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Become Charity

Online: https://becomecharity.org.uk/get-support/care-advice-line/

Care Advice Line?

Our Care Advice Line is a friendly helpline for children in care and care leavers. You can call or email us to get help, support, advice, guidance – or just to get in touch with someone to listen to you. Our Care Advice team are here to help you with what you need and treat you in the way you deserve to be treated – with respect and understanding.

We will listen to you, and you will have control of what you want to talk about and how you want to talk about it.

Open Monday-Friday,10am to 5pm

Phone: 0800 023 2033
WhatsApp: 0786 003 4982

NYAS

Online: https://www.nyas.net/contact-us/ 

Advocacy Support

If you need someone independent to talk to, feel like you’re not getting the right support or you don't think your voice is being listened to then you have the right to ask for an independent advocate. They can help you to share how you're feeling, and allow you to communicate this to people who can help you make a change.

If you would like an independent advocate please call our national freephone helpline on 0808 808 1001 (Monday to Friday 9am to 8pm) or email help@nyas.net.

If you are a child or young person looking for help, advice or information you can:

Phone: 0808 808 1001
Email: help@nyas.net

Rees Foundation

https://www.reesfoundation.org/contact-us.html

Care leavers contact for support: 0330 094 5645
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm excluding UK bank holidays

Rees Foundation - Useful links for care leavers

Tiny Happy People

Is a guide to help parents know their child and to learn about each milestone of their child’s life this website also has activities for parents to do with their children.

Online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people

Young Parents Advice

The information on this page is aimed at any young parent who:
Is a care leaver who has (or should have) a pathway plan & personal adviser and is also the parent of a child involved with children’s services.

Online: https://www.frg.org.uk/ypa/need-help-or-advice/care-leavers 

House Project

Who are we?

The National House Project (NHP) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), established in August 2018. It provides the knowledge, resources and support to establish and maintain Local House Projects (LHPs) and believes that joining a LHP should be an option for all young people leaving care.

How do we help young people leaving care?

Young people experience leaving care together and this peer community supports them to develop the practical and emotional skills that they need to live interdependently. They work on houses which become their homes to live in for as long as they want.

Advice Now

Advice now are running a free online housing rights course for organisations across England which support care leavers in securing their housing rights. The programme will be delivered online and is funded by the Britford Bridge Trust.

Online: https://www.advicenow.org.uk/ 

Refugee and Migrant Centre

Getting help

If you need help, you can attend one of RMC’s three centres where our open drop-in service runs on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings between 9am-1pm.

Regular appointments are booked on a first-come, first-served basis but emergencies are prioritised.

Alternatively, service users can contact our new Regional Telephone Service (NOT AN ADVICE LINE) number on 0800 0663 444 for an update on existing enquiry/s.

Online: https://rmcentre.org.uk/get-help/ 

Immigration – Employment – English Classes – Health – Housing & Destitution – Welfare & Benefits – Citizenship – Resettlement

Black Country Childrens child and mental health services for children and adolescents

Online: https://www.blackcountrychildrens.nhs.uk/camhs/help-for-my-child/support-services-directory

This website contains a whole list of services for the black country.

The Care Leavers Association

Online: https://www.careleavers.com/links/ 

Here is another directory of services for care leavers.