Support Organisations: A to Z

We've put together an alphabetical list of support organisations, many of which we hope you will never need to use but in case you do...

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• Ear Anomalies: CHARGE
  Charity No 1042953, established in 1987. It offers support and advice to families of affected children and linking where possible.
  
• Eating Disorders Association
  Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders. Helpline 01603 621 414 (9am-6:30pm weekdays) Youthline 01603 765 050 (4-6pm weekdays)
  
• Eating Disorders: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Eating Disorders: Samaritans
  Confidential emotional support to anyone who is suicidal or despairing. Call 08457 90 90 90 (UK) or 1850 60 90 90 (Eire).
  
• Eating Disorders: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Eating Disorders: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
  
• Ecology: Tidy Britain Group
  Tidy Britain Group is an independent UK national charity aiming to improve the quality of local environments.
  
• Ecology: Women's Environmental Network
  The Women's Environmental Network is a charity which works to educate, inform and empower women who care about the environment.
  
• Ecstacy: Drugscope
  The UK's leading centre of expertise on drugs, aiming to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk.
  
• Ecstacy: European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK)
  The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK) is an independent charity, which aims to help ensure that people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol get timely access to the treatment they need.
  
• Ecstacy: Trashed
  Drug information: about, origins, effects, the law, composition, emergency and risks (NHS Promotion site).
  
• Eczema: National Eczema Society
  Charity No 1009671 Telephone advice and information together with support through a national network of regional telephone contacts.
  
• Education Otherwise
  UK-based membership organisation providing support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school.
  
• Education: Advisory Centre for Education
  News and information for parents, school governors and teachers. Freephone advice line for parents: 0808 800 5793 (2pm- 5pm Mon-Fri)
  
• Education: After 16 : what's new?
  Aimed at teenagers and young people in the UK who have an impairment or disability and are wondering what opportunities and services there should be when they leave school.
  
• Education: AHEAD
  Independent voluntary organisation working to promote improved access for persons with disabilities to 3rd Level Education in Ireland.
  
• Education: AQA
  The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance.
  
• Education: Basic Skills Agency
  Agency for basic skills in England and Wales, supported and funded by the Government.
  
• Education: British Dyslexia Association
  Charity No 289243. Advice, information and help. Working to raise awareness and understanding of dyslexia.
  
• Education: City & Guilds
  City & Guilds is the leading provider of vocational qualifications in the United Kingdom.
  
• Education: Comhairle Nan Sgoiltean Araich (Gaelic Pre-School Council)
  Charity No SCO01092 Gaelic-pre-school programme.
  
• Education: DfES A-Level Guidelines
  Guidance for parents and students on the new advanced level qualifications that includes information on choosing a course, workload and examinations.
  
• Education: DfES Childcare Link
  This site provides details of local childcare providers in England and Scotland as well as general information about childcare.
  
• Education: DfES Choosing A School
  Arrangements for admissions are similar across the whole country, but they can differ quite a lot in some important points, including when and how you must apply for a school place.
  
• Education: DfES Dads & Sons
  Aims to encourage Dads to get involved in their sons education.
  
• Education: DfES Don't Suffer In Silence
  Packed with new ideas, practical techniques and the valuable experiences of those who have been bullied, or have even bullied others.
  
• Education: Dfes Early Years
  Information on establishing and developing early years and childcare services & their implementation at local level by Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.
  
• Education: DfES Higher Education
  Aims to provide information on a wide range of topics that students intending to enter higher education, their parents and advisers, will find useful in making effective decisions.
  
• Education: DfES Learning & Skills
  Covers key providers such as further education and sixth form colleges, schools with sixth forms, local authority and adult education institutions and private and voluntary sector providers.
  
• Education: DfES Need A Nanny?
  Employing a nanny is an important responsibility. Guidance and help is at hand.
  
• Education: DfES Parents' Centre
  This site tells you about your child's education and how you can help.
  
• Education: DfES Parents Online
  Lots of information and ideas to accompany the Parents Online internet initiative.
  
• Education: DfES Performance Tables
  Find out the facts about your local schools.
  
• Education: DfES Qualifications Info
  Information for parents, teachers, pupils, lecturers, students, employers and anyone with an interest in qualifications.
  
• Education: DfES Reading
  A little reading goes a long way - helping with your children's reading.
  
• Education: DfES Reading & Writing
  This website sets out some of the main things we know about how children learn to read and write & describes ways that reading and writing are taught in schools.
  
• Education: DfES School Governors
  Information and discussion board for school governors.
  
• Education: DfES Special Educational Needs
  Aims to provide a wide range of advice and materials for teachers, parents and others interested in or working with children with special educational needs.
  
• Education: DfES Standards Site
  Suggestions on how to achieve effective partnership with parents and how best to manage and use your home-school agreement.
  
• Education: DfES Student Support
  Information about the help that is available to students in England and Wales who want to go into Higher Education.
  
• Education: Independent Schools Information Service
  Official site for the 1,300 UK schools accredited by the Independent Schools Council.
  
• Education: Learn Direct
  Promoting lifelong learning.
  
• Education: National Association for the Education of Sick Children
  Working to improve educational opportunity across the UK for all children whose education is disrupted by illness.
  
• Education: National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations
  Largest organisation of parent teacher associations in England and Wales
  
• Education: National Curriculum Online
  The Government's definitive curriculum site for teachers - but handy for parents too.
  
• Education: National Grid for Learning
  Bringing together a vast and growing collection of sites that support education and lifelong learning.
  
• Education: OFSTED
  Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), officially the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England.
  
• Education: Parents Information Network
  Independent service for parents who want to know more about the educational benefits of computers and the Internet.
  
