, or because they are caring for others.

Rightsnet
Provides access to the most up-to-date welfare benefit and tax credit information on the web.

Tax Credits
Information about Tax Credits for disabled people, people with children and people of working age.

turn2us
Helping people access the money available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other help.

Unbiased
Your portal for finding local, professional advice.