DPPi Website - Some Useful Links
Useful Links below are listed under:
Please note that organisations, phone numbers and websites can change rapidly,
so if you are unable to find a particular company from their details here,
these may have changed and please try directory enquiries and/or an internet
search, rather than contacting DPPi - our latest information is provided
here.
Disabled Parents Websites (UK)
Disabled Parents & Projects Websites (International)
- Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT) - Various resources relevant
to parents with disabilities in Canada. Also run the Parenting Network -
a resource and support network. - http://www.cilt.ca/Parenting/PDN.htm
- Parents with Disabilities online - Useful website for information on disabled
parenting. Also host the Parent Empowerment Network, an international peer
support e-mail network of disabled parents - http://www.disabledparents.net
- Project Star, The Parents with Disabilities Project - provides information,
a referral and advocacy service, a resource library and an adaptive parenting
equipment programme. http://trfn.clpgh.org/star
- Through the Looking Glass - the USA National Resource Centre for parents
with disabilities, provides information, adaptive baby equipment, legal
advocacy and support - http://www.lookingglass.org/
Disability Websites (UK)
- Disability Alliance - Aims to improve the living standards of disabled
people by breaking the link between poverty and disability. Tel: (Voice
and Minicom) 020 7247 8776, Rights Advice Line Tel: 020 7247 8763, Website:
http://www.disabilityalliance.org
- Disability Equipment Register - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ae208/
- Disability Gateshead - http://www.disabilitygateshead.org.uk
- recommended by disabled parents as a useful website, with good links and
"how to" booklets, including "the Rough Guide to Independent Living" publication
- Disability Wales - General Information regarding disability Tel: (+44)
029 2088 7325, Website: http://www.dwac.demon.co.uk - Also directory
of services in Wales at http://www.enablement.co.uk
- Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) - A national UK charity, helping disabled
people to live a more independent life. Helpline Telephone 0845 130 9177,
Textphone 020 7432 8009 - http://www.dlf.org.uk
- Disability Rights Commission - The Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
is an independent body, established by Act of Parliament to eliminate discrimination
against disabled people and promote equality of opportunity. Helpline Telephone
08457 622 633 Textphone 08457 622 644 - http://www.drc-gb.org
- Greater London Action on Disability (GLAD) - Providing information, advice
and training and campaigning for the rights of disabled Londoners. Information
Telephone 020 7346 5800 x 43 - http://www.glad.org.uk
- National Centre for Independent Living - Tel: 0207 587 1663, Website:
http://www.ncil.org.uk
- Online shop selling Mobility aids, disability equipment and daily living
aids - Website: http://www.benefitsnowshop.co.uk/index.htm
- Queen Elizabeth Foundation - Includes Banstead Mobility Centre, Useful
Resources & Information, Tel: 01372 841100, Website: http://www.qfed.org.uk
- RADAR - UK's campaigning and advisory disability body, run by and for
disabled people - Telephone 020 7 250 3222 - Website: http://www.radar.org.uk
- Ricability - provide useful equipment guides - http://www.ricability.org.uk
- Skill - National Bureau for Students with Disabilities - national charity
promoting opportunities for disabled people in post-16 education, training
and employment - Information Service Telephone 08457 622 633, Textphone
08457 622 644 - http://www.skill.org.uk
- UK Self-Help Groups Online Index - http://http://www.ukselfhelp.info/
- Your Able - Information, products and services for disabled people - Website:
http://www.yourable.com
- Department of Health - a Practical Guide for Disabled People or Carers
- tells you where to find information, services and equipment if you are
a disabled person, including if you have mental health problems - Website
- http://www.doh.gov.uk/disabledguide/
Parenting Websites (UK)
- Advisory Centre for Education - Independent national advice centre for
parents - Tel: 0808 800 5793, Website: http://www.ace-ed.org.uk
- Contact a Family - for families with disabled children - Helpline Tel:
0808 808 3555 or Textphone 0808 808 3556 Website: http://www.cafamily.org.uk
- Fatherhood - UK's National Information Centre for Fatherhood - Tel: 020
7920 9491- Website: http://www.fathersdirect.com
- Gingerbread - Lone Parents Membership Organisation, with local groups
and useful information - Advice Line Tel: 0800 018 4318, Website: http://www.gingerbread.org.uk
- Grandparent's Federation - Organisations works on behalf of grandparents
losing contact with their grandchildren or caring for their grandchildren
due to court orders, etc. Tel: 01279 444964, Website: http://www.grandparents-federation.org.uk
- Lone Parents - Website: http://www.lone-parents.org.uk
- National Family & Parenting Institute (NFPI) - Independent UK charity,
working to support families in bringing up their children, to promote the
wellbeing of families and to make society more family friendly. Telephone
020 7 424 3460 - http://www.nfpi.org
- NSPCC - general parenting information section - Website: http://www.nspcc.org.uk
- Parentline Plus - UK registered charity which offers support to anyone
parenting a child - Telephone 0808 800 222, Textphone 0800 783 6783 - http://www.parentlineplus.org.uk
