Care Charities and Information

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This page provides information about where to go for further information about children's respite care, as well as listing charities who offer grants or provide free chdilren's respite or domiciliary care.

Some of the children's respite care homes listed on this page may charge for care, although they are all not for profit or charitable organisations.

PLEASE NOTE: Special Needs Kids does not directly endorse any of the organisations listed, although we make every effort to ensure the information is up to date and relevant. Please contact the organisations directly to make enquiries.

Parents often contact us asking about respite care regulations and the differences between private and charitable care, so we've put together some key facts to help you.

1. In England care services are monitored by the 'Care Quality Commission' who are an independant regulator of health and social care in England. Visit their website by Clicking Here.

On their website they have an excellent search facility that allows you to type in names of care companies and charities to view their previous care quality rating (These ratings are no longer used, although previous years reports are still documented on the site)

For up to date care standards information, go to the Care Standards Legislation 2011

2. Care services are monitored by a different organisation in Scotland. The Scottish commission for the regulation of care was set up in 2002 under the Regulation of Care Act 2001 to regulate all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland. On 1 April 2011 the work of the Care Commission passed to a new body, the Care Inspectorate. Regulation of independent healthcare has passed to Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

You can visit the Healthcare Improvement Scotland website for more information about regulations and care standards in Scotland CLICK HERE. Their purpose is to support healthcare providers in Scotland to deliver high quality, evidence-based, safe, effective and person-centred care; and to scrutinise those services to provide public assurance about the quality and safety of that care.

3. For information specific to Wales, go to the Care Council For Wales

CHILDREN'S CARE ORGANISATIONS
MENCAP	KIDS
London Telephone - 0808 808 1111 website - mencap.org.uk/helpline Mencap provides a helpline with information about respite care for children with learning disabilities.	Nationwide Charity Telephone - 020 7359 3635 website - www.kids.org.uk The KIDS charity offers respite and parent facilities.
SHARED CARE NETWORK	CHAT Charity
Nationwide Charity Telephone - 0117 941 5361 website - www.sharedcarenetwork.org.uk This charity network is an umbrella organisation for around 250 schemes that provide family based short breaks, sitting services and befriending in the UK.	The CHAT (children, health and therapy) charity is a small children’s charity based in Buckinghamshire. They work with registered nursing agencies to provide much needed short term respite care at home, for families with children who have complex or ongoing health needs. Telephone: 01296 566085 Website: www.chat-charity.org.uk

RESPITE CARE CENTRES AND HOSPICES IN UK

Children's Hospice Association of Scotland
Head Office
Canal Court
42 Craiglockhart Avenue
Edinburgh , EH14 1LT
Telephone – 0131 444 1900

Care Charities and Information

CHILDREN'S CARE ORGANISATIONS

MENCAP

KIDS

SHARED CARE NETWORK

CHAT Charity

RESPITE CARE CENTRES AND HOSPICES IN UK