209 - 211 City Road
London
EC1V 1JN

Tel: 020 7608 8700
Helpline: 0808 808 3555 (Mon - Fri, 10am - 4pm, Mon 5:30pm - 7:30pm)
Textphone: 0808 808 3556
Fax: 020 7608 8701
E-mail: info@cafamily.org.uk
Website: www.cafamily.org.uk

Description:
Facilitator of contact between families of children with disabilities.

Aims:
To offer support families caring for children across the UK with any disability or special needs.

Activities:
Works to provide contact between the families of children with any disability or special need - learning difficulty, physical disability, medical condition, rare syndrome, life-threatening condition or behavioural difficulty.

Provides information on:

• Local parent support groups: There is a network of over 1,000 of these local groups and contacts, where parents meet together to support each other and to share information.
• National support networks: Some families whose children have the same specific condition form national family support networks. There are over 300 of these groups.
• One-to-one links: If no national support network exists CaF try to link families on a one-to-one basis with another family in similar circumstances.

Caf services include:

• Telephone helpline: Open to any parent, relative or professional worker, the helpline offers information, advice and support on a wide range of topics relating to children's special needs.
• Liaison: CaF works closely with a wide range of professional workers, finding out what is going on in different parts of the country.

updated 23/08/06

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