- Parenting Education & Support Forum (PESF) - has over 1,000 members
across the UK and abroad, including parents and professionals - http://www.parenting-forum.org.uk
- Pink Parents - A UK-wide charity of, for and by lesbian, gay and bisexual
parents, parents-to-be and their children - Tel: 08701 273 274, Website:
http://www.pinkparents.org.uk
- Trust for the Study of Adolescence - http://www.tsa.org.uk
Other UK websites - general internet information
resources on Parenting:
Some Condition Specific UK Websites
With information detailed (where known) on pregnancy & parenting:
Deafness:
- British Deaf Association - Text Phone: 0870 770 3300, Voice phone: 0800
6522 965, Fax: 020 7496 9539, Videophone: helpline@bda.org.uk,
Website: http://www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk
- National Deaf Childrens Society - Helpline tel: 0808 800 8880 (voice and
text), Website: http://www.ncds.org.uk
- Royal Association for Deaf People - Tel: 01255 830219 (voice), 01255 831219
(fax), 01255 831186 (text), Website: http://www.royaldeaf.org.uk
- Royal National Institute for the Deaf - Tel: 0808 808 0123, Textphone:
0808 808 9000, Fax: 020 7296 8199, Website: http://www.rnid.org.uk
- Deaf Parenting Project - http://www.deafparentproject.org.uk
Learning Difficulties:
Mental Health:
- MIND - leading mental health charity - Information line - Tel: 08457 660
163, Website: http://www.mind.org.uk
- SANE - one of the UK's leading charities concerned with improving the
lives of everyone affected by mental illness - Saneline Tel: 0845 767 8000,
Website: http://www.sane.org.uk
Visual Impairment:
- Royal National Institute for the Blind - Tel: 0845 766 9999, Website:
http://www.rnib.org.uk - Produce various publications,
including a monthly magazine "You and Your Child" for blind and partially
sighted parents and parents-to-be this magazine features informative articles
on all aspects of bringing up a child, from pregnancy to starting school
- available monthly in braille, on email and by disk.
- Action for blind people - Tel: 020 7635 4800, Fax: 020 7635 4900, Website:
http://www.afbp.org
- Henshaws Society for Blind People - Tel: 0161 872 1234, Fax: 0161 848
9889, Website: http://www.henshaws.org.uk
- Who do I contact? - publication for Visually Impaired People Website:
http://www.bluefury.freeserve.co.uk/
Physical & Neurological Conditions:
AIDS & HIV:
Ankylosing Spondylitis:
- National UK Society (NASS) - A self-help society for people with AS, their
families and friends - website gives advice regarding pregnancy and AS -
Tel: 01435 873527 Website http://www.nass.co.uk
Aphasia:
- Speakability - support charity for those with asphasia - a life-disabling
condition usually caused by stroke or head injury - Tel: Information Service:
080 8808 9572, Website: http://www.speakability.org.uk
Arthritis:
Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) Group (TAG):
Ataxia:
- The Ataxia Group of Great Britain & Northern Ireland - Website provides
information on Friedreich's & Cerebellar ataxias - produce leaflet on
"Pregnancy & Parenthood" - Helpline Tel: 020 7 820 3900, Website: http://www.ataxia.org.uk
Back Problems:
- BackCare, The Charity for Healthier Backs - Provide Equipment & Information
- Including a publication "Back Pain, Pregnancy and Children" - Tel: (44)
20 8977 5474, Website: http://www.backcare.org.uk
Brittle Bones/Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI):
Cancer:
- A directory of self help and support groups is available online at http://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancerinformation
- Macmillan Cancerline Tel: 0808 8082020
- Breast Cancer Care - Have a factsheet written for women whose breast cancer
has been diagnosed during pregnancy or lactation. It covers issues such
as diagnosis, treatment, breast-feeding, pregnancy after breast cancer,
termination of pregnancy. Also have a publication about breast cancer and
parenting where individual parents describe their experiences with advice
on what, when and how to tell children - Tel: 0808 800 6000, Website: http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk
- Lymphoma Association - have a booklet providing advice and suggestions
on how to talk to a child when his or her parent has cancer - Tel: 0808
808 5555 Website: http://www.lymphoma.org.uk
- CancerBACUP - have a booklet on What do I tell the children? - written
for parents with cancer. Large print version available on request.Tel: 0808
800 1234, Website: http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk
Cerebral Palsy:
Cystic Fibrosis:
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT):
Diabetes:
Epilepsy:
Fibromyalgia:
Heart Disease:
Haemophilia:
- Haemophilia Society - provides support for families affected by haemophilia,
von Willebrand's disease and other bleeding disorders - produce a publication
on pregnancy - Tel: 0800 018 6068, Website: http://www.haemophilia.org.uk
Limbless:
ME:
Multiple Sclerosis:
- MS Resource Centre - provide information and publications, including MS,
Pregnancy & Parenthood book by Judy Graham - Tel: 0800 783 0518, Website:
http://www.msrc.co.uk
- MS Trust - Produce information packs and publications, including My Mums
Got MS - Tel: 01462 476700, Website: http://www.mstrust.org.uk
- MS Society - Local Support branches and National Centre, Produce Publications,
some downloadable from their website, including a Pregnancy Factsheet &
Has your Mum or Dad got MS - Helpline Tel: 0808 800 8000 http://www.mssociety.org.uk
Osteoporosis:
