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Social Care, Children & Health

Welcome to Redbridge Adult Social Services and Children's Trust page. 

We aim to deliver:

• high quality care services for adults and children living in Redbridge.
• provide care, support and assistance to a wide range of people who live across the borough.

 

Adults and Older People

We provide care and support to enable you to live as independently as possible in your home and/or community.

• Community Care – services and support for adults and carers who need social services
• The Learning Disability Partnership - services and support for people with a learning disability and their carers in the London Borough of Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

Safeguarding Adults

• If you are concerned that someone you know may be being abused or you yourself are being abused, click here to find out what you can do.

Transforming Adult Social Care

Adult Social Care is transforming the way services are provided to adults who receive social care support. From April 2011 anybody over the age of 18 will have genuine choice and control over the services they receive and how they are provided.

• visit Transforming Social Care for more information 

 

Children and Families

We provide services directly as well as bring together information, advice and guidance about local and national services available to support parents as they bring up their children.

• children and young people care and support
• Families Information Direct
• fostering and adoption
• ContactPoint. 

As well as providing services directly we also bring together information, advice and guidance about local and national services available to support parents as they bring up their children through our Families Information Direct service.

Safeguarding Children

• The Redbridge Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) is a key statutory partnership, which is responsible for ensuring that organisations/agencies within Redbridge co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in Redbridge and to ensure the effectiveness of this work. 

Child Protection

• If you have concerns about a child's welfare or suspect that a child is being neglected or abused, find out what you can do here.

 

Health

• NHS Choices - find your local GPs, dentists, pharmacies and more
• NHS Direct - health advice online or by telephone
• NHS Redbridge – responsible for commissioning and providing primary health care services to residents in Redbridge
• North East London Foundation Trust, NELFT - provides NHS mental and physical health services.
• Outer North East London Community Services, (ONEL)  - provides healthcare for the communities of Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest.
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment - in partnership with the local community, identifies priorities for action that will improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Redbridge.

 

Useful links

• Local Involvement Networks (LINk) (PDF38kb) - a network of networks consisting of local community and voluntary sector organisations and individuals who have an interest in health and/or social care.
• Social Care TV - broadband channel launched by Social Care Institute for excellence (SCIE) with the support of the Department of Health, featuring films and links on current social care issues in adult and children care services.