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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Cabinet

• Council - constitution
• Council - decision making process

Campaigning

• Demonstrations and parades - granting of permission

Canals

• Canals and waterways

Cannon Hall Museum and Park

• Events - What's On
• Museums - collections
• Museums - events and exhibitions
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - shops

Car alarm (nuisance)

• Pollution control - noise
• Pollution control - nuisances

Car parking permits

• Disabled parking and Blue Badges
• Roads - street parking - permits
• Roads - street parking - zones

Car parks

• Car parks - council
• Car parks - private

Caravan and camp sites

• Licences - caravan site
• Travelling people - support for children

Care assessment

• Carers assessment

Care homes

• Residential and nursing home care
• Residential care for children and young people

Care in the community

• Adult social care support groups and organisations
• Day opportunities
• Direct payments
• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• Home Care Services
• Hospice care
• Hospice care for children and young people
• Incontinence support
• Meals services
• Respite Care Services
• Respite/short break care for children and young people
• Social care ambassadors
• Social Services Emergency Duty Team
• Social Services transport - day services
• Support for young people leaving care
• Support services for children and their families

Career advice, guidance and options

• Employment scheme
• Work experience placements

Carers

• Advice and support for young carers
• Advocacy for carers
• Carers Services
• Carers assessment
• Learning disability older family carers
• Learning Disability Shared Lives Service

Castles

• Events - What's On
• Tourism - tourist information centres

Cemeteries

• Advice and guidance on arranging a cremation
• Advice and guidance on costs of a funeral
• Buying a plot for a grave / funeral
• Death - funerals - civil
• Death - historical searches
• Exhumation of a grave
• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries
• Information and advice on funerals and burials
• Information on conducting an independant funeral
• Public records of funerals (geneology and family history)
• Repatriation with a deceased relative from abroad
• Repatriation with a deceased relative within England and Wales

Census

• Statistics - census information

Central Call Unit

• Central Call community alarms

Central government

• Members of Parliament - MPs and MEPs - General Information

Cess pools

• Pollution control - septic tank and cesspit emptying - information

Charities

• Licences - house to house collections
• Licences - street collections

Chief Executive

• Council - constitution
• Council structure and our Senior Management Team

Child employment regulations

• Entertainment and performance licences for children and young people

Child protection

• Child protection
• Child protection orders

Childcare

• Chaperone service for children and young people
• Childcare information for parents
• Childcare out of school clubs
• How to register as a childminder

Children and family wellbeing

• Advice and support for children and young people with HIV/AIDS
• Advice and support for children in care
• Advice and support for young carers
• Barnsley Children and Young People's Trust
• Bullying
• Common Assessment Framework
• Contact Point
• Education for children who are sick and cannot attend school
• Educational support for children in care
• Entertainment and performance licences for children and young people
• Hospice care for children and young people
• Integrated Working
• Language and cultural support for schools
• Preventing young people offending
• Respite/short break care for children and young people
• School nursing
• Schools - psychological, psychiatric or social work services
• Special educational needs - placement in mainstream schools
• Special educational needs assessment
• Special educational needs statement
• Support services for children and their families
• Travelling people - support for children
• Young people running away from home or care

Children and young people

• Central Research
• Children's Library Service
• Complaints about schools
• Complaints about services for children
• Education grants - student awards
• Education loans - student loan
• Information, advice and guidance for children and young people
• Integrated Working
• Preventing young people offending
• Recruitment and Continuous Professional Development
• School visits
• Schools
• Travelling people - support for children
• Youth justice referral orders
• Youth leadership training

Children in care

• Adoption in Barnsley
• Advice and support for children in care
• Children and young people in care - alternative providers
• Educational support for children in care
• Fostering in Barnsley
• Local authority and school plans
• Residential care for children and young people
• Support for young people leaving care
• Young people running away from home or care

Children in need

• Integrated Working

Children's activities

• Breakfast clubs
• Chaperone service for children and young people
• Children and young people - organised activities
• Children's Library Service
• Mi card

Children's centres

• Admissions - school nursery places
• Breakfast clubs
• Childcare information for parents
• Childcare out of school clubs
• Children's Centres
• How to register as a childminder
• Nursery education funding

Children's library

• Children's Library Service
• Information, advice and guidance for children and young people
• Libraries - business information services
• Libraries - computers and the internet
• Libraries - fines, fees & charges
• Libraries - general information
• Libraries - how to join
• Libraries - loans and renewals
• Libraries - online catalogue
• Libraries - requests and reservations
• Libraries - sale of old books and publications
• Mi card