- National Osteoporosis Society (UK) - Membership organisation with Information
publications & self help groups - produce publication on "Osteoporosis
of Pregnancy" - Helpline Tel: 0845 450 0230, Website: http://www.nos.org.uk
Parkinsons Disease:
Polio:
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome:
- Verity is the self-help organisation for women whose lives are affected
by Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) - Website: http://www.verity-pcos.org.uk
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome:
- RSD UK - RSD, CRPS type I or CRPS type II, Sudecks Atrophy, Causalgia,
Allodynia, Hand Shoulder Syndrome, etc. - voluntary non-profit making organisation,
providing support - Tel: 01780 410884, Website: http://www.rsd-crps.co.uk
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus:
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus National Association - Provides Information
Leaflets downloadable online, including "Spina Bifida & Pregnancy" -
Tel: 01733 555988, Website: http://www.asbah.com
Spinal Injuries:
Stroke:
- Different Strokes - Support groups for stroke survivors under retirement
age - Helpline Tel: 0845 130 7172, Website: http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk
- Stroke Association - support and information for people who have had stokes,
their families and carers - produce a booklet on strokes and younger adults
which contains pregnancy & parenting information - Tel: 0845 30 33 100
http://www.stroke.org.uk
Symphis Pubis Diastasis:
- SPD-UK - Support group with Information Publications, including "Ante-Natal
& Post-Natal Information" - Tel: 01843 587356, Website: http://www.spd-uk.org
- Pelvic Pain Group - Offers Peer support and information sheets - Tel:
01235 820921, Website http://www.pelvicpartnership.org.uk
Thalidomide:
- The Thalidomide Society - offers information, support and advice and have
a self-help support network of disabled parents - Tel: 020 8868 5309 - 24
hour helpline, no website
- The Thalidomide Trust - Tel: 01480 474074, Website: http://www.thalidomide.org.uk
See also disability websites above, which include many useful links
Advice:
See also disability websites above (who often offer advice on benefits
and services)
- Citizens Advice Bureau - Website: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk - If you
need information and can't get to a Citizen's advice Bureau, just go to
adviceguide. It covers everything from housing, debt and the legal system
to tax, benefits, family matters and consumer rights
- Family Rights Group - Offer Advice & Information - Tel: 0800 731 1696,
Website: http://www.frg.org.uk
Adoption:
Adoption UK (formerly Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services)
- Self help support group, Helpline Tel: 0870 7700 450, Website: http://www.adoptionuk.org.uk
Family Rights Group - Offer Advice & Information - Tel: 0800 731 1696,
Website: http://www.frg.org.uk
Domestic Violence:
- Domestic Violence Intervention Project - offers counselling & support
- Tel: 020 8748 6512 - Website: http://www.dvip.org
- Refuge Domestic Violence - offer sheltered housing for abused women and
their children, Helpline Tel: 0870 5995 443
- Women's Aid - offer helpline, support, legal advice, information - Tel:
08457 023468, Website: http://www.womensaid.org.uk
- Muslim Women's Helpline -offer phone and personal counselling, information
and advice - Tel: 020 8904 8193, Website: http://www.amrnet.demon.co.uk/related/mwhl
Housing
Legal, Rights & Family Advice Agencies:
Discrimination:
- Disability Rights Commission - independent body set up by the Government
to help secure civil rights for disabled people -Tel: 08457 622 633, Textphone
08457 622 644, Website: http://www.drc-gb.org/drc
- Discrimination Law Association - membership association for individuals
and organisations using the law to fight discrimination - Website: http://www.discrimination-law.org.uk
- Equal Opportunities Commission - works to end sex discrimination in the
UK Tel: 08456 015901, Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk
- Commission for Racial Equality - works to end racial discrimination in
the UK, free legal advice and information - Tel: 0207 828 7022, Website:
http://www.cre.gov.uk
General - Legal & Advice:
- Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) - National advice centre for parents
regarding education - Tel: 0808 8005793, Website: http://www.ace-ed.org.uk
- Community Legal Service - 0845 608 1122 - http://www.justask.org.uk
- government organisation giving information on where and how to access
legal help in England and Wales, available in several languages
- Citizen's Advice Bureau - 020 7833 2181 - http://www.nacab.org.uk
- free legal advice, you can get details of your local Bureau from the telephone
directory
- Disability Law Service - 020 7831 8031 - http://www.mkurrein.co.uk/work/disablaw.html
- free legal advice
- Law Centres Federation - can refer you to your local law centre for free
legal advice, Tel: 020 7387 8570, Website; http://www.lawcentres.org.uk
- Other Legal & Advice:
- Grandparent's Federation - Organisations works on behalf of grandparents
caring for their grandchildren due to court orders, or seeking to get court
orders - produce publication "Jettison the Jargon" a user friendly guide
to terms used by Social Services - Tel: 01279 444964, Website: http://www.grandparents-federation.org.uk
- Rights of Women - Website offering links to other useful websites - http://www.row.org.uk/links.html
Parenting - Legal & Advice:
- Children's Legal Centre - advice and information service covering all
