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Links and Contacts
On this page, you will find web links and phone number of services
and organisations that may be able to offer you support or assistance.
If you find any links that don't work, or any information that
is out of date, please let
us know
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Community Safety Partnerships:
Following the 1998 Crime
and Disorder Act, five Community Safety Partnerships were formed
in Cambridgeshire. Each works to assess the amount crime and
disorder in their area and put in place strategies designed to
reduce the most common types of crime and disorder. For more
details click the link for your area.
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Health & Support
Relate - help people
through difficult and unhappy stages in their relationships -
Visit the Relate
website or telephone 01223 357424
Victim Support and Witness
Service in Cambridge - Visit the website
or telephone 01223 329 000. If you prefer, you can contact Victim
Support's national telephone supportline 0845 30 30 900.
Rape Crisis - free, confidential support for women who have been
raped or sexually abused - 01223 358314
CHOICES Counselling - a confidential counselling service for
those whose lives are affected by childhood sexual abuse. Visit
the CHOICES website
or telephone the appropriate number:
01223 471574 for women
01223 505089 for men
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Emergency Contacts
IN EMERGENCY
DIAL "999"
Parkside Police Family Unit
01223 823559
The Police can protect you from further danger, ensure that you
and your children are not at risk from further abuse, take firm
& positive action against your attacker
WOMEN'S AID
24 Hour Local Helpline
01223 460947
National Helpline
08457 023468
(includes language line)
Women's Aid
provides advice, practical and emotional support, & safe
and secure accommodation in a refuge
THE SAMARITANS
24 hour confidential helpline - 01223 364455 or 0345 909090
Offer emotional
support 24 hours a day, by phone, face-to-face, or by letter.
Minor offences
can be notified to the Police via the Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Website. Click the logo to visit the website.
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Money
Information about benefits
can be found on the following websites:
Jobcentre Plus Website
Department
for Work and Pensions Website
Working
and Child Tax Credits Website
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Legal Issues
Citizens Advice Bureau - Free confidential advice and information
Jane Lawrence & Co - specialist solicitors - 01223 462244
Cambridge Independent Advice Centre - Free confidential advice
on benefits, debt, employment, housing rights - 01223 712222
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Housing Advice
Advice available on your
housing rights and options
May in some cases be able to provide emergency accommodation
Click here to visit the Housing Advice pages of
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Cambridge City Council
44 St Andrews Street
Cambridge
Tel: 01223 457924/34/37
South Cambridgeshire
District Council
Cambourne Business Park
Cambourne, Cambridge CB3 6EA.
Tel. 08450 450 500
South Cambridgeshire District
Council also has a Customer Service team at Mandela House in
Cambridge. The team is available to help with any questions you
may have about services such as housing, housing benefit, and
rent.
Housing - Other Organisations
English Churches Housing
Group - 01223 352718
Cambridge Housing Society - 01223 357600
Granta Housing Association - 01223 313051
Cambridge YMCA - 01223 356998
Women and Homelessness Group (hostel for single, homeless women)
- 01223 369125 (best to phone between 9-30am and 10.30am)
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Same sex relationships
Broken Rainbow the LGBT
DV support group
Hotline: 07812 644 914 or email: lgbt@btopenworld.com
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Moving On
Opportunity Links - provides information about jobs, training
and childcare - 0800 29 89 121
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Information, Advice & Guidance Impartial information
and advice about jobs, training, funding, leisure activities
and assistance for single parents.
Cambridge Women's Resources
Centre - free training in English, Maths, IT, ESOL and Woodwork
for women only. Free creche.
Amber Employment
Project - online service for women looking for work in the
Cambridgeshire area.
Women's
Awareness and Self protection Group - information about local
self defence courses
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