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Services
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Adult Skills and Community Learning
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IT and digital skills courses
- Getting started - ICT and digital skills for me
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- Providing evidence from your Universal Credit account
- A taste of wellbeing course
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- Care training programme
- Adult learning taster sessions
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Adult social care
- Getting adult social care help early
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How we can help with your care needs
- Get a social care assessment
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- Personal budgets for adult social care
- Arranging and paying for your own adult social care support
- Adult social care personal assistants
- Help to make decisions about your care and support
- Hospital care and coming home
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- The Care Act
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- Better Lives programme
- Able Barnsley
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Animal welfare and licences
- Licence to run a business involving animals
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- Report a stray, lost or dangerous dog
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Benefits
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- Resettlement grant for new tenants
- Apply for Council Tax Discretionary Relief
- Send us evidence for Council Tax or a benefit claim
- Get help to claim benefits
- Money and debt advice
- Foodbanks in Barnsley
- More Money in Your Pocket - cost of living support
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Bins, rubbish and recycling
- What goes in your bin
- Ask for a new bin collection
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- Get help to put your bins out
- Order a bin
- Get an extra grey bin
- Report a missed bin
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- Report an abandoned bin
- Ask us to collect large unwanted items
- Clinical waste
- Business waste
- How we manage your waste
- Make the most of recycling
- Find a household waste recycling centre
- What you need to visit a household waste recycling centre
- Frequently asked questions about visiting a household waste recycling centre
- What you can take to the household waste recycling centre
- Recycling banks
- Discarded needles and syringes
- Fly-tipping
- Report a build up of rubbish at a property
- Waste carriers' licences
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- A-Z of waste and recyclable items
- Funding for environmental projects
- Household waste and your duty of care
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Births, deaths and marriages
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Deaths and funerals
- Arranging a burial
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- Bereavement support groups
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- Buying a grave
- Cemetery maintenance and safety
- Exhuming a grave
- Find a cemetery
- Help if there's nobody to arrange a funeral
- Memorials at the crematorium
- Public records of funerals
- The coroner
- Using the Tell Us Once service
- What to do after someone dies
- Register a stillborn baby
- Memorials at the cemetery
- Register a death
- Pet crematorium
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Marriages and civil partnerships
- Plan your ceremony
- Wedding venues in Barnsley
- Book a registrar for your ceremony
- Give notice of a marriage or civil partnership
- Renewing your vows
- Converting a civil partnership to a marriage
- Hear from couples who've had ceremonies with us
- Useful information about marriages and civil partnerships
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Children, families and education
- Adoption
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Childcare, nurseries and family support
- School nursery places
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- Free childcare for two year olds
- Early education funding for three and four year olds
- 30 hours free childcare for three and four year olds
- Family hubs
- Early years pupil premium
- Breakfast clubs
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Early years and childcare professionals
- Meet the Early Years team
- Safeguarding in Early Years settings
- Leadership and management in EYFS
- EYFS reforms
- Starting up as a childminder or childcare business
- Childcare business support
- Statutory assessments for EYFS
- Supporting inclusion in Early Years
- Funding and early years entitlements
- Useful early years information and documents
- Health and safety for early years professionals
- Training and CPD for early years professionals
- Ofsted
- Learning and development in EYFS
- Working with parents in the EYFS
- Working with children in the EYFS
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Children in care and care leavers
- Children in care - information just4u
- Reasons children come into care
- Leaving care - our local offer for care leavers
- Information for birth parents of children in care
- Information for foster carers of children in care
- Information for professionals about supporting children in care
- Placing authorities and children in care
- Barnsley Virtual School
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Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- Getting help if your child has SEN
- Education for children with special educational needs
- Special educational needs assessment
- Education, health and care plans
- SEND parent participation
- SEND strategy, guidance and supporting documents
- Supported internship programme
- SENDIASS advice and support
- Children, Young People and Families Trust
- Children's social care
- Domestic abuse and sexual violence
- Domestic homicide review (DHR)
- Early help for families
- Families Information Service
- Fostering
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Safeguarding families in Barnsley
- Safeguarding adults in Barnsley
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Safeguarding children in Barnsley
- Are you worried about a child?