aspects of law and policy affecting children and young people - Tel: 01206
873820, Website: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/clc
- Churches Child Protection Advisory Services - offer advice and support
to churches, organisations & individuals - Helpline Tel: 0845 120 4551,
Website: http://www.ccpas.co.uk
- Family Rights Group - offer advice & information - Tel: 0800 731 1696,
Website: http://www.frg.org.uk
- National Council for One Parent Families Lone Parent - offer advice and
information - Helpline Tel: 0800 018 5026, Website: http://www.oneparentfamilies.org.uk
- Gingerbread - offer advice for lone parents - Tel: 0800 018 4318, Website:
http://www.gingerbread.org.uk
- CAFCASS - Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service - Tel:
020 7210 4400, Website: http://www.cafcass.gov.uk
- Lord Chancellor's Department - Tel: 020 7210 8500, Website: http://www.lcd.gov.uk
- Parentline Plus - national organisation for parents, including helpline
for parents under stress and parenting classes - Tel: 0808 800 2222, Website:
http://www.parentlineplus.org.uk
- Solicitors Family Law Association - Tel: 01689 850227, Website: http://www.sfla.org.uk
Medical:
Pain:
Relationships:
- National Family Mediation - network of over 60 local not-for-profit Family
Mediation Services in England and Wales offering help to couples, Tel: 020
7485 8809 - Website: http://www.nfm.u-net.com
- One Plus One - Marriage and Partnership Research Organisation - Tel: +44
(0)20 7841 3660, Website: http://www.oneplusone.org.uk
- Relate - See telephone directory under 'Relate' or the Yellow Pages under
'Counselling and Advice' for your local Relate centre. Relate Head Office
Tel: 01788 573241, Website http://www.relate.org.uk
- SPOD - the Association to aid the Sexual & Personal Relationships
of People with a Disability - Tel: 0207 607 9191, Website: http://www.spod-uk.org
Some Pregnancy & Childbirth Information Websites (UK)
Birth:
- Birthchoice UK - Where to have your baby - Website: http://www.birthchoiceuk.com
- Homebirth - useful general information Website: http://www.homebirth.org.uk/homebirthcontents.htm
- Birth Partners:
- NCT - Information about birth partners & doulas - direct website link
at http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/article.asp?article=101
- Doulas UK - voluntary network of doulas - Website: http://www.doula.org.uk/
- British Doulas - Tel: 020 7244 6053, Website: http://www.britishdoulas.co.uk/
- Homebirth Organisation - Website: http://www.homebirth.org.uk/doula.htm
- Smallfolk - In partnership with Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital,
a UK-based baby and child website with information on childcare, pregnancy,
paediatrics, parenting and motherhood - Website: http://www.smallfolk.com
- Twins & Multiple Births - TAMBA (Twins & Multiple Birth Association)
- Tel: 01732 868 000, Website: http://www.tamba.org.uk
- National Childbirth Trust - Membership Organisation, Classes & Groups,
Useful Information, Publications & Equipment, Tel: 0870 7703236, Enquiry
Line: 0870 444 8707, Breastfeeding Line: 0870 444 8708, Website: http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/
- NHS Direct - Tel: 0845 606 4647, Website: http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence - Website: http://www.nice.org.uk
Childcare:
Midwives:
Miscarriage:
Babies Names:
Occupational Therapists:
Physiotherapists:
Obstetricians & Gynaecologists:
Baby Feeding Websites (UK)
Membership Feeding Organisations:
- Association of Breastfeeding Mothers - Useful information on website and
also downloadable information sheets and local support groups of members
- Helpline Tel: 020 7813 1481, Website: http://www.abm.org.uk
- Breastfeeding Network - Information, Leaflets, personal stories, articles,
etc. Supporterline - 0870 900 8787, Website: http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/
- La Leche - Breastfeeding information, local groups, regular meetings,
equipment, publications, etc. Helpline Tel: 0845 120 2918, Website: http://www.laleche.org.uk/
- NCT - National Childbirth Trust - detailed information about breast and
bottle feeding, personal stories, local groups, feeding twins, etc. - Breastfeeding
Telephone Line: 0870 444 8708, Website: http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/article.asp?article=85
Other Useful Feeding Information Websites:
- Useful FAQs and links to other websites - http://www.breastfeeding.co.uk/
- Useful information - how to breastfeed, Q&As, useful links, personal
stories, etc. Website; http://www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk/
- Information, including a visual guide to how to breastfeed - Website:
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/breastfeeding/
- Bounty guide to pregnancy and breastfeeding, etc. - useful simple cartoon
characters and bullet point information, etc. - Website: http://www.breastfeedingguide.co.uk/
- Ricability - provide useful disability equipment guides, including a guide
for disabled parents on bottles, warmers & sterilisers - http://www.ricability.org.uk
- TAMBA - association for twins and multiple births - includes feeding information
Helpline - 0870 770 3305 or Freephone Tamba Twinline 0800
138 0509, Website: http://www.tamba.org.uk/html/faq.htm
Parenting Equipment
Adaptive baby equipment:
There is very little adaptive baby care equipment available commercially.
The following websites provide details of mainstream babycare equipment, some
of which may have features of interest to disabled parents.
