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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Pandemic

• Emergency resilience overview to civil emergencies

Parent and toddler groups

• Support services for children and their families

Parental support

• Admissions appeals
• Advice and support for children and young people with HIV/AIDS
• Barnsley Music Service
• Breakfast clubs
• Bullying
• Children and young people - organised activities
• Children's Centres
• Children's Library Service
• Complaints about schools
• Educating your child at home
• Education grants - student awards
• Education loans - student loan
• Education maintenance allowance
• Entertainment and performance licences for children and young people
• Extended schools
• Free school meals
• Home to school travel support
• Information, advice and guidance for children and young people
• Language and cultural support for schools
• School access funds
• School attendance/absence from school
• School visits
• Schools
• Schools - psychological, psychiatric or social work services
• Schools' catering
• Schools' support for gifted children
• Special educational needs - placement in mainstream schools
• Special educational needs assessment
• Special educational needs statement
• Special educational needs transport

Parenting skills and courses

• Children's Centres

Parish and town councils

• Council - parish and town council and councillors

Parking

• Car parks - council
• Car parks - private
• Disabled parking and Blue Badges
• Roads - street parking - pavements
• Roads - street parking - permits
• Roads - street parking - zones
• Roads - vehicle access - kerbs

Parking fines

• Roads - street parking - enforcement

Parks and grounds maintenance

• Parks and open spaces - landscaping
• Parks and open spaces - maintenance

Parks, gardens and open spaces

• Countryside - general information
• Events - What's On
• Parks and open spaces - events
• Parks and open spaces - general information
• Parks and open spaces - outdoor

Partnership working

• Barnsley Children and Young People's Trust
• Business Advice
• Community development-resource procurement-euro funding
• Council - constitution
• Health advice
• Housing - council - improvement strategy
• Local area agreements
• Local Involvement Network (LINk)
• Sustainable Community Strategy
• Town twinning

Passport to Leisure Scheme

• Children and young people - organised activities
• Older people - activities
• Passport to leisure
• Sports - information and booking

Pavements

• Roads - pavements - maintenance
• Roads - pavements - obstructions

Payments

• Council tax benefit - backdated claim
• Council tax benefit - change in circumstances
• Council tax benefit - overpayments
• Direct payments
• Discretionary Housing Payment
• Housing - council - improvement strategy
• Housing benefit - backdated claim
• Housing benefit - change in circumstances
• Housing benefit - overpayments
• Paying for a service

Pedestrian crossings

• Roads - safety - pedestrian crossings

Penalty charge notice

• Animals - dog fouling
• Refuse - litter enforcement
• Roads - street parking - enforcement

Pensioner's concessionary bus pass

• Older person's bus pass

Performance indicators

• Consultation strategy
• Performance indicators

Personal Treatment

• Registration - acupuncturist
• Registration - tattooists, piercing and electrolysis

Personal data

• Data protection
• Freedom of information

Personal injury

• Insurance claims
• Roads - pavements - personal injury

Pests and pest control

• Animals - pest control

Pet shop licence

• Licences - pet shops

Petitions

• Petitions

Physical disability

• Disabled parking and Blue Badges
• Disabled people employment and training
• Disabled person's bus pass
• Disabled person's rail card
• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property

Picnic sites

• Parks and open spaces - general information
• Parks and open spaces - outdoor
• Tourism - tourist information centres

Pigeons

• Animals - pest control

Places of interest

• Events - What's On

Planning (town and country)

• Planning - advertisement control
• Planning - landscape character assessment
• Planning - policies - environmental policies
• Public Rights of Way - General information
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance
• Sustainable development - general

Planning applications

• Planning - building and landscape design services
• Planning - consultation
• Planning - decision notices - statutory register
• Planning - Development Management
• Planning - local plan - minerals
• Planning - local plan - waste
• Planning applications - business property
• Planning applications - residential

Planning enforcement

• Planning - building control - enforcement

Playgrounds

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

Podiatry

• Leaving hospital
• Occupational therapy
• Podiatry Appointments

Poisons

• Licences - poisons
• Pollution control - hazardous substances

Police

• Integrated Working

Political parties

• Elections - electoral nominations
• Elections - results - publication
• Members of Parliament - MPs and MEPs - General Information

