Partners
- Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group
- Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
- Voluntary Organisations for Children, young people & families
General
- Central Bedfordshire Council: statistics and census information page
- Central Bedfordshire Council: economic information
- Health and Social Care Information Centre
- Local health profiles (link goes to a ‘search results’ page that includes the CBC profile)
- Projecting Adult Needs and Service Information (PANSI)
- Projecting Older People Population Information (POPPPI)
Commissioning
- Local Government Association guidance on Commissioning in a local authority
- Central Bedfordshire Council procurement guidance
- Governments Sufficiency Strategy guidance
- National Audit Office: A guide to successful commissioning
- Department for Education (DfE)
- Bedfordshire Clininal Commissioning Group
Locality profiles
Sensory
- RNIB helpline
Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk - Deafblind UK
Email: info@deafblind.org.uk - SENSE for deaf blind people
Email: supporterservices@sense.org.uk - Sightline Directory (RNIB)
Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk - See-ability (LD specific sensory services, including accommodation)
Email: enquiries@seeability.org - Sight Concern
Email: office@sightconcern.org.uk - Action for Blind People
Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk - Action on Hearing Loss (was RNID)
Email: informationline@hearingloss.org.uk - Action Deafness
Email: enquiries@actiondeafness.org.uk - Pohwer
Email: pohwer@pohwer.net - Access Bedford – voluntary provider for deaf services
Email: accessbedford@outlook.com
Learning Difficulties
- Royal Mencap Society
Email: help@mencap.org.uk - Right Track CIC
Email: righttrack@hotmail.co.uk - Kids in Action (also adults with LD)
Email: kidsinaction@aol.com - Home Farm Trust (HFT)
- Lansdown Care
Stroke
- British Red Cross
Email: information@redcross.org.uk - Think Ahead - stroke advice support and Info
Email: info@think-ahead.org.uk - The Stroke Association
Email: evelyn.conaty@stroke.org.uk - Advice Central
Autism
- East London Foundation Trust
Email: webadmin@eastlondon.nhs.uk - The National Autistic Society
Email: nas@nas.org.uk - Autism Bedfordshire -
Email: enquiries@autismbeds.org
Dementia
- The Dementia Challenge Map
- Dementia and Housing
- Dementia Friends
- Dementia Local Action Alliance
- Alzheimer’s Society