Access to Advice
Advocacy
SDPP - Surrey Disabled Peoples Partnership
Funded by Surrey County Council to provide Advocacy Services to all disabled people and older persons in Surrey.
SCIE - Social Care Institute for excellence
Find an IMCA, A list of independent mental capacity advocate (IMCA) providers for local authorities across England and Wales can be found:
Carers
Surrey County Council – Information for Carers
Guidance for carers, on health, legal or money matters and carer breaks and useful links:
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/care-and-support-for-adults/looking-after-someone
Action for Carers Surrey
Enabling carers to have a voice and realise a life outside caring : https://carers.org/partner/action-carers-surrey
East Surrey Carers Association
Free confidential and independent advice and information to support Carers:
Family Voice Surrey
Speaking up for families of children and young people with additional needs in Surrey:
Citizens Advice Surrey
Oxted:
Caterham and Warlingham:
Reigate and Banstead:
Mole Valley:
Health
Easy Health
Provides online health advice on Easy Read:
NHS
Information in easy read for people with a learning disability or on the autism spectrum:
Corona Virus
At the moment Surrey County Council is not planning on issuing its own Surrey guidance as everything is changing so quickly that it would be difficult to ensure everything is kept up to date. However Surrey County Council have been sending the Surrey Care Association the links to national guidance to share with you, they are as follows:
Guidance for social and community care settings:
Guidance on self-isolation:
Guidance for employers and businesses on providing advice to staff:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19
Guidance on infection prevention and control:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control
Guidance covering decontamination and cleaning of environments in the community:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-decontamination-in-non-healthcare-settings
Benefits
In Control
A national charity working for an inclusive society where everyone has the support they need to live a good life and make a valued contribution: www.in-control.org.uk/#
Benefits and Work
Free information on getting the benefits you are entitled to:
Law and Rights
Mental Capacity Act / Liberty Protection Safeguards
In July 2018, the government published a Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which passed into law in May 2019. It replaces the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) with a scheme known as the Liberty Protection Safeguards (although the term is not used in the Bill itself). Visit the links below to learn more:
Care Act 2014
This factsheet describes how the Care Act and supporting guidance place a series of new duties and responsibilities on local authorities about care and support for adults:
