• Health conditions
• Health and social care services
• Advice for carers
• Support groups, voluntary
  organisations and charities
• Housing
• Financial advice and benefits
• Education and training
• Employment and volunteering
• Healthy living, social and
  leisure
• Transport
• Crisis support

Crisis support

• Citizens Advice Bureau
  CAB answer enquiries in person, telephone or letter, about areas including: welfare benefits; housing; money advice; relationship breakdown; and immigration.
  
  Contact details
  Telephone:
  Advice Line: 0845 120 3710
  Switchboard: 01273 733390
• DirectGov
  Public service information in one place - Includes health; disability; pensions; travel; legal; and community.

• Where to get help and advice in Brighton and Hove - Information leaflet (120kb PDF file)
• NHS Direct
  National healthline, providing 24 hour expert health advice, information and reassurance.
  
  Contact details
  Telephone: 0845 4647
  

Bereavement

Bereavement services

• Brighton and Hove City Council bereavement services
  Bereavement services provide a personal, caring and dignified service to any member of the public that has suffered a bereavement.
  
  Contact details
  Address: The Woodvale Lodge
  Lewes Road
  Brighton         
  BN2 3QB
  Telephone: 01273 604020
  
• Civic funerals
• Planning for a funeral (99kb PDF file)
  This factsheet briefly discusses arrangements that can be made in advance for your own or someone else’s funeral. It also explains what to do when someone has died and refers to other organisations which may be useful.
• Registering a death
  

Bereavement support groups

• Brighton and Hove Bereavement support
  A free bereavement service sponsored by the churches in Brighton and Hove.

Contact details
Telephone: 01273 772210
Address:
Chapel Royal
164 North Street
Brighton
BN1 1EA
Email: bereavementsupport@hotmail.co.uk

• Cruse Bereavement Care
  Promote the well-being of bereaved people and enables anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services.
• The child death helpline
  Whenever you feel the need to talk, however soon or long after bereavement.

Contact details
Telephone: 0800 282986

Bereavement information leaflets

• Bereavement - A self help guide (link to external website)
  Includes sections on understanding grief, dealing with feelings, self-help, practical things that need to be done after a death, useful organisations and suggested reading.
• Cruse bereavement services (330kb PDF file)
  This leaflet offers support and advice when someone has been affected by a death.
• Help the Aged bereavement information leaflet (201kb PDF file)
  An advice leaflet for older people coping with bereavement.
• What to do after a death (220kb PDF file)
  An information leaflet explaining the first things to do and the help available.

Health and social care

• Patient Advice and Liaison Services
  PALS provide information about local NHS services, social care services, community and voluntary groups, and self help/support groups by telephone, email or post, and tell you where you can find out more.

Contact details
Telephone: 0800 013 0251
Email: brightonandhovepals@nhs.net

• Social Care Access Point
  The Access Point team provides a single point of contact for new and existing users of social care services; better information and advice on the full range of care options; a simple assessment process designed to resolve people’s needs as quickly as possible. Where needs are more complex, users will be referred to the appropriate team for a more detailed assessment.

Contact details
Telephone: 01273 295555
Address: Access Point
3rd Floor Barts House
Bartholomew’s Square, BN1 1JP
Email: accesspoint@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Adult Social Care Access Point (30kb PDF file)
This information leaflet is the single point of contact for new and existing users of Adult Social Care, providing information, advice and assessments over the phone.

• You Won't Believe The Things Cancer Can Take Away
  A range of puclications and information leaflets for people affected by cancer on the financial help and advice available, and who to contact if they are about to lose their homes or are struggling to make ends meet.

Legal

• BHT Advice
  Provides free independent legal advice. They also provide representation in the Brighton County Court. Please phone for an appointment or for telephone advice.

Contact details
Telephone: 01273 234737

• Community Legal Services in East Sussex
  Free, confidential and independent legal advice.

Contact details
Telephone: 0845 345 4345

• Immigration and Nationality
  The Community Legal Service (CLS) is a network of legal and advice providers. The Criminal Defence Service (CDS) helps people who are under police investigation or facing criminal charges.

Contact details
Telephone: 0845 3000 343