Care & Childcare
Association of Play Industries (API)
Two useful reports "Provision of rubber and loose fill impact absorbing surfaces" and "The API guide to outdoor play area installation."
Children England
Formerly the National Council of Voluntary Childcare Organisations, an umbrella organisation whose members are registered charities working with children, young people and their families.
Children Webmag
A monthly online journal, to inform those who work with children and young people, to encourage sharing of ideas and develope new approaches and working methods
Children's Workforce Development Council
An advisory body sponsored by the DCSF, providing advice and guidance for all those working or wanting to work with children, young people and their families.
CYFERnet
Children, Youth and Families Education and Research network. A huge internet resource with lots of practical information and ideas.
Department for Education and Skills
A very large and reliable Government website with huge amounts of information about childcare issues. Some of the many subjects covered are: adoption, child protection, statistics, family law, teenage pregnancy. A really useful feature of the site are the abstracts from, and details of recent Government publications associated with childcare.
Every Child Matters
The official website of the Department for Children, Schools and Families Every Child Matters programme. Also provides information on the Sure Start programme.
National Curriculum
This site links every National Curriculum programme of study requirement to high-quality, relevant teaching resources. Hundreds of great websites are included, and rated on their usefulness by teachers themselves.
National Health Service
The NHS Gateway with facilities to search thousands of pages of health-related information. Includes a useful health encyclopedia, a self-help guide and an excellent “best treatments page.”
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Provides information and advice on all types of blindness and eye conditions
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
This site offers various information resources about all types of deafness and hearing difficulties.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Various information sheets on play safety and impact-absorbing surfaces for playgrounds.
Schools Health Education Unit
Each month you can access, at no-cost, 3 unique resources
showing Internet links to health related behaviour research
about young people (5-11)(11-16)(16+) yrs. old.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
An online source of good practice guidance, research and learning materials for social care and social work
Text Relay (formerly Type Talk)
Information about BT and RNID's telephone service for deaf and hearing impaired users.
U.K. National Statistics
The official U.K. statistics site drawn exclusively from government sources.
Yourable
Information, products and services for disabled people. Also has news, discussions, features, travel, penpals and jobs.