Mainstream UK Suppliers & mail-order catalogues
Listed below in A/Z company/organization name order are some details of baby
& child equipment UK suppliers - listed are telephone numbers to order
catalogues and company website links - often to searchable product catalogues
online.
Specific equipment and products which might be useful to disabled parents
is also listed - for further information see the DPPi Practical Information
Sheets giving tips and details of useful equipment for Bathing, Nappy Changing
and Choosing Cots & Beds and the Ricability Guides for Disabled Parents
on Bottles, Warmers & Sterilizers, Safety Gates & Baby Carriers -
Ricability Tel: +44 (0)20 7427 2460, Website: http://www.ricability.org.uk/reports/report-childcare.htm
Please note that catalogues and equipment change rapidly, so if you are unable
to find a particular company from their details here, please try directory
enquiries and/or an internet search. If you are able to contact them, but
they have stopped manufacturing a particular piece of equipment mentioned,
please still ask if they make a similar product or can refer you elsewhere.
The Baby Products Association produce an annual Year Book - which covers
importers, distributors and manufacturers of buggies, prams, cots, feeding
products, toys, bathtime, car accessories, furniture, clothing products and
all sorts of nursery accessories and it includes the British, European, International
and UN standards and other useful contacts - 144 page baby product supplier
directory is available for £15.00 including post and packing - Tel: 01296
747551 - order online from http://www.baby-marketing.co.uk/suppliers/index.htm
DPPi welcomes further information regarding useful equipment for disabled
parents - please email this to info@dppi.org.uk - thank you.
- Asda - Tel: 0500 100055, Website: http://www.asda.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - See Ricability Guide
- Avent - Tel: 0800 289064, Website: http://www.aventbaby.com
Useful Equipment includes Bottles, Warmers & Sterilizers - See Ricability
Guide
- Argos - Tel: 0870 600 3030, Website: http://www.argos.co.uk
Useful information, recommended by Mother & Baby magazine, includes
Argos Deluxe Stroller - easy to collapse and very light
- Baby b free - Tel: 020 8731 7776, Website: http://www.babybfree.com
Useful Equipment includes bottle warmers & sterilizers - See Ricability
Guide
- Babies R Us - Tel: 0845 786 9778, Website: http://www.babiesrus.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottle warmers & sterilizers - & Baby
carriers - See Ricability Guides; Lille Bedside Cot with slide underneath
side & Phillips Digital Monitor - see DPPi Choosing Cots &
Beds Information Sheet - also Portland Infant Carrier car seat recommended
by Mother & Baby magazine - also High Chairs - Cube Highchair that converts
to toddler table (note this flexible design recommended by disabled parent)
- Baby Bjorn - Tel: 0870 1200 543, Website: http://www.babybjorn.com
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - see Ricability guide - also Feeding,
their information states easy to use plate and spoon set, feeding spoons
and bibs
- BabyCare Direct - Tel: 0870 4422580; Website: http://www.babycaredirect.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes BabyDen adjustable playpens, with opening
gates
- BabyDux - Tel: 01925 269933, Website: http://www.babydux.com
Useful Equipment includes BabyDux bath seat, with integral safety straps
& LCD temperature guage (see DPPi Bathing Sheet)
- Baby Dan - Tel: 01704 537843, Website: http://www.babydan.com
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates & baby carriers - see Ricability
Guides; Bed-Guards - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information
Sheet - also BabyDen Playpen, room divider and fireguard, very versatile/flexible
playpen for use indoors or out, supplied in 5 clip-together sections and
one gate section for you to decide how you want to install, includes removable
water-proof mattress and padded bump-proof edges, can also convert to a
playhouse later with additional tent/playhouse addition
- Babytec - Tel: 01258 459554, Website: http://www.babytec.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles, Warmers & Sterilizers - See Ricability
Guide
- Baby Trekker - Website http://www.babytrekker.com
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - soft front/back - see Ricability
Guide
- Bettacare - Tel: 01293 851896, Website: http://www.bettacare.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - See Ricability Guide
- Beldray - Tel: 01902 353500, Website: http://www.beldray.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - see Ricability Guide
- Bettacare - Tel: 01293 851896, Website: http://www.bettacare.co.uk
- Better Baby Sling - Tel: 01923 444 442 - Website http://www.betterbabysling.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - see Ricability Guide
- Bill Amberg - Tel: 0207 727 3560, Website: http://www.billamberg.com
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - front 2-way & hip sling
- see Ricability Guide
- Bitteswell Employment Alliance - Tel: 024 7667 4817, Website: http://www.bealift.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes the Bealift Shower Hammock - see DPPi
Bathing Information Sheet
- Blooming Marvellous - Tel: 0870 751 8944, Website: http://www.bloomingmarvellous.co.uk
- Brevi - Tel: 01630 638978, Website: http://www.brevi.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Changing Stations & Baby Baths - see DPPi
