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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Fair trade

• Trading Standards - fair trading

Fairs

• Demonstrations and parades - granting of permission
• Licences - fairgrounds

Families Information Service

• Information, advice and guidance for children and young people

Family and local history

• Archives - Collections, publications and resources
• Museums - collections
• Museums - events and exhibitions
• Museums and galleries - enquiries
• Public records of funerals (geneology and family history)

Family support

• Adult learning in Barnsley

Fares, passes and permits

• Disabled person's bus pass
• Home to school travel support
• Mi card
• Older person's bus pass

Farming

• Animals - health and welfare
• Farmers market

Faulty goods

• Trading Standards - product safety

Feedback - complaints, compliments and suggestions

• Adult Social Services - compliments and complaints
• Complaints about schools
• Complaints about services for children
• General Complaints
• Local Involvement Network (LINk)
• Petitions

Financial information

• Accounts
• Freedom of information

Fines

• Animals - dog fouling
• Libraries - fines, fees & charges
• Roads - street parking - enforcement

Fire regulations

• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection

Fire safety

• Consumer advice
• Safety - health and safety - accident reporting
• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection
• Safety - health and safety at work - advice and training

Fireworks

• Trading standards - under age sales

Fishing licences

• Sports - fishing - information

Fit for the Future

• Central Research
• Health advice

Fitness

• Education - sports - coaching
• Health advice
• Leisure and social activities
• Older people - activities
• Passport to leisure
• Roads - safety - cycling and walking to school
• Sports - clubs - directory
• Sports - facilities - information
• Sports - golf - municipal courses

Flea control

• Animals - pest control

Flooding

• Civil emergencies - flooding
• Emergency resilience overview to civil emergencies

Fly posting

• Flyposting - reporting and removal

Flytipping

• Flytipping
• Refuse - litter enforcement

Food premises licence

• Business - food retailing - information and advice
• Licences - butchers shops
• Licences - late night catering
• Licences - street café
• Registration - food businesses

Food standards

• Business - food retailing - information and advice
• Business - food safety - illness and contamination
• Business - food safety - regulations
• Business - food safety - risk assessment
• Trading Standards - food labelling

Foot bridges

• Roads - bridges

Football pitches

• Sports - information and booking
• Sports - pitches and courts

Footpaths (rights of way)

• Countryside - access land
• Public Rights of Way - Enforcement
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance

Forest and woodland management

• Countryside - forests and woodland - management

Forums

• Council - consultation and community engagement

Foster carers

• Children and young people in care - alternative providers

Fostering

• Fostering in Barnsley

Foxes

• Animals - pest control

Fraud

• Benefit - fraud investigation
• National Fraud Initiative - Fair Processing Notice

Free school meals (scheme of aid)

• Free school meals

Freedom of Information (FOI)

• National Fraud Initiative - Fair Processing Notice

Fridge recycling

• Household waste recycling centres
• Recycling - bring sites
• Recycling - general information
• Recycling - residential collections

Fumigation

• Animals - pest control

Funding

• Community development-resource procurement-euro funding
• Education grants - student awards
• Education maintenance allowance
• Free school meals
• Grants - community
• Grants - sports
• Home to school travel support
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
• Nursery education funding
• School access funds
• Youth Opportunities Fund

Funerals

• 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
• 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)