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Dorset County Council – services for children
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Tel: 01305 221000
County Hall
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
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Provide social care services for children and young people
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Children, young people and those that care for them
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Dorset Library - Home Library Service
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Tel: 01305 225000
Library Headquarters
Dorset County Council
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
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Dorset Council's Home Library Service delivers books to the housebound, those living in their own homes or sheltered housing for free. We offer a wide range of fiction as well as information books on country life, cookery, travel, biography and other popular subjects. You can request specific boo...
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The service is available to housebound people living in their own homes or sheltered housing. If you live in a residential home we have other services available to you. Please contact your local library.
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Dorset Advocacy
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Tel: 0300 343 7000
13-15 Jubilee Court
Paceycombe Way
Poundbury
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 3AE
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Dorset Advocacy works in the Dorset and BCP Council area with disabled people, carers, people with learning disabilities or difficulties, and those who lack mental capacity. We help you to speak up so that you get the social and health care services that you need. We can also provide support if...
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People with learning difficulties, disabled and older people.
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Living with Secondary Breast Cancer - Taunton
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Tel: 0345 077 1893
TA1 4AA
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Our Living with Secondary Breast Cancer meet ups in Taunton usually take place monthly, and you can attend as few or as many as you like. All sessions are facilitated by a counsellor and once a quarter we invite a guest speaker, for example a Clinical Nurse Specialist or Benefits Advisor. Questio...
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Tel: 01305 751160
St John Ambulance
St John House
Bridport Road
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2NH
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St John Ambulance Dorset provides a Carers Support Programme to help people in a caring role.
The Carers Support Programme is a free 4 session course (held over one morning for four weeks) and is available to any adult who looks after another, in caring capacity. The course material is accredite...
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The Home Library Service - Dorset and BCP
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Tel: 01305 236666
Royal Voluntary Service
The Old School House
49 High West Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1UT
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If you are housebound, are unable to get to your local library and have no one to collect items for you, we can arrange for them to be delivered to your home.
The service is delivered free of charge, every 3 weeks
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People who are unable to access the library and their carers
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Somerset Mobile Library
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Tel: 0845 345 9177
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Somerset County Council
County Hall
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 4DY
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Somerset Council operate 6 mobile libraries based in Bridgwater, Minehead, Taunton, Wells and Wincanton. They have a wide selection of books, novels, large print books, DVDs, music CDs and talking books available to borrow.
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Somerset Portage Service
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Tel: 01823 334475
C/O County Hall
The Crescent
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 4DY
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Portage is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with additional support needs and their families. The aim of Portage is to support the development of young children's play, communication and relationships and to encourage full participation in day to day life within the fam...
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This service is for pre-school children with additional support needs and their families.
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Somerset Council - services for children
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Tel: 0300 123 2224
County Hall
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 4DY
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Provide social care services for children and young people
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Children, young people and those that care for them
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Somerset Council - services for adults
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Tel: 0845 345 9133
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County Hall
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 4DY
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Provide social care services for adults
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Adults and those that care for them
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