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 UK (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
CRIN is a global children's rights network, pressing for rights - not charity - and a shift in how governments and societies view children.

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.

Coalville Foodbank
Providing emergency food and support to local people in crisis.

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

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

Gov.uk
The place to find government services and information. Money, tax, benefits and much more.

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

Entitledto online benefit checker
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 - First Contact
Enables agencies to work together to refer people for the help they need in a co-ordinated way.

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.

Leicestershire Welfare Provision
Responsible for Community Care Grants and crisis loans for general living expenses (previously covered by the DWP Social Fund)

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

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.

Vouchedfor
Helps people to find, rate and review Independent Financial Advisors (IFA).

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