• Education: Parents Online
  Website designed to help parents through their children's primary school years.
  
• Education: Wired for Health
  Government health information website, primarily for teachers but full of useful info.
  
• Education:Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
  Maintaining and developing school curriculum and associated assessments, and accrediting and monitoring qualifications in schools, colleges and at work.
  
• Elderly: Alzheimer's Society
  Charity No 296645 The UK's leading care and research charity for people with all forms of dementia and their carers.
  
• Emergency Contraception: British Pregnancy Advisory Service
  Reproductive choice charity.
  
• Emergency Contraception: Family Planning Association
  Working to improve the sexual health and reproductive rights of all people throughout the UK.
  
• Emergency Contraception: Marie Stopes International
  Marie Stopes’ mission is to ensure the right of all people to have children by choice not chance, by providing reproductive healthcare worldwide.
  
• Emergency Contraception: Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre
  Free, confidential and non-judgemental help and support. Helpline 0208 239 1122 Mon-Friday 12-2.30pm & 7-9.30pm Weekends/ public holidays 2.30-5pm.
  
• Emotional Trauma: Child & Family Trust Scotland
  Charity No SCO11849 Scottish based charity treating children who have suffered severe emotional trauma.
  
• Emotional Well-being: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Emotional Well-being: Rethink
  Charity No 271028 Formerly known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
  
• Emotional Well-being: Samaritans
  Confidential emotional support to anyone who is suicidal or despairing. Call 08457 90 90 90 (UK) or 1850 60 90 90 (Eire).
  
• Emotional Well-being: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Emotional Well-being: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
  
• Employment: After 16 : what's new?
  Aimed at teenagers and young people in the UK who have an impairment or disability and are wondering what opportunities and services there should be when they leave school.
  
• Encephalitis Support Group
  Charity No 1047266 Improving the quality of life of all people affected directly and indirectly by encephalitis.
  
• Endocrine Disorders: Turner Syndrome Support Society (UK)
  Charity No 1080507 Previously under the auspices of the Child Growth Foundation (CGF).
  
• Environment: Friends of the Earth
  One of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK.
  
• Environment: Greenpeace
  Environmental organisation with campaigns ranging from promoting solutions, to direct actions, political lobbying and scientific research.
  
• Epidermal Naevus: Birthmark Support Group
  Charity No 1090952 Birthmark Support Groups offers help and information on vascular birthmarks.
  
• Epidermal Naevus: Changing Faces
  Charity No 1011222 established in 1992. It provides information, support and advice to anyone with a disfigurement and their family.
  
• Epilepsy: British Epilepsy Association
  Information and support for people with epilepsy.
  
• Epilepsy: David Lewis Centre For Epilepsy
  Charity No 1000392 Multi-disciplinary teams providing assessment and treatment for severe epilepsy and related conditions.
  
• Epilepsy: Epilepsy Action
  Charity No 234343 founded in 1950. It offers a nationwide network of branches.
  
• Epilepsy: Epilepsy Action Scotland
  Charity No 311877 Epilepsy Resource Centre, St Piers School for children up to 16 and a Further Education Centre with residential or day places.
  
• Epilepsy: National Society for Epilepsy
  Charity No 206186 Nursing care, medical and paramedical facilities for treatment and care of people with epilepsy.
  
• Epinephrine: Anaphylaxis Campaign
  Information and advice on anaphylaxis and life-threatening allergies.
  
• Epinephrine: Asthma and Allergy Information and Research
  Charity aiming to further education and research in asthma and allergic diseases, and to provide support for patients in certain areas.
  
• Epinephrine: British Allergy Foundation
  Charity No 1003726 Information, advice and support for people with allergies, details of NHS allergy clinics and specialists.
  
• Equinovarus: STEPS
  Charity No 327662 Support for any condition that can affect walking ability such as clubfoot, or congenital dislocation and developmental dysplasia of the hip.
  
• Erb's Palsy Group
  Charity No 1036423 Erb's Palsy is mainly caused by birth trauma resulting in paralysis of the nerves supplying the arm.
  
• Exclusion: Advisory Centre for Education
  News and information for parents, school governors and teachers. Freephone advice line for parents: 0808 800 5793 (2pm- 5pm Mon-Fri)
  
• Exomphalos: GEEPS
  Gastroschisis, Exomphalos, and Extrophies: support for parents.
  
• Expectant Parents: APEC
  Charity No 1013557 Action On Pre-Eclampsia
  
• Expectant Parents: ARC (Antenatal Results and Choices)
  Charity No 299770, founded as SATFA (Support Around Termination for Fetal Abnormality) and renamed as ARC in November 1998.
  
• Expectant Parents: CARE for Life
  Care for Life offers advice and counselling to women facing a crisis pregnancy or following abortion.
  
• Expectant Parents: Pre-Eclampsia Society (PETS)
  Charity No 326206 The society offers support and information to expectant parents.
  
• Extrophies: GEEPS
  Gastroschisis, Exomphalos, and Extrophies: support for parents.
  
• Eye Cancer: Retinoblastoma Society
  Charity No 327493 A national charity offering support and information to people with retinoblastoma (eye cancer) and their families.
  
• Eye Problems: Albinism Fellowship
  Charity No SC009443 Offers contact with other people with an interest in Albinism.
  
• Eye Problems: International Glaucoma Association
  Charity No 274681 Children's support group 'Tadpoles' (details on request).
  
• Eye Problems: Royal National Institute for the Blind
  Practical support and advice to anyone with a sight problem.
  
• Eye Problems: Uveitis Information Group
  Charity No SC028439 Uvetis (term given to a number of rare eye conditions) is a Scottish charity which offers support by telephone, post or e-mail.

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