A to Z of council services

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Safeguarding adults

• Advocacy Services
• Carers assessment
• Hospice care
• Keeping warm in winter - advice and support
• Learning disability older family carers
• Leaving hospital
• Residential and nursing home care
• Respite Care Services
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse

Safeguarding children

• Barnsley Children and Young People's Trust
• Bullying
• Child protection
• Child protection orders
• Common Assessment Framework
• Support services for children and their families

Safer Communities Partnership

• Adult social care support groups and organisations
• Animals - dog bins
• Community Wardens
• Council - consultation and community engagement
• Sustainable Community Strategy

Safer Neighbourhood Team

• Community Safety

Safety

• Business - food safety - illness and contamination
• Business - food safety - regulations
• Council - commercial activities - MOT testing
• Discarded needles and syringes
• Housing - multiple occupation - safety inspection
• Land and property - dangerous structures - public safety
• Pollution control - inspection and regulation of premises - Part B processes
• Pre-employment checks
• Registration - motor salvage operator
• Roads - maintenance
• Roads - safety - cycle training
• Roads - safety - cycling and walking to school
• Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions
• Roads - safety - pedestrian crossings
• Roads - safety - speed humps
• Roads - safety - spillages
• Roads - safety - traffic schemes
• Safety - health and safety - accident reporting
• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection
• Safety - health and safety at work - investigation
• Trading Standards - product safety
• What is Hate Crime?

Salting and gritting

• Roads - gritting
• Roads - snow clearance

Sandbags

• Civil emergencies - flooding

Satellite dishes

• Planning applications - residential

Scaffolding

• Licences - obstructions - scaffolding and hoarding

School achievement and attainment tables

• Schools - assessment and performance

School admissions

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

School crossing patrols

• Roads - school crossing patrols

School governors

• Recruitment and Continuous Professional Development
• School governors

School holidays

• Childcare information for parents
• Childcare out of school clubs
• School holidays childcare and play schemes
• School term and holiday dates

School meals

• Free school meals
• Schools' catering

School performance and standards

• Local authority and school plans
• Schools - assessment and performance
• Schools' curriculum

School transport

• Home to school travel support
• Mi card
• Roads - safety - cycling and walking to school
• Special educational needs transport
• Sustainable development - travel plans

School welfare services

• School nursing
• Schools - psychological, psychiatric or social work services

Schools

• Breakfast clubs
• Building Schools for the Future
• Bullying
• Citizenship
• Complaints about schools
• Educating your child at home
• Education for children who are sick and cannot attend school
• Education maintenance allowance
• Exclusion of pupils from school
• Extended schools
• Healthy schools scheme
• Language and cultural support for schools
• Local authority and school plans
• Recruitment and Continuous Professional Development
• School access funds
• School attendance/absence from school
• School closures
• School nursing
• School visits
• Schools
• Schools - assessment and performance
• Schools' curriculum
• Schools' support for gifted children
• Special educational needs assessment
• Special educational needs statement
• Support for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
• Teenage pregnancy
• Travelling people - support for children
• Work experience placements

Schwabisch Gmund, Germany

• Town twinning

Scrap metal dealers (registration of)

• Registration - motor salvage operator
• Registration - scrap metal dealer

Scrutiny

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

Scrutiny commissions

• Council - decision making process

Secondary schools

• Admissions - secondary school places
• Building Schools for the Future

Self employment

• Employment scheme

Selling goods and services to the council

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

Senior Management Team

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

Sensory impairment

• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• Sensory Disability Services

Septic tanks

• Pollution control - septic tank and cesspit emptying - information

Severe disability

• Housing - improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
• Respite Care Services
• Respite/short break care for children and young people

Sewers and sewerage

• Drainage - help and advice
• Roads - flooding - drains and gullies

Sex shop licence

• Licences - sex establishments

Sheltered housing

• Housing - council - improvement strategy

Sign language interpreting services

• Access to council services
• Making Barnsley Council online accessible

Sixth form colleges

• Adult learning in Barnsley
• Schools

Skips

• Licences - skip operators
• Refuse - skip permits

Small businesses

• Business Advice
• Business rates - reductions

Smoke control

• Pollution control - air quality

Smoking

• Health advice
• Smoking ban enforcement - enclosed public spaces

Snow clearance

• Roads - gritting
• Roads - snow clearance

Social Enterprise Barnsley

• Business Advice
• Community development - regeneration projects

Social and support groups

• Adult social care support groups and organisations
• Health advice
• Social care ambassadors

