FACTSHEET No. 31

Rights

This Factsheet gives you a list of other organisations that can be contacted for advice and information in Hackney.

Age Concern
Health: Local Age Concern charities offer a wide range of activities and services. They all offer support through a variety of services, dependent on their size and local need such as information and advice, activities outside the home, emotional and social support at home, personal care.

Helpline: 0800 00 99 66 Tel: 020 7249 7149, Fax: 020 7249 0339 Email: enquiries@ageconcernhackney.org.uk

Scope
A national charity for people with cerebral palsy and their friends and families. Provides advice and information on education, daily living and employment.

Helpline: 0808 800 3333 E-mail: response@scope.org.uk

Mencap
UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers.

Free 24 hour Helpline: 0808 808 1111, Minicom: 0808 808 8181

Re-think
The leading national mental health charity for people with mental health problems and their carers. Works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.

Tel: 0845 456 0455, Advice Line: 0208 974 6814 E-mail:info@rethink.org

Counsel and Care
Counsel and Care is a national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers by providing advice, information and financial support and by influencing policies, services and funding.

Advice line: 0845 300 7585 Tel: 020 7241 8555 E-mail: advice@counselandcare.org.uk

Citizen Advice Bureau
Health: CAB provides free, confidential and independent advice from over 3,000 locations including in, GP surgeries, hospitals, colleges, prisons and courts.

Dalston and Hackney CAB Tel : 0870 126 4013 – 24, Fax: 020 7249 7699

Central Africa's Rights & AIDS (CARA) Society
CARA provides free, confidential and independent advice in different areas of work including GP surgeries, hospitals, colleges, prisons and courts - Registered Office Address: 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, Hackney, London E8 3DL United Kingdom (UK) - Tel: +44 (0) 844 478 0015 -Mob: +44(0) 795 695 2645 -Fax: +44(0) 872 115 8436 -Email: info@cara-online.org

The Disability Law Centre
The Disability Law Service is a national registered charity that provides confidential and free legal advice for disabled adults, their families and carers. DLS also provides disabled people with a casework service.

Adviceline Tel: 020 7791 9800, Minicom: 020 7791 9801, Fax: 020 7791 9802 E-mail: advice@dls.org.uk

Hackney Community Law Centre
Law Centres provide an independent legal advice and representation service. They employ specialists in areas of ‘social welfare’ law and help individuals and local groups with problems. General telephone advice plus specialist legal work in areas of Housing, Community Care, Immigration, Asylum, Employment, Sex, Race, Disability, Police Misconduct, Training and Policy Work in specialist areas.

Telephone: 020 8985 8364, Fax: 020 8533 2018 Email: info@hclc.org.uk

Home Office
The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) is part of the Home Office. This section provides details about the structure, aims and work of IND.

Tel: 0870 241 0645

Updated April 18 2010