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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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Somerset Carers
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Tel: 01823 331 222 / 0800 31 68 600
Viney Court
Viney Street
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 3FB
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Somerset Carers is a support service for unpaid carers across Somerset.
Who cares for the carers? We do.
Caring for another person is very rewarding, but can be overwhelming and lonely at times. If you regularly look after someone in a caring capacity, the Somerset Carers service can support y...
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Somerset SENDIAS
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Tel: 01823 355578
Somerset SENDIAS
The Hollies Children’s Centre
South Road
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 3AG
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We give children, young people and their parent carers information, advice and support about SEND. This can include information on Education, Health and Care (EHC) Needs Assessments and Plans.
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All parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs in Somerset
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Diabetes Uk South West (Main Office)
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Tel: 01823 448 260
Diabetes UK South West Regional Office
Victoria House
Victoria Street
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 3FA
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We offer information , advice and support for people with diabetes and their carers. We do this by raising awareness, fundraising, offering support and resources.
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Anyone who has a query regarding diabetes
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Headway Somerset
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Tel: 01823 618519
Victoria House
Victoria Street
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 3FA
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Headway Somerset provides a range of services and support for survivors of acquired brain injury and their relatives.
Hospital Liaison Service - supports people with ABI in Yeovil District Hospital, Musgrove Park Hospital and the Somerset Neuro Rehabilitation Centre (SNRC). Contact: 0751475338...
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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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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Dorset Gastrectomy And Oesophagectomy (Go) Support Group
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Tel: 01305 255710
Dorset County Hospital
Williams Avenue
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2JY
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The GO Support Group provides support, information and advice to anyone throughout Dorset who has undergone surgery for stomach cancer.
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Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Tel: 01278 432000
2nd Floor Mallard Court
Express Park
Bristol Road
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 4RN
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Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the NHS provider of mental health services in Somerset. Its goals are independence, recovery and social inclusion for the people who use its services. The Trust provides safe, excellent, innovative and user-responsive services in partnership with clien...
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ALCS - Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support
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Tel: 07512 279663
ALCS Cross Keys House
Chard Street
Axminster
Devon
EX13 5EB
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Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support aims to provide support for anyone living with and beyond cancer in our community, including relatives and carers, regardless of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
We provide information, educational literature and hold meeting...
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Cancer patients, their friends and families.
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