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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HGV Management and Signage

• Transport - abnormal loads - notification

HIV/Aids

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

Hackney carriage fares

• Transport - taxi fare setting

Hackney carriage licensing

• Licences - hackney carriage - drivers licence
• Licences - hackney carriage - vehicle licence
• Licences - private hire vehicle - drivers licence
• Licences - private hire vehicle - Vehicle licence

Hairdressers licence

• Licences - hairdresser

Harassment (racial, sexual, homophobic and domestic)

• Bullying
• Harassment - advice and support
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse
• What is Hate Crime?

Harbours

• Rabies Protection

Hate crime

• What is Hate Crime?

Hazard warnings (food and product safety)

• Trading Standards - product safety

Hazardous substances

• Pollution control - hazardous substances

Hazardous waste disposal

• Discarded needles and syringes
• Household waste - hazardous waste - disposal

Headstone safety

• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries

Health

• Housing - public health advice
• Advice and support for children and young people with HIV/AIDS
• Alcohol - advice and support
• Health advice
• Healthy schools scheme
• HIV / AIDS - advice and support for adults
• Hospice care
• Leaving hospital
• Leisure and social activities
• Local Involvement Network (LINk)
• Occupational therapy
• Podiatry Appointments
• Residential and nursing home care
• Residential care for children and young people

Health and safety

• Business - food retailing - information and advice
• Business - food safety - illness and contamination
• Business - food safety - inspections
• Business - food safety - regulations
• Business - registering premises
• Land and property - dangerous structures - public safety
• Licences - obstructions - scaffolding and hoarding
• Licences - poisons
• Registration - food businesses
• Safety - health and safety - accident reporting
• Safety - health and safety - prosecutions register
• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection
• Safety - health and safety at work - advice and training
• Safety - health and safety at work - investigation
• Smoking ban enforcement - enclosed public spaces

Health clinics

• Podiatry Appointments

Health promotion

• Health advice
• Healthy schools scheme

Healthy living

• Children and young people - organised activities
• Health advice
• Keeping warm in winter - advice and support
• Local authority and school plans
• Older people - activities

Hearing impairment

• Libraries - special needs
• Sensory Disability Services

Heating and energy efficiency

• Keeping warm in winter - advice and support

Hedges

• Planning - high hedges

Highways

• Licences - highway projection
• Roads - access to property
• Roads - adoption agreements
• Roads - bridge strengthening
• Roads - bridges
• Roads - closures and diversions
• Roads - enforcement
• Roads - flooding - drains and gullies
• Roads - gritting
• Roads - maintenance
• Roads - maintenance - structural surveys
• Roads - markings and signage - cycle lanes and routes
• Roads - markings and signage - road signs
• Roads - markings and signage - street name plates
• Roads - markings and signage - yellow lines
• Roads - obstructions
• Roads - pavements - personal injury
• Roads - road-works
• Roads - safety - cameras
• Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions
• Roads - safety - pedestrian crossings
• Roads - safety - speed humps
• Roads - safety - spillages
• Roads - safety - traffic schemes
• Roads - school crossing patrols
• Roads - snow clearance
• Roads - speed limits
• Roads - stopping up
• Roads - street furniture - provision and maintenance
• Roads - traffic lights
• Roads - weight limits

Historic buildings

• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Planning - listed buildings - statutory register

Hoardings

• Licences - obstructions - scaffolding and hoarding

Home access scheme

• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers

Home care

• Advice and support for young carers
• Advocacy for carers
• Central Call community alarms
• Direct payments
• Home Care Services
• Incontinence support
• Learning disability older family carers
• Leaving hospital
• Meals services

Home education

• Educating your child at home

Home help services

• Leaving hospital

Home library service

• Libraries - special needs

Home to school transport

• Home to school travel support
• Mi card

Homelessness

• Housing - social housing policy
• Housing Options, Advice & Homelessness Prevention Service

Horse riding

• Licences - riding establishments

Hospice care

• Hospice care

Hospice care for children

• Hospice care for children and young people

Hospital discharge

• Leaving hospital

House alarm (nuisance)

• Pollution control - noise
• Pollution control - nuisances

House alterations and extensions

• Planning applications - residential

House numbering

• Planning - street names and numbering - statutory register

House to house collections

• Licences - house to house collections

Household waste collection

• Household waste - clinical
• Household waste - domestic bin provision
• Household waste - garden waste
• Household waste collection
• Household waste special collections for large items
• Recycling - residential collections

Household waste recycling

• Household waste recycling centres
• Recycling - bags and containers
• Recycling - bring sites
• Recycling - general information
• Recycling - residential collections
• Recycling composters

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOS)

• Housing - Landlords Accreditation Scheme
• Housing - multiple occupation - register
• Housing - multiple occupation - safety inspection
• Licences - homes in multiple occupancy

Housing

• Housing - public health advice
• Energy - efficiency advice and assessment
• Housing - council - improvement strategy
• Housing - council - right to buy
• Housing - empty residential properties
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
• Housing - Landlords Accreditation Scheme
• Housing - low cost home ownership
• Housing - social housing policy
• Housing Market Renewal
• Landlord Information

Housing advice services

• Housing Options, Advice & Homelessness Prevention Service

Housing allocation

• Housing - council - improvement strategy

Housing benefit

• Discretionary Housing Payment
• Housing benefit - appeals
• Housing benefit - backdated claim
• Housing benefit - change in circumstances
• Housing benefit - new claim
• Housing benefit - overpayments
• Housing Benefit - Renewals
• Landlord Information
• Local Housing Allowance
• Welfare rights - advice
• Welfare rights - benefits advice and assessment

Housing market assessment

• Housing - council - improvement strategy

Housing market renewal

• Housing Market Renewal

Housing repairs and renovation

• Housing - council - improvement strategy

Housing services

• Housing - empty residential properties
• Housing Market Renewal

Housing strategy

• Housing - social housing policy

Human resources

• Business - notification to council - employees
• Employment scheme
• Jobs - sports employment
• Jobs and careers homepage

Hygiene

• Business - food safety - illness and contamination
• Business - food safety - inspections
• Business - food safety - regulations
• Business - food safety - risk assessment

Hypodermic syringes and needles

• Discarded needles and syringes
• Drugs - advice and support
• Household waste - clinical
• Refuse - commercial waste - clinical waste disposal