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- Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Safeguarding children policies and procedures
- Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
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Schools and learning
- 16-19 Bursary Fund
- Barnsley Education Inclusion Services
- Barnsley Education Welfare Service
- Barnsley Schools' Alliance
- Children missing education
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- Education for Traveller children
- Education for children who can't attend school because of health needs
- Educating your child at home
- Excluding pupils from school
- Free school meals
- Get help if you're being bullied
- Healthier Futures Barnsley
- Music education and Barnsley Music Service
- Religious education
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- School finance - section 251 budget and outturn
- School governors
- School meals
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- Schools' assessment and performance
- Schools currently closed
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- Schools Forum
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- Barnsley and Sheffield joint special school
- Further education options after secondary school
- Young people
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Community and volunteering
- Your local area and ward
- Love Where You Live
- Stronger Communities Partnership
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Armed forces
- Celebrate and support our armed forces community
- Armed forces discounts
- Armed Forces Covenant Board
- Armed forces community and relationships
- Armed forces employment, education and skills
- Help with finance and debt for the armed forces community
- Health and wellbeing services for the armed forces community
- Making a home in civilian society
- Veterans and the law
- Armed Forces Walkway
- Welcoming Afghanistan refugees to Barnsley
- LGBT+ community
- Supporting Ukraine
- Community grants
- Get started as a litter picker
- Barnsley independent visitors scheme
- Community Boost project - boosting the growth of good employment
- Assets of community value and right to bid
- Refugee and asylum support
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Community safety and crime
- Anti-social behaviour
- Barnsley Safe Places
- Crime prevention
- Criminal damage
- Hate and harassment
- Hoax calls to emergency services
- Home security
- Environmental crime
- Malicious or nuisance communication
- Neighbour nuisance
- Neighbourhood Watch
- Safer neighbourhood teams
- Solvent abuse
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- Working with communities to tackle crime
- Youth offending
- Lane gating
- Joining Forces
- Vehicle seizures for waste crimes
- Prevent and Channel
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- Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) - Barnsley town centre
- Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) - dog control
- Safer Barnsley Partnership
- Protect Duty
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Council Tax
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- How to pay your Council Tax
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- If you don't pay your Council Tax
- Council Tax appeals
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- Council Tax reminder messaging service
- Tell our Council Tax service about a death
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Health and wellbeing
- Health and wellbeing in Barnsley
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Housing
- Council housing
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- Housing strategies
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Information and privacy
- Your privacy
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Jobs
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- Hear from employees of Barnsley Council
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- Volunteering with Barnsley Council
- Frequently asked questions about jobs with us
- Proud to Care: working in care in Barnsley
- Children's social worker jobs in Barnsley
- 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service roles in Barnsley
- Land and property
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Libraries
- Your library digital hub
- Enriching lives with books, activities and more
- Libraries - The heart of the community
- Libraries - A place to thrive
- Library activities and events
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Find a library
- Library @ the Lightbox
- Library @ Cudworth
- Library @ Darfield
- Library @ Dodworth
- Library @ Goldthorpe
- Library @ Grimethorpe
- Library @ Hoyland
- Library @ Mapplewell and Staincross
- Library @ Penistone
- Library @ Roundhouse
- Library @ Royston
- Library @ Thurnscoe
- Library @ Wombwell
- Library @ Worsbrough
- Library @ Priory
- Join the library
- Volunteer at a library
- Library fees and charges
- Book a room in a library
- Contact the library
- Using a mobility scooter in our libraries
- School visits to a library
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Licensing
- Acupuncture licences