Bathing Information Sheet; Safety Gates - & Baby Carriers, front 2-way
- see Ricability Guides - also Big highchair - adjustable, on wheels
- Bristol Maid - Tel: 01258 451338, Website: www:bristolmaid.com
Useful Equipment includes Variable Height Automatic Cribs, some with cut-away
perspex removable panels & the Garrow Crib, which clips onto bedframe
- see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Britax - Tel: +44 (0) 1264 386027, Website: http://www.britax.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Solo Travel System - infant carrier &
pushchair, easy to use, highly recommended to DPPi by a parent with
use of only one arm - also Primux Teutonia pram recommended in BabyWorld
tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk)
- Car Seats - Rock-a-Tot Deluxe Car Seat recommended star buy by Mother
& Baby magazine - also Practicale pram scored 1st for versatility
in BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk)
- Bugaboo - Tel: Neths (+31) 0 20 4623940, Website: http://www.bugaboo.nl
Useful Equipment from Bugaboo Information includes Frog Pram
- Bump to 3 - Tel: 01548 854444 (Grobag), Website: http://www.bumpto3.com
Useful Equipment includes polyester-filled nursing, feeding & support
pillows - for breast or bottle feeding and for supporting the baby as he
learns to sit up
- Bushbaby - Tel: 0161 474 7097, Website: http://www.bush-baby.com
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - front 2-way & framed back
- see Ricability Guide
- Bruin (Toys R Us) - see also BabiesRUs - Tel: 0800 038 8889, Website:
http://www.toysrus.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - see Ricability Guide; also
High Chair - Mother & Baby original best design, simple fold, multiple
height positions, easy to assemble & adjust
- Carrying Kind - Tel: 01992 651717, Website: http://www.thecarryingkind.com
Specialise in natural baby slings and baby carriers
- Cheeky Rascals - Tel: 01428 682488, Website: http://www.cheekyrascals.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Bath - see DPPi Bathing Information
Sheet; Safety Gates - & Bottles & Sterilizers - & Baby Carriers,
front parent facing, 2-way, framed back - see all 3 Ricability Guides -
also from Cheeky Rascal information - Prams Kiddiboard & Buggboards
for transporting babies and toddlers together - Tip-me-not attachment for
buggies - Also High Chairs - HandySitt Portable Chair 4 months to 7 years,
also with Travel bag & cushion
- Chester Care - Tel: 01623 722337, Website: http://www.homecraftabilityone.com
- Chicco - Tel: 01623 750 870, Website: http://www.chicco.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - Front 3-way - see Ricability
Guide - also Prams Chicco 2003 Trio scored first for comprehensive features
in BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk),
with parents comments "very easy to switch between uses so you can take
whichever travel option suits you best on the day"
- Childcare - Tel: 0161 427 8598, Website: http://www.childcareproducts.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles, Warmers & Sterilizers - see Ricability
Guide
- Clippasafe - Tel: 0115 921 1899 - Website: http://www.clippasafe.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - & Baby carriers, front
2-way - see Ricability Guides
- Connevans - Tel: 01737 247 571, Website: http://www.connevans.com
Useful Equipment includes the Nightingale vibrating baby alarm monitor
and baby pager systems - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information
Sheet
- Cosatto - Tel: 01268 722800 - Website: http://www.cosatto.com
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - & Baby Carriers - see Ricability
Guide; Chantelle Cot with roll-under drop side - see DPPi Choosing
Cots & Beds Information Sheet - also from their information - Prams
& Travel Systems - Kiwi & Chassis & Zippy systems are easy to
use and sturdy, with the EF215 Easy Clip Chassis stating easy one handed
fold - also High Chairs, Senator model freestands when folded, simple side
action to adjust
- Cotswold Cots - Tel: 01933 842885 (no known website)
Make bed/cots and playpens with removable sides and adjustable for easy
access - recommended by a disabled parent
- Earthwise - Tel: 01908 260 481, Website: http://www.earthwisebaby.com
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Slings - see Ricability Guides
- Evenflo - Website http://www.evenflo.com
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - & Baby Carriers, front and back
carriers - see Ricability Guide
- Fledglings - Tel: 0845 458 1124, Website: http://www.fledglings.org.uk
Useful Equipment includes the Box Bed, height adjustable, electronically
powered childs cot with see-through sides, with one side opening as three-doors
- see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Gordon Productions - Tel: 0161 740 9979, Website: http://www.lotsofbabies.com
Useful equipment from their information includes Quad pushchair &
Triple Model pushchair for transporting two or three babies/toddlers together
- Graco - Tel: 0870 9090 50, Website: http://www.graco.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bassinet Travel Cots - see DPPi Choosing
Cots & Beds Information Sheet - also from their catalogue - also Prams
very lightweight prams easily folded with one hand only - Prams Graco Citisport
& Metrosport pushchair and travel systems, extremely light and fold
easily with one hand and Citisport can be carried by strap over one shoulder
- also Graco Sterling pushchair (forward facing, fold-flat pushchair) scored
