About the service

The Learning Disabilities Resource Centre is a social services day service for adults with complex physical and learning disabilities.

The centre provides a person-centred service that supports individuals to access their own community, college and centre-based activities/experiences focused on:

• swimming
• aerobics
• advocacy
• art
• yoga
• massage
• rebound therapy
• hydrotherapy sessions (physiotherapy in a heated swimming pool)
• music
• multisensory room
• IT/eye gaze sessions (controlling a computer through eye movements)
• travel training
• support to college
• access to local museums, i.e. Natural History Museum, Science Museum. etc.
• volunteer opportunities (office based volunteer opportunities in the community)

The centre-based work focuses on the needs of the service users that attend the service, offering physiotherapy exercises, speech and language assessments, eating and drinking guidelines and individual timetables for all service users. The centre works in conjunction with the Health and Care Management Learning Disability Team.

How to access the service

For more information, please contact Steve O'Sullivan via telephone or email. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: Steve.O'[email protected]

Telephone: 020 7313 6825

About the service

If you are worried that a child or young person might need help or is being neglected or hurt, it is important that you share your worries. Many people are worried that contacting Family Services will mean that children are taken into care. In fact, unless a child is in danger, Kensington and Chelsea Social Services Line will work hard with parents to help and support them so that the family can stay together. Of course where there is a serious issue of abuse or neglect we will protect children together with the police and other agencies.

If you are worried that someone is in immediate danger please call 999.

If you have concerns about the safety and welfare of a child who lives in Kensington and Chelsea you should contact us on the number below.

How to access the service

If you have concerns that a vulnerable adult is being subjected to abuse or neglect please contact them via email or telephone. Find contact details below.

Availability

Social Services Line: Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Emergency Duty Team: Monday to Friday between 5pm and 9am.

Contact details

Email:

[email protected]
[email protected] (Secure email)

Telephone:

020 7361 3013 (Social Services Line)
020 7373 2227 (Emergency Duty Team)

Visit the Social Services page

About the service

The safety and welfare of children - or child protection - is everyone's business. You could be a neighbour, friend, parent, relative, child minder, teacher or doctor - or working for any organisation which has contact with children and young people.

Child protection means protecting children from physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect. It also means helping children to grow up into confident, healthy and happy adults.

Most children enjoy generally happy childhood experiences within their own family. Unfortunately for some, this is not the case. During difficult family times, everyone who knows the child must do the best they can to protect them from future harm.

Local Safeguarding Children Partnership provides guidance on what to do if you suspect a child is being sexually exploited.

How to access the service

If you want to report any abuse or discuss concerns in relation to children and young people please contact them. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Emergency Duty team opening hours are 5pm to 9am.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 7361 3013 (If you want to report any abuse or discuss concerns in relation to children and young people)

020 7641 2388 (Emergency Duty Team)

Visit the RBKC website

About the service

The Housing and Employment Service offers specialised and friendly support to help you into work or training.

Our employment support officers will also help you to tackle other barriers to work such as housing or welfare benefits. Many of our residents have said that the help they have received from the service has been a huge benefit to them in many situations providing important information and guidelines to help improve their lives.

The Housing and Employment Team can help you to:

• find work and training – help with CV’s, job searching, application forms, and interview practice
• apply for welfare benefits – help and advice on applying for welfare benefits
• manage money and income maximisation: help to appeal welfare benefit decisions, budgeting, apply for grants, and reduce debt
• access other specialist services – we also work in partnership with other services to help you access specialist support if needed

How to access the service

All Kensington and Chelsea residents can access support from the Housing and Employment team.

The Housing and Employment Service is based at Kensington Town Hall. You can contact the team via telephone or email. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 7361 2070

Visit the RBKC website

About the service

Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations.

The training takes five hours to complete. In response to feedback, they have developed a bitesize approach to help the learning process.

In the eight-week programme, you spend 20 to 30 minutes per week engaging with the training.

The training will be finished by week eight, and learners will be awarded the gold-level status 'Committed to Trauma Informed Practice'.

How to access the service

Access the free pre-recorded training here.

About the service

OLLIE is a charity dedicated to delivering suicide awareness, intervention and prevention training by empowering professionals and young adults in their communities to lead suicide prevention activities.

OLLIE offer confidential help and advice to young people and anyone worried about a young person. Resources help others to prevent young suicide by delivering a number of training programmes.

How to access the service

If you are supporting someone and there isn’t an immediate threat to life and YOU would like some advice, there is usually someone at OLLIE who you can speak to you during office hours. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 4pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 07715 311891

Visit the OLLIE Foundation website

About the service

National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) is an alliance of public, private and voluntary organisations in England who care about suicide prevention and are willing to take individual and collective action to reduce suicide and self-harm, and support those bereaved or affected by suicide.

How to access the service

National Suicide Prevention Alliance is unable to offer emotional support or advice on individual cases. To access their resources please visit NSPA website.

Availability

24/7 online resource.

Contact details

Visit the NSPA website

About the service

Kensington and Chelsea Council have commissioned Every Life Matters to deliver a programme of suicide prevention training.

This half-day online training session is aimed at anyone who wants to understand more about suicide, how to spot when someone may be having thoughts of suicide, how to talk openly about suicide, what services and what practical support we can all offer each other.

The training modules are:

• safety planning
• suicide alertness
• suicide awareness

How to access the service

Visit the Eventbrite page to book yourself on the training

About the service

distrACT is a trusted national free resource for any health and care provider in the UK, from NHS organisations to universities, local authorities, health charities, and private mental health practitioners. This is a resource for self-harm support and suicide prevention.

How to access the service

Download the distrACT App.

Availability

24/7 online resource.

Contact details

Visit the Expert Self Care website

About the service

Asian Women Resource Centre was established over 40 years ago and is a pioneer of services for BME women and children affected by domestic abuse, forced marriages, honour based and faith-based abuse.

AWRC provides support services in the following languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bengali, Bangla, Dari, Dutch, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Hinko, Konkani, Kurdish, Marathi, Pashto, Patwari, Persian, Punjabi, Somali, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu. Their service ensures cultural sensitivity, confidentiality and listening in a safe, non-judgemental environment. AWRC has an open-door policy to all women in need, from all ethnicities and backgrounds.

How to access the service

To make a referral to AWRC for yourself or someone else, please complete their online form.

If you need support for referrals please email [email protected].

Availability

Monday to Thursday between 9am and 5pm.
Friday between 10am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email:

[email protected]
[email protected]

Telephone:

020 8961 6549
020 8961 5701

Visit the Asian Women Resource Centre website