Carers Information Service: 0191 490 0121
Did You Know - There are as many as 51,000 young carers (under 16 years) caring for a relative or friend
Click here to download our carers information pack. - The pack is in PDF format and will take less than 3 minutes to download on a standard connection.
Links to useful sites
There are many good websites available on the Internet, unfortunately there is not enough room here to list them all. We have tried to list the main sites, most of these will be able to link you to other relevant or local sites.
Benefits
Citizens Advice Bureau - www.citizensadvicebureau.org.uk
Department for Work and Pensions - www.dwp.org.uk
Direct Payments - www.doh.gov.uk/directp.htm
Independent Living Fund - www.ilf.org.uk
Pension Service - www.pensionservice.gov.uk
Carers
Sites
Carers UK Site - www.carersonline.org.uk
Gateshead Crossroads - www.gatesheadcrossroads.org.uk
Government carers site - www.carers.gov.uk
Princess Royal Trust for Carers - www.carers.org
Children
Contact a Family - www.cafamily.org.uk
Family Fund Trust - www.familyfundtrust.org.uk
Employment
Department for Trade and Industry - www.dti.org.uk
Parents at Work - www.parentsatwork.org.uk
General
Gateshead Council - www.gateshead.gov.uk
Gateshead NHS Trust - www.gateshealth.nhs.uk
Gateshead Primary Care Trust - www.gatesheadpct.nhs.uk
Learning
Disability
BILD - British Institute of Learning Disability - www.bild.org.uk
MENCAP - www.mencap.org.uk
Mental
Health
Alzheimer's Society - www.alzheimers.org.uk
Mental Health Foundation - www.mentalhealth.org.uk
MIND - www.mind.org.uk
Rethink - formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship - www.rethink.org
Older
People
Age Concern - www.ace.org.uk
Help the Aged - www.helptheaged.org.uk
Physical
Disability
Disability Living Foundation - www.dlf.org.uk
Leonard Cheshire - www.leonard-cheshire.org
RADAR - Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation - www.radar.org.uk
Sensory
Impairment
RNIB - Royal National Institute for the Blind - www.rnib.org.uk
RNID - Royal National Institute for the Deaf - www.rnid.org.uk
SENSE - Deafblind - www.sense.org.uk