Money

• Carmarthenshire.gov.wales: Money Matters
  Find information and advice to help you on benefits, debt, money management, heating your home, accessing services, residential & nursing care charges, non-residential care charges, and more.
• Family Information Service Carmarthen – Financial and Legal help
  Includes links to organisations that can help you and your family with money and legal services including the Citizens Advice Bureau, help with childcare costs, and much more.
• Money Advice Service
  Free and impartial advice, guides, support, tools and calculators to help you on a wide range of money issues.
• Gov.uk: Benefits (Index)
  Browse all the benefits information and help pages written by and kept up-to-date by the UK Government.
• Shelter Cymru
  Free, specialist, independent and confidential advice in Wales on a wide range of debts. Find your nearest face-to-face advisers here.

Parenting & Family Advice

• Carmarthenshire and Pembs FNF Both Parents Matter Cymru: Face-To-Face Support Meetings
  Free face-to-face information, support and advice to parents and grandparents to help them fulfil their responsibilities to, maintain direct contact with and develop meaningful relationships with their children and grandchildren.
• JigSo Children’s Centre
  JigSo is a free, bilingual children’s centre which offers a variety of support services to parents and children (from birth up to the age 14), as well as classes and activities on: safety; communication and language focus; health and wellbeing; personal, social and emotional development; physical development, community, and plenty more. 
• Gingerbread
  Support and practical advice for single parents.
• Grandparents Association (0845 434 9585)
  Advice, information and support for grandparents, including those with full-time care of their grandchildren, those who’ve lost contact with them, and more. Services include a website, a general helpline, a welfare benefits helpline, support groups and factsheets.
• National Childbirth Trust (NCT): West Wales Branch
  A network of local parents in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire offering practical and emotional support, information and friendship, including antenatal classes and postnatal groups. Note: You can also ask your midwife, health visitor or GP about antenatal classes.
• Parenting. Give It Time
  Practical parenting information, tips and activities for parents of children from birth to age 5.

Education & Schools

• Carmarthenshire.gov.wales: Education & Schools (Index)
  Apply for a school place and find information on adult learning, school term dates, school transport, school meals, emergency school closures, and more.
• Family Information Service Carmarthen – Education & Training
  A comprehensive set of links that can help you with training & work, community learning, higher education, schools,school uniform, school meals, Estyn, dyslexia and tutors.
• iLocal: Find a School
  Find your nearest school. Search the whole county or enter a postcode and an address.
• Sir Gâr 50+ Carmarthenshire: Learning
  50+ Carmarthenshire is the website for residents of Carmarthenshire who are 50+. Follow this link to find adult education courses and classes to suit you, as well information on the student support available to you, and more.
• Estyn Inspection Report Search: Carmarthenshire
  Estyn inspects quality and standards in education and training providers in Wales. Find Estyn’s latest reports on all education and training providers in Carmarthenshire.

Additional Needs & Disability

• Government: Supporting a child with additional needs
  If you care for a child with a disability, here’s information on financial support and benefits, home adaptions, after school clubs and holiday schemes and parenting help.
• Carmarthenshire.gov.wales: Additional Support Needs (Index)
  Find information and support services available to adults over 18 in Carmarthenshire that could help with dementia, drugs and alcohol, sight/hearing loss, mental health, physical disability, learning disability and autism.
• Carmarthenshire.gov.wales: Learning Disability
  If you have a learning disability, this page will let you know about day opportunities and employment opportunities that are available to you, Short Breaks, support at home, and more. It also has some useful links to other services.

• Mencap: Wales Learning Disability helpline (0808 808 1111)
  Free, bilingual helpline that offers information and advice about learning disabilities. Operated by Mencap, a UK-wide learning disability support and campaign charity.
• SNAP Cymru
  SNAP Cymru provides free, specialist, independent and advice and support to parents, children and young people (0 -25) who have or may have additional learning needs. This includes a bilingual telephone helpline service, a specialist casework service, disagreement resolution and support at meetings, tribunals and appeals.
• Families First in Carmarthenshire: Disability (children and young people)
  Services for children and young people 0-25 years old, including: specialist parenting support, help for children to attend their local nursery, and specialist activity groups in the holidays.