If you need medical help, please follow the guidance on the NHS Inform website. Do not go directly to your GP, hospital or other healthcare environment. If you are at higher risk of severe illness and you need help with food or medicine deliveries, you should contact your Council's shielding support service.
A new national helpline has been set up to provide essential assistance to those who do not have family or existing community support, who cannot leave their home and cannot get online, but who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. Please contact 0800 111 4000 or read further information.
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Who Cares? Scotland is offering emotional support, information and financial assistance to anyone who has been or is in care and is struggling due to Covid-19 and lockdown. Care experience could include kinship care, looked after at home, residential care, foster care, secure care or adoption. We…
Telephone Buddying service for people living with cancer. We know cancer can be an isolating experience at any time, more so during these times of shielding and social distancing. One of our volunteer Buddies can provide a listening ear to help ensure you don’t face cancer alone.
You will receive…
If you, or someone you know, is affected by a terminal illness and concerned about coronavirus (COVID-19), our Support Line team are ready to help with the information you need when you need it.
We can tell you what is the telephone and email contact details for Councils in GB, if you have lost contact with an at-risk elderly relative, who lives to far away for you to check-up that they have not passed-out.
Children 1st Parentline offers free practical and emotional support to parents and carers with anything that is affecting their family.
Parentline can also offer specialist support for families facing money worries.
We are running online social groups to support autistic people and families across Scotland.
Our online social groups are facilitated by staff and offer a place for autistic people to connect and talk about whatever they wish - from film and TV, to cooking, gaming, art and other interests.
The…
Our helpline is open. The face to face learning and befriending services will now be delivered online or by telephone as per the latest government/NHS guidance.
Advisors can help with any questions people may have around staying warm and saving energy whilst self-isolating, working from home, or getting to grips with home-schooling duties. The team have the latest information from energy suppliers who have agreed emergency measures to make sure vulnerable p…
Our aims & objectives The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) is a membership based organisation for social welfare advice providers across the UK. Our aims and objectives are- Aims: To challenge, influence and improve welfare rights policy and legislation; To promote NA…