first for value in BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk), from their
catalogue most lightweight newborn pram option with umbrella folding Duo
Sport multiple traveller system for transporting more than one baby/toddler
- also Autobaby car seat recommended by Mother & Baby magazine
- Great Little Trading Company - GLTC - Tel: 0870 850 6000, Website: http://www.gltc.co.uk
From GLTC information - useful equipment includes - Along for the Ride,
Kiddyboard & Buggboard - various ways of transporting babies/toddlers
and other children together - also Pushchair Tricycle - High Chairs - Chair
Lift, adjust dining seat heights for children and Fold Up tranportable booster
chair, 6 months to 4 years
- Huggababy - Tel: 01874 711 629, Website: http://www.huggababy.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Slings - see Ricability Guide
- Huntleigh Healthcare - Tel: 01582 413104, Website: http://www.huntleigh-healthcare.com
Useful Equipment includes Height Adjustable Cot, Electronically powered
- see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Hydrachem - Tel: 01403 784332, Website: http://www.hydrachem.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Sterilisers - see Ricability Guide
- Interben Ltd - Tel: 020 8 731 9666, Website: http://www.interben.com
Useful Equipment includes Bath Seats (moulded plastic bath inserts)
- see DPPi Bathing Information Sheet
- Jo Jo Maman Bebe - Tel: 0870 160 8820, Website: http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes the Bedside Crib with a flipdown side &
eighteen height positions & Samsonite Travel Cots - see DPPi
Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet - also Large Feeding Pillow -
also from Jo Jo Maman Bebe information - KiddyBoard & Buggyboard for
transporting young children as well as the baby/toddler in the pram/buggy
- Johnston - Tel: 028 9077 0779, Website: http://www.johnstonprams.co.uk
BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk), Jane Matrix
Carrerra scored first for all-round versatility, with a choice of six chassis
styles and a lie-flat carrycot-set unit which can fit into the car as a
car set or car-safe carrycot, parents say "I was really worried about my
newborn sitting in a car seat - this is the ideal solution"
- Karrimor - Tel: 01254 893 133, Website: http://www.karrimor.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes baby carriers - see Ricability Guide
- Kelty - Tel: 01395 443 789, Website: http://www.kelty.com
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front 2-way, framed back -
see Ricability Guide
- KinderKam - Tel: 020 8 262 3222, Website: http://www.kinderkam.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes KinderKam Baby/Child Monitor - sound activated
&/or linked to television - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds
Information Sheet
- Kids in Comfort (Sling Easy) - Tel: 0118 940 4942, Website: http://www.slingeasy.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Slings - see Ricability Guide
- Kipling - Tel: 01233 626 875, Website: http://www.kipling.com
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Soft front/back - see Ricability
Guide
- La Leche League International - Website: http://www.lalecheleague.org/catalog.html
Useful Equipment includes special feeding pillows
- Lindam - Tel: 08701 118118 - Website: http://www.lindam.com
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates & Bottles, Warmers, Sterilisers
- see Ricability Guides
- Lolly - Little Green Earthlets - Tel: 01825 873301, Website: http://www.earthlets.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - & Baby Carriers - see Ricability
Guides
- Mclaren - Tel: 01327 841 310, Website: http://www.maclarenbaby.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front 2-way - see Ricability
Guide - also Prams - from their information & recommended by "Mother
& Baby" magazine, Techo buggy, with turn-in foam grip handles for extra
parent comfort, also Twin Traveller multiple buggies (for use with more
than one baby/toddler); also Vogue 1st in BabyWorld tests (see
http://www.babyworld.co.uk), Vogue most
lightweight newborn pram option with umbrella folding, parents comments
"incredibly lightweight", "easy to put up and down - I suffer from arthritis
in my hands so this was a fabulous plus", also rated highly at http://www.ciao.co.uk
family & baby consumer reviews
- Macpac - Tel: 0131 665 1466, Website: http://www.macpac.co.nz
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front 2-way & framed back
- see Ricability Guide
- MAM - Tel: 020 8943 8880, Website: http://www.mamuk.com
Useful Equipment includes Bottles & Sterilisers - see Ricability
Guide
- Mamas & Papas Ltd - Tel: 01484 438222, Website: http://www.mamasandpapas.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - see Ricability Guide; Jacki
Changing Station - see DPPi Bathing Information Sheet; High Chair
(adjustable, on castors); Rocking Moses Basket/Carrycot Stand - see DPPi
Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet - also from catalogue information
- Pilko pushchairs say easy, one clip fittings (also recommended by disabled
parents to DPPi), also Ultima 3 in1 scored first all round for babies
comfort in BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk)
- also High Chairs - Prima Pappa & Prima Pappa Roller, which had top
marks from Babyworld tests, on castors, easy to use mechanism, seven different
adjustable heights so can use as high and low chair, etc.