Chiropody

• Leaving hospital
• Occupational therapy
• Podiatry Appointments

Cinemas

• Licences - cinemas

Circuses

• Animals - health and welfare
• Council - permission to host events
• Licences - performing animals

Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)

• Consumer advice

Citizenship ceremonies

• Ceremonies - citizenship

Civic (The)

• Arts - information
• Events - What's On
• Exhibitions - temporary
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - shops
• Tourism - tourist information centres

Civic Mayor of Barnsley

• Mayor - invitations

Civic amenity sites

• Household waste recycling centres
• Recycling - bring sites

Civic giftware

• Events - What's On
• Tourism - tourist information centres

Civic recognition

• Council - civic recognition - people

Civil contingencies

• Business continuity planning in Barnsley
• Civil emergencies - flooding
• Resilience Management

Civil partnerships/civil weddings

• Licence - venue for civil marriage and civil partnerships
• Marriage - arrangement and ceremonies

Clean air monitoring

• Pollution control - air quality

Clinical and hazardous waste

• Discarded needles and syringes
• Household waste - clinical
• Pollution control - hazardous substances
• Refuse - commercial waste - clinical waste disposal

Club licenses

• Licences - club premises certificates

Coal mining

• Museums - events and exhibitions

Cockroaches

• Animals - pest control

Commercial land/property

• Land and property - availability lists
• Land and property - commercial lettings
• Land and property - estates management
• Land and property - improvement

Commercial waste

• Refuse - commercial waste - collection
• Refuse - commercial waste - disposal
• Refuse - commercial waste - special trade collections
• Refuse - commercial waste - spillage
• Refuse - commercial waste - trade bins

Committees

• Council - constitution
• Council - decision making process
• Councillors - surgeries

Community alarms

• Central Call community alarms

Community care

• Learning Disability Shared Lives Service

Community centres

• Day opportunities

Community development

• Building Schools for the Future
• Community development - regeneration projects
• Community development-resource procurement-euro funding
• Community planning - rural development
• Housing - council - improvement strategy

Community grants

• Grants - community
• Welfare rights - advice
• Welfare rights - benefits advice and assessment

Community learning and information

• Adult learning in Barnsley

Community plan

• Local area agreements

Community rehabilitation orders

• Youth justice reparation orders

Community safety

• Community Safety
• Community Wardens

Community transport

• Disabled person's bus pass
• Older person's bus pass
• Social Services transport - day services
• Special educational needs transport

Complaints and compliments

• Adult Social Services - compliments and complaints
• Complaints about Councillors
• Complaints about schools
• Complaints about services for children
• General Complaints
• Petitions

Composting

• Recycling composters

Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

• Council - value for money

Compulsory purchase

• Land and property - compulsory acquisition - private property

Computer learning centres

• Digital Region
• Libraries - computers and the internet

Concessionary fares

• Disabled person's rail card

Connexions

• Information, advice and guidance for children and young people

Conservation areas

• Community planning - rural development
• Countryside - conservation
• Countryside - forests and woodland - management
• Countryside - local access forums
• Countryside - management projects
• Countryside - ranger services
• Planning - conservation advice
• Planning - conservation areas
• Planning - listed buildings - statutory register
• Planning - policies - environmental policies
• Planning - tree management
• Planning - Tree Preservation Orders

Constituencies

• Members of Parliament - MPs and MEPs - General Information

Constitution

• Council - constitution
• Council - decision making process

Consultation

• Consultation overview
• Consultation strategy
• Council - consultation and community engagement
• Council - spending plans - consultation
• Local Involvement Network (LINk)
• Planning - consultation

Consumer advice services

• Consumer advice
• Trading Standards - fair trading

Consumer protection

• Consumer advice
• Trading Standards - fair trading

ContactPoint

• Contact Point

Contacting the council

• Contacting Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Contaminated land

• Pollution control - Contaminated land

Contracts

• Council - approved suppliers
• Council - procurement - contracts lists

Controlled parking zones

• Roads - street parking - enforcement
• Roads - street parking - zones

Cooper Gallery

• Arts - information
• Events - What's On
• Museums - collections
• Museums - events and exhibitions
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - shops

