One area that consistently comes up in our consultations is information. In particular there are often issues of people not being referred to the right service at the right time because either they, or the person working with them was not aware that there was a service available.

The Referrers Guide is a directory that has been produced for a number of years, containing referral information for professionals. It is now available as an interactive CD ROM for professionals. The main problem with directories is that they are difficult to keep up to date.

For that reason the disk is backed up by the referrers guide website, which contains the most up to date information for referral options, as well as lots of other information around involvement and diversity, all relevant strategies and documents and a large links section.