Health & Social Care

Our health and social care pages have been developed to bring into one area the full range of information to help those looking to access services regarding health and social care.

Adults and older people services

• Adult Care Services Home Page
• Emergency Planning Team - Information about the team who plan for major disasters

Children and families services

• Children and family social care - General information and advice for families on children's services and links to all children's social care services.
• Counselling - Information on counselling services
• Fostering and adoption - Information on becoming a foster carer and about adopting a child. Also information on looked after children.
• Protection of children - Information about prevention of child abuse. 
• Education welfare service - Information on the roles of the education welfare service, juvenile employment/performance licences, teenage pregnancy.
• Missing children - Information on how to report a missing child.
• Accommodation/public Care - Information on the accommodation of children into public care.
• Child and adolescent mental health problems - Information on services to children with mental health problems.
• Children's Trust - a multi-agency partnership of organisations concerned with the welfare of children and young people.
• Education and Learning - Information about schools, admissions and adult learning.
• Extended Services - Information about extended schools and services.
• Children's Services complaints procedure July 2006 (166kb 55 page pdf)
• Children's Services complaints leaflet and form (420kb 8 page pdf)
• Children's Services comments & compliments leaflet and form (322kb 2 page pdf)
• ContactPoint - a quick way for those working with children and young people to find out who else is working with the same child or young person.
• CAF - Common Assessment Framework.

Health services

• Health and medical Care - Information and links to Bury Primary Care Trust , National Health Services web pages regarding illnesses, conditions and infectious diseases.

Services for people with disabilities

• Visual impairment - Information for people with a visual disability. 
• Hearing impairment - Information for people with a hearing disability. 
• Physical disability - Information for people with a physical disability and equipment services. 
• Learning disability - Information for people with a learning disability and their carers.

Carers services

• Services for carers - carers assessments, schemes, strategy's.

Social care contact details

• Social care services contacts page which holds details of contact addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

On-line referrals

• How to make a referral to social care agencies and on line forms.

Policies and plans

• Information and copies of policies and plans regarding social care services.