Copyright

• Copyright

Coroners

• Advice and guidance on arranging a cremation
• Advice and guidance on costs of a funeral
• Barnsley Mortuary
• Buying a plot for a grave / funeral
• Death - funerals - civil
• Death - historical searches
• Death - registering
• Exhumation of a grave
• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries
• Information and advice on funerals and burials
• Information on conducting an independant funeral
• Public records of funerals (geneology and family history)
• Repatriation with a deceased relative from abroad
• Repatriation with a deceased relative within England and Wales

Corporate Plan

• Council - spending plans - consultation
• Council - value for money

Council accounts

• Accounts
• Council - spending plans - consultation

Council and democracy

• Council - constitution
• Council - consultation and community engagement
• Council - decision making process
• Council - parish and town council and councillors
• Councillors - Declaration of Interest
• Councillors - general information
• Councillors - surgeries
• Elections - electoral nominations
• Elections - electoral register
• Elections - results - publication
• Elections - voting
• Elections - voting by post
• Local area agreements
• Statistics - census information

Council bills

• Business rates - account enquiries
• Business rates - annual notification
• Council tax - account enquiries
• Council tax - annual notification
• Paying for a service
• Refuse - litter enforcement
• Roads - street parking - enforcement

Council budgets and spending

• Council - spending plans - consultation

Council governance

• Council - decision making process

Council housing

• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Housing - council - improvement strategy
• Housing - council - right to buy
• Housing - social housing policy
• Housing Options, Advice & Homelessness Prevention Service
• Residential services - garden maintenance

Council news

• Council - publications
• Latest Media Releases

Council performance

• Consultation overview
• Council - value for money
• Performance indicators

Council policies and plans

• Council - constitution
• Council - spending plans - consultation
• Council - value for money
• Housing - social housing policy
• Pre-employment checks
• Sustainable development - general
• Sustainable development - travel plans

Council structure

• Council structure and our Senior Management Team

Council tax

• Benefit - hospitalisation
• Council tax - account enquiries
• Council tax - annual notification
• Council tax - band reductions
• Council tax - discount
• Council tax - exemptions
• Council tax benefit - appeals
• Council tax benefit - backdated claim
• Council tax benefit - change in circumstances
• Council tax benefit - new claim
• Council tax benefit - overpayments
• Council Tax Benefit - Renewal
• Discretionary Housing Payment
• Paying for a service
• Welfare rights - benefits advice and assessment

Council vacancies

• Jobs and careers homepage

Councillors

• Complaints about Councillors
• Council - decision making process
• Council - parish and town council and councillors
• Councillors - Declaration of Interest
• Councillors - general information
• Councillors - surgeries

Country parks

• Parks and open spaces - events
• Parks and open spaces - general information
• Parks and open spaces - outdoor

Countryside

• Civil emergencies - flooding
• Community planning - rural development
• Countryside - access land
• Countryside - conservation
• Countryside - educational packs
• Countryside - events
• Countryside - forests and woodland - management
• Countryside - general information
• Countryside - local access forums
• Countryside - management projects
• Countryside - ranger services
• Countryside - surveys
• Countryside - volunteers
• Land and property - grazing
• Parks and open spaces - general information
• Planning - landscape character assessment
• Tourism - tourist information centres

Crafts

• Day opportunities

Cremation

• Advice and guidance on arranging a cremation
• Buying a plot for a grave / funeral
• Death - historical searches
• Exhumation of a grave
• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries
• Information and advice on funerals and burials
• Public records of funerals (geneology and family history)

Crime and law enforcement

• Community Safety
• Community Wardens
• Harassment - advice and support
• Illegal street trading
• Licences - street trading
• Preventing young people offending
• Trading standards - under age sales
• What is Hate Crime?
• Youth justice referral orders

Crossing patrols

• Roads - school crossing patrols

Culture

• Arts - development
• Arts - information
• Events - What's On
• Museums - events and exhibitions
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Museums and galleries - general information
• Museums and galleries - shops

Curriculum and qualifications (pre-16)

• Citizenship
• Schools' curriculum
• Schools' support for gifted children

Customer Service Centres (Barnsley Connects)

• Barnsley Connects Service Centres

Customer satisfaction surveys

• Consultation strategy

Customer service

• Our Standards

Cycling

• Public Rights of Way - Enforcement
• Public Rights of Way - General information
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance
• Roads - markings and signage - cycle lanes and routes
• Roads - safety - cycle training
• Roads - safety - cycling and walking to school
• Sports - information and booking
• Tourism - tourist information centres