Useful Sites
Here you will find links to organisations and websites concerned with disability from across the world. Use our search facility to search by pre-defined topic, or by your own key words. If you would like your website linked, get in touch with us know by clicking on ‘contact us’.
We make every effort to keep our links relevant, comprehensive and up to date. If any one is not working, please advise us. If you have a web site to suggest to add to our links, please contact us.
Please note that none of these links carry any support or endorsement from Paradigm. We leave the judgement up to you about the value and relevance of them.
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Skills for Care
Working in consultation with carers, employers and service users, Skills for Care aims to modernise adult social care in England, by ensuring qualifications and standards continually adapt to meet the...
01 April 2008
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Skills for health
Skills for Health is the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the UK health sector. We help the whole sector develop solutions that deliver a skilled and flexible UK workforce in order to improve health an...
01 April 2008
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Social Capital and Civil Society
A paper exploring the idea of social capital
01 June 2006
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Social Care Institute for Excellence
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom.
01 April 2008
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Social Exclusion of Older People: Future trends and policies
This short report accompanies the Social Exclusion of Older People: Evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
01 July 2006
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Social Exclusion Unit
The Prime Minister set up the Social Exclusion Unit in 1997. Since then the Unit has led innovative thinking in addressing some of society's most difficult problems.
01 April 2008
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Social Firms UK
Link to website
28 May 2008
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Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG
Link to website
28 May 2008
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Social Services Research Group
We are an independent network of individuals who provide a range of research information, planning and evaluation in social care and health services. SSRG members are drawn from a wide range of profes...
01 April 2008
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Somerset HCA - Learning Disability Care Homes
All Homes Caring for Autism Ltd care homes are run with an activity based philosophy to give our service users a fulfilling and enjoyable lifestyle.
01 April 2008