Health and Adult Social Care
When you're thinking about your care and support needs for the future, it may help to speak to a qualified independent financial adviser. An independent financial advisor can help you to understand the plans you need to make when looking at funding future care services. Information about what to check when choosing an independent financial advisor, and how to find one.
Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project (BUCFP) was set up in 1981 and is a registered charity. BUCFP provide practical support, education, advice, lunch clubs and much more to the unemployed, those in poor living conditions, benefit claimants, pensioners, families and those on low incomes.
Although banks must ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to use their products and services, even simple tasks such as withdrawing cash can prove challenging. Choose goes through some of the issues, and what various banks are doing to make things simpler for blind and partially sighted people to use banking services.
Citizens Advice aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. They provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. They value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.
Citizens Advice aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. They provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. They value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.
A national guide to grants provided by UK charities or trusts, offering information to those with a disability, and to those caring for someone with a disability.
An Access to Work grant can pay for practical support if you have a disability, health or mental health condition to help you start working, stay in work or move into self-employment or start a business. The grant is not for business start-up costs.
If you are a disabled person, you have rights to protect you from discrimination. GOV.UK has information about employment, education and dealing with the police.
Information about blue badge parking, vehicle tax exemption and VAT relief, the motability scheme and public transport.
A lasting power of attorney (LPA) is a legal document that lets you appoint one or more people to help you make decisions or to make decisions on your behalf. If you have an accident or an illness and canÂ't make decisions, this gives you more control over what happens to you.
New Enterprise Allowance can provide money and support to help you start your own business if you're getting certain benefits.
You could get a business mentor to help you develop your business idea and start trading; get a weekly allowance paid for up to 26 weeks (up to a total of £1,274); apply for a loan to help with start-up costs. The loan has to be paid back, the allowance doesn't.
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) protects people in England and Wales who may not have the mental capacity to make certain decisions for themselves, such as about their health and finance.