- Mangar - Tel: 01544 267674, Website: http://www.mangar.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Mangar Elevating Maternity Cot - height adjustable
via remote handset - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information
Sheet
- Mothercare - Tel: 08453 304030, Website: http://www.mothercare.com
Useful Equipment includes Shaped Sponge and Framed Bath Supports &
Bath Floats & SupaBath & Bath Dresser - see DPPi Bathing
Information Sheet; Bassinette Travel Cost with raised level and changing
table - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet; Safety
Gates & Bottles, Warmers, Sterilisers - see Ricability Guides - also
from Mothercare information - Powetrack 3 wheeler baby travel system &
Mother&Baby magazine winner 2001/2 Urban Detour Pinnacle buggy, three
wheeler, handles bumpy ground well and easy fold, scored first for combining
off-road and around town use in BabyWorld tests (see http://www.babyworld.co.uk),
- Morrisons - Tel: 01274 615196, Website: http://www.morereasons.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - see Ricability Guide
- National Childbirth Trust Maternity Sales - Tel: 0870 112 1120, Website:
http://www.nctms.co.uk
Useful Information includes NCT Pop-up Cot - see DPPi Choosing
Cots & Beds Information Sheet; also Lap Sack & other Feeding Cushions
- NUK - Tel: 0845 3002467, Website: http://www.nukbaby.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - see Ricability Guide
- Perfectly Happy People - Tel: 0870 607 0545, Website: http://www.thebabycatalogue.com
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front parent facing, 2-way,
soft back - see Ricability Guide
- PHP Baby Catalogue - Tel: 0870 607 0545, Website: http://www.thebabycatalogue.com
Useful Equipment includes the Baby Bath Hammock (birth - 6 months),
where baby lies on a mesh hammock, supported in shallow water - see DPPi
Bathing Information Sheet - also from PHP Information - Bobby nursing support
cushion and other nursing pillows - also - Anti-tip bags for prams, pushchairs
and highchairs - pram & stroller tray nets - Pram & buggy Hitchhiker
seat & kiddiboard & buggboard for transporting both a baby and toddler
- High Chairs, portable three-in-one booster seat, reclining feeding seat,
adjustable high chair, high chair seat liners, etc. - also Feeding, has
useful suction bottom feeding bowl, aprons & waterproof bibs - also
Playpens, front opening (but not height adjustable)
- Philips - Tel: 020 8689 2166, Website: http://www.philips.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottle Warmers - see Ricability Guide
- Premaxx - Tel: 01647 440570, Website: http://www.easylives.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby-Bag & Baby-Bag Adventure Baby Carriers
- Puttnams - Tel: 01752 345678, Website: http://www.putnams.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes portable & inflatable special nursing
support cushion
- RNID - Tel: 01733 232607, Website: http://www.rnid.org.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bell Man Paging System, a home alerting system
- see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- R82 UK Ltd - Tel: 0121 421 6070, Website: http://www.R82.com
Useful Equipment includes Dolphin & Orca Bath Tubs - mounted on
height adjustable frames - see DPPi Bathing Information Sheet
- Safety 1st (Dorel Juvenile Group) - Tel: 01256 356756, Website:
http://www.safety1st.com
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - see Ricability Guide; Bed-Guards
- Cots, see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet - High
Chairs - fold-up booster seat, three levels, also deluxe fold-up booster
seat with tray and booster step stool
- SAVI - Tel: 01242 262 044, Website: http://www.savi.de (select English version)
Useful Equipment includes Mobel range of height adjustable costs - see DPPi
Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Scallywags - Tel: 0161 335 2500, Website: http://www.scallywagsbaby.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles & Sterilisers - see Ricability
Guide
- Scan Mobility - Tel: 01704 534483, Website: http://www.scanmobility.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes adjustable children's beds & Lasal Rehab
U shaped nursing pillows and M shaped twin nursing pillows, etc.
- Strata Products - Tel: 01773 510520, Website: http://www.strataproducts.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Comfi Bath & Comfi Bath Support - see
DPPi Bathing Information Sheet
- Superdrug - Tel: 0870 333 5666, Website: http://www.superdrug.com
Useful Equipment includes Bottles - see Ricability Guide
- Tefal - Tel: 0845 602 1454, Website: http://www.tefal.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottles & Sterilisers - see Ricability
Guide
- Tesco - Tel: 0870 6076060, Website: http://www.tesco.com
Useful Equipment includes Bottles & Sterilisers - & Baby Carriers,
front 2-way & framed back - see Ricability Guides - also recommended
by Mother & Baby magazine - Prams - Kidz Kargo Rustler Stroller, wide
stroller with three positions, collapses with ease - also various High Chairs,
boosters & clip on chair harness, etc.
- Theraposture - Tel: 01985 847788, Website: http://www.theraposture.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes range of height adjustable and fold-back sliding
door cots - see DPPi Choosing Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Thermos - http://www.thermos.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Bottle Warmers - see Ricability Guide
- Tomy - Tel: 023 8066 2600, Website - http://www.tomy.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Safety Gates - & Sterilizers - & Baby
Carriers, front, parent facing, 3-way, front/back soft, framed back - see
Ricability Guides; Baby Alarms & Bed-Guards - see DPPi Choosing
Cots & Beds Information Sheet
- Trend Europe Ltd - Tel: 01630 638 978, Website: http://www.brevi.co.uk
- Trubend - Tel: 01706 877 648, Website; http://www.trubend.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front, Framed back - see Ricability
Guide
- Urchin - Tel: 0870 720 3040, Website: http://www.urchin.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Front 2-way, Framed Back -
see Ricability Guide - also Playpens, Birch playpen, which has 3 base positions
and castors and wipe clean padded base, the base positions and height adjustable
flexibility make this very useful for those having difficulty with bending
and lifting, etc. (however, Urchin advise this very popular model which
is sold out until early 2004)
- Wilkinet - Tel: 01239 841 844, Website: http://www.wilkinet.co.uk
Useful Equipment includes Baby Carriers - Soft 4-way - see Ricability
Guide