Useful links
Bakers Personal Injury Solicitors' Accredited Firms
LEXCEL www.lawsociety.org.uk/productsandservices/lexcel.page
Motor Accident Solicitors Society www.mass.org.uk
Investors in People www.investorsinpeople.co.uk
Solicitors Regulation Authority www.sra.org.uk
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers www.apil.org.uk
The Law Society of England & Wales www.lawsociety.org.uk
Benefits Advice
Benefits helpline - tax credits helpline www.benefitshelpline.com/Tax-Credits-Helpline~157.htm?keyword=benefits%20helpline%20uk
Charities providing support for personal injury
Aspire, supporting people with spinal injury www.aspire.org.uk
Headway, the brain injury association www.headway.org.uk
Charities providing support to families, children and bereaved parents
Care for the Family www.careforthefamily.org.uk
Child Bereavement Trust www.childbereavement.org.uk
Child Death Helpline www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk
Childline www.childline.org.uk
Sudden - Supporting people after sudden death www.suddendeath.org.uk
The Compassionate Friends www.tcf.org.uk
Winston's Wish www.winstonswish.org.uk
Charities providing bereavement support
Cruse www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk
Grief Encounter www.griefencounter.com
National Association of Widows www.nawidows.org.uk
The Way Foundation for widowed people under 50 www.wayfoundation.org.uk
Charities specifically supporting road crash victims
Brake www.brake.org.uk
Learn and Live www.learnandlive.org.uk
RoadPeace www.roadpeace.org
Support and Care after Road Death and Injury (SCARD) www.scard.org.uk
Scotland's Campaign Against Irresponsible Driving (SCID) www.scid.org.uk
Charities specifically supporting victims of crime
Support after Murder and Manslaughter (SAMM) www.samm.org.uk
Victim Support www.victimsupport.org.uk
Counselling organisations
The below professional organisations may be able to provide you with details of therapists in your area who specialise in counselling people who have been affected by an accident. These therapists will operate privately, so you are advised to find out if your GP can refer you to a specialist for free through the NHS first.
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies www.babcp.com
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy www.bacp.co.uk
Counselling Directory www.counselling-directory.org.uk
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) www.cosca.org.uk
Crisis support
The Samaritans - 24-hour support for anyone in need www.samaritans.org
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