Local and national advice and support services

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

The CQC website has information on how they inspect and regulate different care services. You can also look at the inspection report of the organisation you are interested in hiring

Information and advice services

The following national organisations provided information and advice through their websites and helplines:

Welfare benefits

Find out what support you might be able to get to help with your living costs on the benefits you may be entitled to page.

Carers UK

We've teamed up with Carers UK to give carers access to a wide range of digital tools and essential resources that may help make your caring situation easier. Further details can be found on our Digital resources from Carers UK page.

Community directory

Search our community directory to find local and national:

information, advice and support services
social care services
health and wellbeing services
social groups and leisure activities

Advocacy services

If you need extra help understanding how the social care system works or telling others what you want and you don’t have anyone else who can help you, an advocate will help you. Find further details about how an advocacy service can help.