Social care: Regional Emergency Social Work – SHSCT area

Regional out of hours social work service provides an emergency social work response across all of Northern Ireland on an out of hour’s basis:
5pm to 9am weekdays
24 hours at weekends and bank holidays.
This is an emergency service to be used only when you need a social worker urgently, after hours.
The RESWS will provide services for the following groups:
Children and young people
Older people
People with mental health problems
People with learning difficulties
People with physical disabilities
Families and carers of all these groups

The service is also responsible for emergency homelessness for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) and emergency financial issues for the Social Security Agency outside normal working hours. For people aged 18 and over.