Useful links

Colchester Police
www.essexpolice.uk

Colchester Borough Council
www.colchester.gov.uk

Crown Prosecution Service
www.cps.gov.uk/publications

Citizens Advice Bureau
www.adviceguide.org.uk

Ormiston Children's Centres
www.colchester.surestart.org

Tendring District Council
www.tendringdc.gov.uk

Essex Refuges

Basildon Women's Aid
www.basildonwa.org

Braintree Women's Aid
01376 321720

Chelmsford Women's Aid
www.chelmsfordwa.co.uk

Safer Places (Harlow)
www.saferplaces.co.uk

Southend - see Safer Places

Thurrock Women's Aid
www.thurrock-wa.org

Legal Help:

Ellison & Co
www.ellisonslegal.com

Fisher Jones & Greenwood
www.fjg.co.uk

Sparling Benham & Brough
www.sparlings.co.uk

National Contacts:

Free Call Home
www.messagehome.org.uk

Samaritans
www.samaritans.org

Women's Aid Federation, England (WAFE)
www.womensaid.org.uk

Social Services
www.essexcc.gov.uk

Welfare Benefits
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk

Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (at London Metropolitan University)
www.cwasu.org

Childline
www.childline.org.uk
0800 1111