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Shine Cymru - Family support services

Last updated: 07/03/2024
Family support services This resource can use the Welsh language
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What we do

Shine Cymru provide specialist support, advice and information throughout the life of anyone living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, as well as to parents, families, carers and professional health and social care staff.

Shine's Support and Development workers can be contacted to provide support, information and advice on / to:
• Benefits, finances and funding
• Bowel and bladder issues, incontinence, staying healthy (via our medical advisors)
• Shine’s Home Delivery service for continence products
• Local support groups, events, peer support through online groups such as Shine 40plus
• Education for members attending schools, colleges and universities (via our education advisor)
• Folic acid and pregnancy advice
• Support for carers / parents who look after someone with spina bifida and/ or hydrocephalus
• Professionals including GP’s, health and social care staff, employers, schools, colleges about how these conditions can be managed.

Who do we support

Anyone who has spina bifida and / or hydrocephalus
Parents who have a child with spina bifida / and or hydrocephalus
Carers and families who live with or care for someone with spina bifida and/ or hydrocephalus.

Professionals providing support such as health and social care staff, educational staff, employers
Anyone who is expecting a baby with spina bifida

Is there a charge to use this service?

No

Can anyone use this service?

Anyone can contact us directly.

Service details for this family support services

Language: English with use of bilingual elements

  • Can provide specialist support for families of children with disabilities / additional needs No
     
  • Relevant staff have a valid current DBS? Yes

 Address

 You can send post here:

Shine Cymru
Po Box 7008
Cardiff
CF15 5EF

 Opening times

Monday - Friday 9.00am -5.00pm

Where do we provide our service?

We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information within the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this information. The contributors themselves maintain their own information and they welcome feedback about the accuracy of the information they provide. Those accessing it are advised to take reasonable steps to consider its content before acting upon it. This could include seeking professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information within our website.

Please note that the results found when searching in English or Welsh on the English and Welsh sides of the website (www.dewis.wales or www.dewis.cymru) will sometimes differ. Providers can (subject to rules around language standards that apply to some provision) choose to enter their information in English only, in Welsh only, or bilingually. Whilst we try to use the technology within the site to limit the impact of their choice, both terminology and the structure of the languages mean that differences in the results produced is sometimes inevitable.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links are provided for your information only and should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We reserve the right to reject or remove links to any website if we find the site content inappropriate.

For more information please refer to the full terms and conditions.

Find more well-being information at www.dewis.wales

We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information within the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this information. The contributors themselves maintain their own information and they welcome feedback about the accuracy of the information they provide. Those accessing it are advised to take reasonable steps to consider its content before acting upon it. This could include seeking professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information within our website.

Please note that the results found when searching in English or Welsh on the English and Welsh sides of the website (www.dewis.wales or www.dewis.cymru) will sometimes differ. Providers can (subject to rules around language standards that apply to some provision) choose to enter their information in English only, in Welsh only, or bilingually. Whilst we try to use the technology within the site to limit the impact of their choice, both terminology and the structure of the languages mean that differences in the results produced is sometimes inevitable.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links are provided for your information only and should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We reserve the right to reject or remove links to any website if we find the site content inappropriate.

For more information please refer to the full terms and conditions.