Publications for children and families

• Access to records
• Access to services
• Adoption
• Assessment
• Carers
• Children in care/fostering
• Comments, compliments and complaints
• Disability or special needs
• Housing
• Money
• Safeguarding children
• Sensory impairment

We produce a variety of social care publications specifically for services for children, young people and families. You can order most of these social care documents by using our online publications order form. 

You can also order them by post using the form attached below.

Please contact us you require this information:

• on audio tape;
• in Braille;
• in large print; or 
• translated into another language.

Our contact details are as follows.

• Email: publications@westsussex.gov.uk
• Phone: 01243 752032

Supporting document

• Publications order form (PDF, 2 pages, 167KB)

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Access to records

• Application to access your personal social care information 
  (PDF, 2 pages, 12KB)

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Access to services

• Helping you to make the most of your life: the occupational therapy service (PDF, 2 Pages, 209KB)
• How we decide who to help: explaining how to access children's social services (PDF, 5 pages, 530KB).

Also available in:

• Punjabi (PDF, 7 pages, 55KB)
• Turkish (PDF, 5 pages, 92KB)
• Urdu (PDF, 5 pages, 169KB)

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Adoption

• A younger child's guide to adoption (PDF, 12 pages, 938KB)
• Adoption support service (PDF, 2 pages, 223KB)
• Ever thought about adoption? (PDF, 2 pages, 205KB)

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Assessment

• A guide to assessments for children, young people and families 
  (PDF, 2 pages, 107KB)
• Looking after someone: assessments for carers (PDF, 2 pages, 219KB).

Also available in:

• Arabic (PDF, 4 pages, 167KB)
• Gujarati (PDF, 5 pages, 77KB)
• Hindi (PDF, 4 pages, 44KB)
• Urdu (PDF, 5 pages, 345KB)

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Carers

• Carer's emergency alert card (PDF, 2 pages, 410KB)
• Children with caring responsibilities (PDF, 2 pages, 291KB)
• Looking after someone: assessments for carers (PDF, 2 pages, 219KB).

Also available in:

• Arabic (PDF, 4 pages, 167KB)
• Gujarati (PDF, 5 pages, 77KB)
• Hindi (PDF, 4 pages, 44KB)
• Urdu (PDF, 5 pages, 345KB)

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Children in care and fostering

• Fostering: putting yourself in the picture (PDF, 4 pages, 4.2MB)
• Guide to your Looked After Children review (PDF, 2 pages, 174KB)

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Comments, compliments and complaints

• Comments, compliments and complaints about children and young people's services (PDF, 2 pages, 137KB)
• Comments, compliments, complaints about children's social care (for children and young people) (PDF, 2 pages, 181KB)

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Disability and special needs

• Disabled facilities grants for adapting your home (PDF, 2 pages, 249KB)
• Equipment to help you to live independently (PDF, 2 pages, 220KB)
• Helping you to make the most of your life: the occupational therapy service (PDF, 2 Pages, 209KB)
• Sitting service for families with a disabled child (PDF, 2 pages, 190KB)
• Where do I go from here? Information for parents and carers of children who have a disability or additional needs (PDF, 24 pages, 305KB)

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Housing

• Disabled facilities grants for adapting your home (PDF, 2 pages, 249KB)

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Money

• Disabled facilities grants for adapting your home (PDF, 2 pages, 249KB)

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Safeguarding children

• Child protection conferences: guide for parents and carers 
  (PDF, 12 pages, 84KB)
• Child protection conferences: guide for young people 
  (PDF, 8 pages, 131KB)
• Child protection enquiries: guide for parents and carers 
  (PDF, 12 pages, 70KB) 
• Concealed pregnancy and birth good practice guide
  (PDF, 40 pages, 361KB)
• Domestic violence and abuse good practice guide (PDF, 19 pages, 546KB)
• Graded care profile: information for families (PDF, 4 pages, 190KB)
• Making a complaint about a child protection conference 
  (PDF, 2 pages, 64KB)
• Really useful guide to recognising neglect (PDF, 16 pages, 882KB)

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Sensory impairment

• Changing focus: information for people with sight difficulties 
  (PDF, 52 pages, 159KB)
• Equipment to help you to live independently (PDF, 2 pages, 220KB)

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