Age UK Leeds is a local charity working in the community to support older people, their families, and carers. We want older people to be valued, to have their voices heard and to enjoy positive, independent lives.

We work together with organisations across the city to provide a range of services for older people including health and wellbeing activities, digital support and information and advice, including benefit entitlement checks.

For more information about Age UK Leeds, please visit our website ageuk.org.uk/leeds/

We are working across all seven practices in our PCN to identify unpaid Carers.

These are people who care for a friend or family member due to their illness, disability, mental health issue or a substance misuse problem but are not paid to do it.

Sometimes these Carers are only children.

We are working to get all unpaid Carers identified by the practices. This is usually done by the filling out of a Yellow Card, which means we add a code to the Carers record so we can identify you.

The Yellow Card is then sent off to Carers Leeds and the Carer can be contacted by Carers Leeds if they wish to access more support.

If we know you are a Carer then we can make sure you get invited for your annual flu vaccination, we can try and make sure that if the person you care for has an appointment at the Surgery then you can have one at the same time if you need one.

We will also be offering all Carers an Annual Health Check, just to make sure that your health is good, and you are doing ok in other areas of your life. At this appointment we can refer you on for extra support if you need it.

We can also signpost you to groups in the area, and to websites that you may find helpful.

The LS2526 LCP is covered by three ‘Clusters’ which focus on offering and co-ordinating a range of Early Help/preventative services for schools and the children, young people and their families associated with those schools which pay into the Cluster. Each Cluster is typically managed by a Targeted Services Leader/Cluster Manager (see contacts below) on behalf of the local schools who predominantly fund services with some financial support from Leeds City Council Children’s Services and NHS/CCG. Whilst there are different levels of resourcing, each Cluster typically offers services around SEMH (social emotional mental health) for children and young people (e.g. by providing short term counselling in schools) and ‘Family Support’. With Family Support, Clusters will take a whole family (‘think family: work family’) approach and usually covers advice around parenting plus helps all member’s of a families’ needs to address a range of issues/needs effecting the quality of that families life including engaging with school/learning). Other issues that maybe covered include: housing, finance, substance/alcohol misuse, domestic abuse etc. Some Clusters may support the provision of some out of school activities including during school holidays. Clusters work closely with and can co-ordinate at local level (e.g. through an Early Help Plan) health provision and the wide range of Children’s and Families Services from Children’s Centres provision (for pre-school aged children) to Children’s Social Work Services and third/voluntary sector. Clusters can access a range of additional Family, adult and Therapeutic services such as through the Early Help/Family Hubs and intensive family work. Referrals to Clusters are via professionals/practitioners only. 

For more information about each Cluster’s provision and for an update on provision, practitioners can contact:

• Brigshaw Cluster: Adele Dempster tel: 0113 2878900 Ext: 1147 email: [email protected]
• Garforth Cluster: Sharon Elliot (temporary) tel : 0113 2127146/07931692103 email: [email protected]
• Rothwell Cluster: Keith Lander tel: 0113 282 6467 email: [email protected]

Forward Leeds is the alcohol and drug service for Leeds. We help people choose not to misuse alcohol and drugs and reduce risk-taking behaviour through dedicated prevention, intervention and support.

We will support you to help achieve and sustain recovery from alcohol and drug misuse through a range of treatments. We offer a range of support and advice to people no matter how simple or complex their needs are.

If you’re feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or worried – Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS) is here to help.

We can all experience problems in everyday life, and LMWS can offer support and resources to help you through these ups and downs. We can support you to manage everyday problems such as feeling low, anxious or stressed, or struggling with sleep. through our wide range of psychological support options, including phone support, instant-access online resources (Omnitherapy), group classes, and one-to-one ‘talking therapies’.

One you run structured programmes to support you to:

• Eat Well
• Cook Well
• Manage your weight
• Move More

An online mental health and emotional wellbeing service is available to young people (aged 10- 18) called Kooth (www.kooth.com). Kooth is a free, safe, anonymous online emotional wellbeing community that is accessible 24/7, 365 days of the year and provides access to chat sessions with BACP-accredited counsellors and qualified emotional wellbeing practitioners. All our chat sessions are text-based conversations that take place on the Kooth website, and last up to an hour. Chat is available from 12pm – 10pm Monday through Friday, and 6pm – 10pm Saturday and Sunday, providing a much needed ‘out of hours’ service. Kooth is accessible from any device that connects to wifi, allowing young people to seek support at a time and location that is suitable for them. Kooth is also so much more than just having chat sessions. Young people can get peer-to-peer support, as well as get involved with activities designed to improve emotional wellbeing and resilience. We allow young people to share their experiences safely, as everything contributed to the community be that a comment, a magazine article or a discussion forum is thoroughly pre[1]moderated by the online team before it’s published so that we can guarantee there won’t be any trolling, bullying or judgement – they also won’t be allowed to share any personal details with each other. You can also keep a mood-tracking journal, set and track goals and engage in live text-based discussions on the website. Kooth can be used as a sole means of counselling and support, or it can be used alongside another service as an additional tool of support if you’re already receiving counselling. There is no such thing as a problem that is too big or too small at Kooth. Our team reflects all communities, identities and walks of life, so no matter what issue you come to us with there is somebody at Kooth who can and will help.