A to Z of council services

In our A to Z of services you will find each of the services that we provide, organised by the initial letter of an associated keyword or term.

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Abandoned vehicles

• Vehicles - abandoned - reporting and procedures

Abnormal loads (road transport)

• Transport - abnormal loads - notification

Abuse of children

• Integrated Working

Access to information

• Copyright
• Council - spending plans - consultation
• Data protection
• Digital Region
• Freedom of information
• Home access to computers
• Libraries - online information resources
• Our Standards

Access to services

• Access to council services
• Barnsley Connects Service Centres
• Our Standards

Accessibility

• Car parks - council
• Car parks - private
• Disabled Go
• Disabled parking and Blue Badges
• Disabled people employment and training
• Disabled person's bus pass
• Disabled person's rail card
• Equalities and diversity
• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers
• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
• Libraries - special needs
• Making Barnsley Council online accessible
• Radar Key
• Roads - street parking - zones
• Sensory Disability Services

Accessible buildings

• Disabled Go

Accident prevention

• Resilience Management
• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection

Accidents at work

• Safety - health and safety - accident reporting
• Safety - health and safety at work - advice and training
• Safety - health and safety at work - investigation

Accounts/accounting

• Accounts

Accupuncture licence

• Registration - acupuncturist

Adaptations for disabled people

• Central Call community alarms
• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property

Addiction

• Alcohol - advice and support
• Drugs - advice and support

Admissions (schools)

• Admissions - primary school places
• Admissions - school nursery places
• Admissions - secondary school places
• Admissions appeals
• Special educational needs - placement in mainstream schools

Adopted roads

• Roads - adoption agreements

Adoption

• Adoption in Barnsley

Adult abuse

• Safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse

Adult learning

• Adult learning in Barnsley
• Recruitment and Continuous Professional Development

Adult social care

• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• HIV / AIDS - advice and support for adults
• Lasting power of attorney
• Learning Disability Shared Lives Service
• Leaving hospital
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse

Adult social services locality teams

• Social Services Emergency Duty Team

Advanced learning centres (ALCS)

• Building Schools for the Future
• Schools

Advertising and advertisement control

• Planning - advertisement control

Affordable housing

• Housing - council - right to buy
• Housing - low cost home ownership

After school care

• Childcare information for parents
• Childcare out of school clubs
• How to register as a childminder

Aids/HIV

• Advice and support for children and young people with HIV/AIDS
• HIV / AIDS - advice and support for adults

Air pollution

• Pollution control - air quality
• Pollution control - nuisances

Alarms for the elderly and disabled

• Central Call community alarms
• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers

Alcohol use and abuse

• Alcohol - advice and support
• Licences - club premises certificates

Allotments

• Planning - allotments

Ancient monuments

• Archives - Collections, publications and resources
• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Museums and galleries - general information

Angling

• Sports - fishing - information

Animal advice

• Licences - animal movement
• Removal of dead animals

Animal boarding establishment licensing

• Animals - health and welfare

Animal fouling

• Animals - dog bins
• Animals - dog fouling
• Community Wardens

Animal health

• Animals - health and welfare
• Licences - performing animals

Animal licences

• Licences - animal boarding establishment
• Licences - animal movement
• Licences - dangerous animals
• Licences - dog breeding
• Licences - performing animals
• Licences - pet shops
• Licences - riding establishments
• Licences - zoos

Animal rights and welfare

• Licences - animal boarding establishment

Animals

• Animals - Dog Warden Service
• Animals - health and welfare
• Animals - pest control
• Removal of dead animals

Ant control

• Animals - pest control

Anti social behaviour and disorder

• Community Wardens
• Planning - high hedges
• Trading standards - under age sales
• Youth justice referral orders

Appeals

• Council tax benefit - appeals
• Housing benefit - appeals
• Welfare rights - advice
• Welfare rights - benefits advice and assessment

Applications and payments

• Paying for a service

Apprenticeships and placements

• Employment scheme
• Youth leadership training

Archaeology

• Archives - Collections, publications and resources
• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Museums and galleries - general information

Architecture

• Planning - building and landscape design services
• Planning - listed buildings - statutory register

Archives

• Archives - Collections, publications and resources
• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Museums and galleries - general information

Area forums

• Council - consultation and community engagement

Art galleries

• Arts - information
• Museums - collections
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - loans donations and bequests
• Museums and galleries - shops

Arts and entertainment

• Council - permission to host events
• Demonstrations and parades - granting of permission
• Events - What's On
• Exhibitions - temporary
• Licences - auction premises
• Licences - cinemas
• Licences - premises licence
• Licences - theatres
• Museums - events and exhibitions
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - shops
• Parks and open spaces - events

Arts development

• Arts - development
• Arts - information

Asylum and immigration

• Access to council services
• Asylum seekers - advice and support

Attendance allowance

• Welfare rights - advice

Attendance and truancy

• Exclusion of pupils from school
• School attendance/absence from school

Audit committee

• Council - constitution
• Council - decision making process
• National Fraud Initiative - Fair Processing Notice

Auditing

• Performance indicators