Keep Safe
Keeping Safe
Keep safe – a guide to personal safety This easy-to-read booklet gives tips on keeping safe at home, personal safety while out and about, and how to deal with problems like harassment and mugging.
Be safe, be secure – your practical guide to crime prevention This booklet tells you how you can help reduce your risk of being a victim of crime. You can make yourself safer and protect your home, your family and your belongings by following some of these simple suggestions.
Keeping safe in your own home This leaflet is for people who fund their own personal care and support at home.
Home fire safety check
To see whether you qualify for a free home fire safety check and for information about how to reduce the risk of fire in your home, go to the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service website.
Pressure care
If you are concerned about pressure ulcers, speak to your GP or district nurse. These leaflets give advice on how to prevent pressure ulcers: React to red & What happens if you don’t move around enough
Scams
This leaflet gives advice on how to recognise and protect yourself from scams: Age UK Avoiding scams
Buy with confidence
All the businesses on the Buy with confidence website have been approved by Trading Standards to ensure that they operate in a legal, honest and fair way.
Stay safe online
a-beginners-guide-to-staying-safe-online.pdf is a guide by Age UK providing advice on how to stay safe online.
Empowering women to stay safe online is a guide by Facebook and Women's Aid
Gambling is taking part in a game or activity where you risk losing something, usually money, in order to try and win a prize. It is all down to chance and usually the odds are very much against you. The reason that people gamble initially is usually for entertainment. They then continue as it is exciting and to make money, although this rarely happens.
Worried about anyone experiencing harm from gambling or those affected by someone else's gambling
Common types of gambling include slot machines, lottery, scratch cards or through playing card games (e.g. poker, blackjack) with friends, visiting casinos or various forms of on-line betting. It can start off as harmless as just a one off, such as betting of a cup final football game or buying a charity scratch card but can get out of hand and become an obsession. If you are worried that gambling is getting out of hand, or are affected by someone else's gambling, you can contact Worried about someone? - BigDeal
People above 18 can refer themselves at GamCare.
Your Guide to Care and Support
Your Guide to Care and Support. This NHS guide is for people who have care and support needs and their carers, to help plan for their future.
Slough Adult Social Care Can provide information about how to access care and support.
Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)
A Lasting Power of Attorney is a legal document that you make using a special form. It allows you to choose someone that you trust to make decisions on your behalf about things such as your property and affairs or personal welfare when you no longer wish to make those decisions, or you may lack the mental capacity to make those decisions yourself.
Office of Public Guardian provides you with the information about Lasting Power of Attorney. This website also includes information about reporting a concern about an attorney deputy or guardian.
Choosing a care service
If you, a relative or friend need care or support at home it is important to find the right care service for you. Most care in the home is provided by care services or agencies that are registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Use the following link if you are thinking about a care service. Find and compare services - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)
Information about local care services Berkshire Care Services Directory 2024/25
Choosing a care home
If you or a relative are thinking about moving to live in a care home it is important to find the right one for you. Age UK Finding a Care Home provide useful information about choosing the right care home for you.
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ensures people who cannot consent to their care arrangements in a care home or hospital are protected if those arrangements deprive them of their liberty.