Social clubs

• Day opportunities

Social policy

• Housing - social housing policy

Social security

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

Social services

• Adoption in Barnsley
• Adult social care support groups and organisations
• Adult Social Services - compliments and complaints
• Advocacy for carers
• Advocacy Services
• Asylum seekers - advice and support
• Carers Services
• Carers assessment
• Central Call community alarms
• Day opportunities
• Direct payments
• Disabled parking and Blue Badges
• Disabled people employment and training
• Disabled person's bus pass
• Disabled person's rail card
• Drugs - advice and support
• Equipment and Adaptations Service
• Equipment and adaptations service providers
• Fostering in Barnsley
• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• Harassment - advice and support
• HIV / AIDS - advice and support for adults
• Home Care Services
• Hospice care
• Housing Options, Advice & Homelessness Prevention Service
• Keeping warm in winter - advice and support
• Lasting power of attorney
• Learning disability older family carers
• Learning Disability Shared Lives Service
• Leaving hospital
• Leisure and social activities
• Local Involvement Network (LINk)
• Meals services
• Occupational therapy
• Older person's bus pass
• Residential and nursing home care
• Residential services - garden maintenance
• Respite Care Services
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse
• Sensory Disability Services
• Social care ambassadors
• Social Services Emergency Duty Team
• Social Services transport - day services
• Support services for children and their families

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

• Integrated Working
• Our partners

South Yorkshire Police

• Our partners

South Yorkshire local transport plan

• Sustainable development - travel plans

Special Educational Needs (SEN) and additional support

• Special educational needs - placement in mainstream schools
• Special educational needs assessment
• Special educational needs statement
• Special educational needs transport

Special needs (support for adults)

• Advocacy Services
• Getting help from Adult Social Services

Special schools

• Schools

Special waste collections

• Household waste special collections for large items
• Refuse - commercial waste - special trade collections

Speed limits

• Roads - safety - cameras
• Roads - speed limits

Spillages

• Refuse - commercial waste - spillage
• Roads - safety - spillages

Sponsorship

• Sponsors - sponsorship opportunities

Sports and recreation

• Education - sports - coaching
• Jobs - sports employment
• Passport to leisure
• Sports - clubs - directory
• Sports - development
• Sports - facilities - information
• Sports - fishing - information
• Sports - golf - municipal courses
• Sports - information and booking
• Sports - pitches and courts

Sports grants and development funds

• Grants - sports

Sports grounds

• Safety certificate - sports grounds - regulated stands

Standards committee

• Council - constitution
• Our Standards

Statistics, trends and forecasting

• Central Research
• Local economy - reports and forecasts
• Statistics - census information
• Statistics - economic information and analysis

Stray or lost dogs

• Animals - Dog Warden Service

Street cafes

• Licences - street café

Street cleaning

• Animals - dog bins
• Markets - cleaning
• Roads - street cleaning programme

Street furniture

• Roads - markings and signage - street name plates
• Roads - street furniture - provision and maintenance
• Roads - traffic lights

Street lighting

• Roads - street lighting

Street numbering and naming

• Planning - street names and numbering - statutory register

Street trading licences

• Illegal street trading
• Licences - street collections
• Licences - street trading

Structure plans

• Land and property - dangerous structures - public safety
• Planning - Local Development Framework

Student finance

• Education grants - student awards
• Education loans - student loan

Student travel passes

• Home to school travel support
• Special educational needs transport

Substance misuse

• Drugs - advice and support

Sulphur dioxide

• Pollution control - air quality

Sunday trading (licensing)

• Licences - sunday trading notification

Support groups

• Alcohol - advice and support
• Asylum seekers - advice and support
• Drugs - advice and support
• Educational support for children in care
• Getting help from Adult Social Services
• Housing Options, Advice & Homelessness Prevention Service
• Social Services Emergency Duty Team

Supporting People

• Housing - social housing policy
• Support services for children and their families

Sure Start

• Children's Centres

Sustainable Community Strategy

• Sustainable Community Strategy
• Sustainable development - general

Sustainable modes of transport strategy

• Sustainable development - travel plans

Swimming

• Children and young people - organised activities
• Mi card
• Older people - activities
• Sports - information and booking

Swimming pools

• Events - What's On

Syringes and needles

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