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Online resources Connect to Support Surrey An online directory of local support and services to help you, or your loved ones, stay independent: • Website: www.connecttosupportsurrey.org.uk Family Information Service Information for all families with children aged 0-25 on a range of subjects: • Website: www.surreycc.gov.uk/fis Digital Support Digital Buddies in libraries Offers personalised, one to one support with any digital products or websites you might be struggling with, as well as helping to access the library's wide range of online services: • Telephone: 03456 009 009 and press option 6 • Textphone (via Relay UK): 18001 03456 009 009 and press option 6 • Website: www.surreycc.gov.uk/digitalbuddy Tech Angels Service Provides devices, training and support to get people in Surrey online: • Telephone: 01483 456558 • Text (SMS): 07780 933 053 • Email: getconnected…

Forces Connect Are you a member of the Armed Forces Community? Forces Connect is a free app for veterans, ex and current serving personnel and their families to gain support and advice on a range of topics – from education and training to crisis support and wellbeing advice. Search Forces Connect…

be benefit from palliative care. The team can also ensure an integrated ongoing approach to your child’s treatment and care as well as family support by liaising effectively with local community support. Children’s Hospice As well as providing specialist nursing care and short breaks on site (often referred to as ‘respite care’), a children’s hospice will provide specialist nursing care in the family home, symptom management, end of life care and bereavement support. Tailored support is free of charge to families and includes a named key worker and a comprehensive range of therapies and support… reconsider a further referral if their condition changes or new information becomes available. Similarly, there is a regular review of each child they support. The referral process can take a minimum of two weeks unless it is an emergency in which case the referral can be dealt with in a matter of hours…

is supported to plan for their future and is involved in assessments and in developing a comprehensive plan which reflects their wishes. Every young person has both an end of life care plan and plan for ongoing care and support in adult services. Children’s and adult services will work together to ensure smooth transition. Young people and their family are supported in adult services with a multi-agency team and given honest and realistic advice about what they can expect in terms of how their care and support needs will be met in the future. Partnerships working between children’s and adult… hospices are beginning to play more of a role with young adult people, they may not offer the range of support, services, therapies and short breaks that you are used to. Make sure you have parallel plans that will both help meet your child’s needs and wishes should their condition deteriorate as well…

Surrey County Council’s Public Health Gambling harm campaign and how people can access help and support.…

Latest news from Mary Frances Trust including Community Connections, Nature Nurtures and peer support.…

, and type of care they might need, and which setting might be right for them and you in your caring role. Think about what care you and their family are able and willing to provide, not just now but also in the future and the person’s final days. Bear in mind the nature and level of support you feel…

There may be a number of people who become involved in the person you care for’s end of life care and the provision of support to you as their carer. The person you care for may receive support from some or all of the following people, and you and the person you care for can ask questions to any… assessment for social care ie. non-medical support, as well as carrying out a carer’s assessment of your own needs as the carer. When a terminal illness has been diagnosed a specialist palliative care team will assess the needs of the person you care for and your own needs as a carer. This team… and cope better with the situation. A chaplain is a cleric (minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam) or a lay representative of religious tradition attached to a hospital or hospice. Their role is to offer spiritual support to you and the person you care for. A chaplain will listen to how you feel…

Coping with bereavement is difficult when death is expected, but if the death is sudden it is even harder to deal with. A sudden death might be the result of: A murder. Road or other accident. Heart attack (which is also the second highest cause of death after cancer). Drug or alcohol o…

New locations across Surrey provide vital mental health support for men…