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Community and Living

Community and living

For further information about Community and living, browse the following list for the appropriate section.

Animal welfare

| Animal health and welfare | Animal welfare services | Animals - stray | Dog warden service | Dogs - registration | Importation of animals | Licence - animal movement | Licence - boarding animals | Licence - dog breeding | Licence - exotic dangerous and wild animals | Licence - pet shop | Licence - riding establishment | Pest control |

Asylum and immigration

| Asylum seekers support |

Births

| Birth - re-registering | Birth - registering | Births historical searches |

Carers

| Adult carers | Advocacy for carers | Advocacy for social services clients | Alternative providers of care | CRB vetting of contract/supplier staff | Respite care for adults | Young carers |

Childcare

| After and before school childcare | Alternative providers of care | Baby-sitting service | Chaperone service | Child protection | Childminding | CRB vetting of contract/supplier staff | Hospice care for children | Residential care for children | Respite care for children | School holiday schemes | Services for childminders |

Children and family care

| Adoption | Advice for young people | Baby-sitting service | Birth - registering | Chaperone service | Child protection | CRB vetting of contract/supplier staff | Educational support for looked after children | Fostering | Hospice care for children | Inclusion - gypsies or travellers | Inclusion - teenage pregnancy | Out of hours social services support | Outdoor play facilities | Residential care for children | Respite care for children | Support for children with HIV | Support groups for children, young people and families | Young carers |

Community advice

| Addictions | Advice for young people | Advocacy for social services clients | After and before school childcare | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Animal - fouling | Business rates - account enquiries | Business rates - general information | Business rates - relief | Childminding | Co-operative development | Community economic development | Community fire safety | Community grants | Community safety | Community strategy | Council housing - nuisance | Credit unions | Drugs advisory service | Employment advice | General legal advice | Housing - community safety | Interpreting and translating | Major accident hazards | Museums and galleries - general information | Needle exchange | Regeneration projects | Rehabilitation | Repatriation of a deceased body abroad | Repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales | Sale of sundry items and publications | Venue hire and hall bookings | Voluntary organisations - funding | Welfare rights | Witness support |

Community centres and facilities

| Community and day centres | Licence - entertainment | Licence - liquor | Licence - petroleum | Venue hire and hall bookings |

Crime prevention

| CCTV | Community grants | Community safety | Council housing - nuisance | Council housing - squatters and unauthorised occupants | Crime | Harassment help | Housing - community safety | Support groups for children, young people and families |

Deaths, funerals and cremations

| Burial | Burial and grave details | Buying a grave | Cremation | Death - registering | Deaths historical searches | Exhumation | Funeral - civil | Funeral - independent | Funeral - municipal | Funeral expenses | Help with bereavement | Mortuary service | Ordering a memorial | Repatriation of a deceased body abroad | Repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales | Wills and testaments |

Domestic violence

| Harassment help | Protection of vulnerable adults |

Equality and diversity

| Asylum seekers support | Citizenship ceremonies | Employment and training initiatives | Equal opportunities information | Equalities | Harassment help | Inclusion - gypsies or travellers | Inclusion - teenage pregnancy | Interpreting and translating | Job vacancies | New deal traineeships |

Exhibitions

| Licence - entertainment | Licence - liquor | Licence - petroleum | Venue hire and hall bookings |

Grants

| Business awards | Business grants | Business security grants | Educational awards and benefits - education maintenance award | Educational awards and benefits - school maintenance grant | European resource procurement - European funding | Free school meals | Grants and development fund | Home improvements - disability facility grant for a private property | Home improvements - home repair assistance grant | Home improvements - renovation grants | Private nurseries - nursery grants | Renovation grants | School clothing grants | Special educational needs - disabled students allowance | Sports grants | Student awards | Student loan | Travel to school | Voluntary organisations - funding |

Infectious diseases

| Infectious diseases - environmental services | Licence - acupuncturist | Licence - tattoo, piercing and electrolysis |