Pollution

• Pollution control - air quality
• Pollution control - construction
• Pollution control - Contaminated land
• Pollution control - exhaust emission testing
• Pollution control - hazardous substances
• Pollution control - idling vehicles
• Pollution control - inspection and regulation of premises - Part B processes
• Pollution control - light pollution
• Pollution control - noise
• Pollution control - nuisances
• Pollution control - septic tank and cesspit emptying - information
• Pollution control - water

Population and migration

• Statistics - census information

Ports and harbours

• Rabies Protection

Postal voting

• Elections - voting by post

Pot holes (roadway)

• Roads - maintenance
• Roads - maintenance - structural surveys
• Roads - pavements - maintenance
• Roads - pavements - personal injury
• Roads - road-works

Power of attorney

• Lasting power of attorney

Pre-school childcare

• Childcare information for parents

Pre-school grants

• Nursery education funding

Pre-school learning

• Admissions - school nursery places
• Children's Library Service
• Schools

Premises licences

• Business - registering premises
• Gambling Act - licensing premises
• Licences - auction premises
• Licences - premises licence

Premises to let

• Land and property - commercial lettings

Primary schools

• Admissions - primary school places
• School closures
• Schools

Privacy and data protection

• Data protection
• Freedom of information

Private housing

• Housing - empty residential properties
• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
• Housing - low cost home ownership
• Land and Property - Local Land Charges - Personal search
• Land and Property - Local Land Charges Searches
• Licences - homes in multiple occupancy

Private rented accommodation

• Housing - Landlords Accreditation Scheme

Probation orders

• Youth justice court procedures
• Youth justice final warning
• Youth justice reparation orders

Procurement

• Council - procurement - contracts lists
• Council - procurement - contracts management
• Council - procurement - policy

Product safety

• Consumer advice
• Trading Standards - fair trading
• Trading Standards - product safety

Properties (council owned)

• Council - property - register
• Land and property - availability lists
• Land and property - estates management
• Land and property - property enquiries

Property and land ownership

• Statutory Register - Common Land and Village Greens

Property damage

• Insurance claims

Property naming and numbering

• Planning - street names and numbering - statutory register

Property searches

• Land and Property - Local Land Charges - Personal search
• Land and Property - Local Land Charges Searches

Prosecutions register

• Safety - health and safety - prosecutions register

Protected buildings

• Land and property - demolitions - control and advice
• Planning - listed buildings - statutory register

Protected trees

• Countryside - forests and woodland - management
• Planning - Tree Preservation Orders

Protection of children

• Child protection
• Child protection orders
• Parenting orders

Proxy voting

• Elections - voting
• Elections - voting by proxy

Psychology service

• Schools - psychological, psychiatric or social work services

Public conveniences (toilets)

• Public toilets
• Radar Key

Public entertainment licenses

• Licences - performing animals
• Licences - personal licences
• Licences - public entertainment

Public footpaths

• Public Rights of Way - Enforcement
• Public Rights of Way - General information
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance

Public health

• Housing - public health advice
• Central Research
• Health - public health - cooling tower registration
• Health advice
• Healthy schools scheme
• Pollution control - exhaust emission testing
• Pollution control - idling vehicles
• Smoking ban enforcement - enclosed public spaces

Public libraries

• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Children's Library Service
• 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 - mobile library service
• Libraries - online catalogue
• Libraries - requests and reservations
• Libraries - sale of old books and publications
• Libraries - special needs

Public meetings

• Council - consultation and community engagement
• Council - decision making process

Public notices

• Council - publications
• Planning - consultation

Public relations

• Council - civic recognition - people
• Council - media and publicity protocols
• Petitions

Public rights of way

• Countryside - access land
• Countryside - local access forums
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance

Public service charters

• Council - constitution

Public transport

• Disabled person's bus pass
• Mi card
• Older person's bus pass
• Sustainable development - travel plans
• Transport - bus stops and shelters - positioning

Publications

• Council - publications

Publications for sale

• Libraries - sale of old books and publications

Purchasing and procurement

• Council - procurement - policy