Legal advice

| Advocacy for carers | CCTV procedure for the release of evidence | Debt counselling | General legal advice | Legal aid | Power of attorney | Representation in court | Wills and testaments | Witness support |

Libraries

| Access to records | Archives | Books and reading | Children and young people | Exhibitions - education | Heritage Services | Internet and computers | Library catalogue | Library charges | Library facilities, location and opening hours | Library fines | Library loans - renewing and extending | Library membership and joining | Library ordering service | Library research service | Library restricted and reserve collections | Library sale of used items | Library services | Library special needs | Tourist information centres |

Marriages

| Civil partnerships | Copy certificates | Marriage - arrangement and ceremony | Marriage - historical searches | Marriage - registering a building of worship |

Pollution

| Environmental information regulations | Pollution control - air | Pollution control - asbestos | Pollution control - clean air act approval | Pollution control - contaminated land | Pollution control - noise | Pollution control - part B authorisation | Pollution control - water |

Religions, faiths and beliefs

| Harassment help | Salvation Army |

Rubbish, waste and recycling

| Assisted refuse collection | Commercial waste - clinical waste disposal | Commercial waste - collection | Commercial waste - special trade collections | Commercial waste - trade bins | Flytipping | Hazardous waste collection | Household waste - clinical waste | Household waste - collection | Household waste - disposal sites | Household waste - domestic bins | Household waste - garden waste | Household waste - special collections for large items | Municipal waste strategy | Recycling - collection sites | Recycling - composters | Recycling - general information | Street litter bins |

Safety

| Arson reduction | Attending fires | CCTV | Community fire safety | Community grants | Community safety | CRB vetting of contract/supplier staff | Dangerous structures and public safety | Enforcement - non-residential | Firework - health and safety | Food business - health promotion | Harassment help | Hazardous Chemical information | Home safety | Housing - community safety | Licence - entertainment | Licence - liquor | Licence - petroleum | Major accident hazards | Syringes - health and safety |

Street care and cleaning

| Animal - fouling | Animals - dead | Flytipping | Graffiti | Grass cutting | Public conveniences | Public health - drainage | Spillage - roads | Street litter bins | Street litter [including street sweeping] |

Support groups

| Addictions | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Carer support groups and organisations | Community support groups and organisations | Drugs advisory service | Help with bereavement | Needle exchange | Rehabilitation |

Taxis and minicabs

| Licence - hackney carriage - taxi | Licence - hackney carriage driver's | Licence - house to house collections | Licence - private hire driver's | Licence - private hire operator's licence | Licence - private hire vehicle - minicab | Taxis |

Tourism and travel

| Local attractions | Tourist accommodation | Tourist information centres | Town twinning |

Town centre management

| CCTV | Public health - drainage |

Voluntary organisations

| Addictions | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Asylum seekers support | Carer support groups and organisations | Charities | Community grants | Community support groups and organisations | Drugs advisory service | Licence - house to house collections | Licence - second hand goods | Licence - street collections | Needle exchange | Rehabilitation | Student organisations - youth groups, clubs and activities | Support groups for children, young people and families | Witness support |

Walking and cycling

| Public rights of way - general | Road markings and signage - cycle lanes and routes | Road safety - cycling and walking to school | Road safety - cycling proficiency | Roads - school crossing patrols |

Youth offending

| Action plan orders for juveniles | Court procedures | Final warning for young offenders | Parenting orders | Preventative services - young children | Probation orders on young offenders | Referral orders | Reparation orders | Supervision orders |

Youth support

| Advice for young people | Becoming a mentor to students | Complaints procedure - school incidents | Educational support for looked after children | Harassment help | Language and cultural support | Obtaining a mentor | Psychology, psychiatry or social work services | Student awards | Student loan | Young carers | Young people's drop-in activities | Young people's organised activities | Youth projects - volunteering |


Page last updated: 14 July 2006