- Caravan sites planning permission
- Charities licences
- Cooling tower registration
- Fly-posting
- Food premises licences
- Gambling licences
- Hypnotism licences
- Personal licences (alcohol)
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Premises licences
- Apply for a premises licence
- Variation to premises licence
- Minor variation to premises licence
- Vary a designated premises supervisor (DPS)
- Transfer a premises licence to another licence holder
- Change a premises licence holder/DPS name or address
- Change a licensed premises name
- Notification of interest in a licensed premises
- Premises licence fees and charges
- Frequently asked questions about premises licence applications
- Premises licence approval process
- Premises licence supporting documents and definitions
- Responsible authorities
- Interim authority notice
- Provisional statement
- Community premises
- Request a copy of a premises licence
- Surrender a premises licence
- Complain about a licensed premises
- Licensing Act 2003
- Review of premises licences and certificates
- Smoking and licensed premises
- Club premises certificate
- Scrap metal dealer licences
- Second hand goods licences
- Sex establishment licences
- Street trading
- Tattooist, piercing and electrolysis licences
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Taxi licences
- Apply for a new taxi driver's licence
- Renew a taxi driver's licence
- Private hire operator licences
- Hackney carriage and private hire vehicle licences
- Update your taxi licence details
- Order taxi licensing items
- Request a replacement taxi driver's badge
- Taxi licence checks
- Hackney carriage fares
- Report an accident involving a taxi
- New taxi rank applications
- Lost property in taxi and private hire vehicles
- National register of taxi licence refusals and revocations (NR3)
- Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for hackney carriage and private hire vehicle licences
- Wheelchair accessible taxi and private hire vehicles
- Taxi licensing concerns and compliments
- Temporary event notices
- Temporary pavement cafe licences
- Lieutenancy of South Yorkshire
- Markets
- Media and advertising
- Museums and galleries
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Our council
- Celebrating 50 years of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
- How the council works
- Council plan
- Barnsley 2030
- Our leadership team and council structure
- Our budgets and finances
- Our performance
- Our environment
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Our strategies
- Key strategies
- Supporting strategies and policies
- Barnsley's cold weather plan
- Digital Barnsley Strategy
- Customer Experience Strategy
- Carers' Strategy
- Adult social care market position statement
- Domestic Abuse Strategy
- Children in care and care leavers strategy 2022-2025
- Barnsley Library Strategy
- SEND Strategy
- Early Help Strategy
- Modern slavery statement
- Barnsley's safer road strategy 2023 to 2033
- Fair cost of care
- Transport strategy
- Our monitoring officer
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Information we publish
- Local Government Transparency Code
- Constitution
- Council land
- Expenditure over £500
- Fraud data
- Government procurement card (GPC)
- Grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
- Barnsley Council organisational chart
- Parking account income and expenditure
- Parking spaces in Barnsley
- Pay policy statements
- Senior officer salaries
- Social housing asset value
- Tenders over £5,000
- Trade union facility time
- Waste contracts
- Gender pay
- Supplier payment performance
- Research, data and statistics
- Standards for the way we work
- Barnsley Town Hall
- Barnsley's twin towns
- Byelaws in force in Barnsley
- Major incident response and resilience planning
- How we deal with fraud
- Mayor of Barnsley
- Councillors and e-democracy
- Attending our council meetings
- Parish and town councils
- Barnsley Youth Council
- Civic receptions and awards
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Parks and green spaces
- Find a park
- Public footpaths and rights of way
- Outdoor activities
- Report a problem with a park or green space
- Management and maintenance of our green spaces
- Tree management and maintenance
- Using our green spaces
- Allotments
- Get involved in our parks and green spaces
- Help us to protect our green spaces from wildfires and heatwaves
- Pest control
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Planning and buildings
- Commercial and housing developments
- Home improvements and building work
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Local planning and development
- Planning policy
- Brownfield land register
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Our Local Plan
- Barnsley's Local Plan
- Local Plan consultations
- Local Plan research and evidence documents
- Green belt review
- Local Plan archaeology reviews
- Masterplan frameworks
- Neighbourhood planning
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Building control
- Find out if you need building approval
- Register street names and numbers
- Submit a Building Control application
- Book a Building Control inspection
- Unauthorised building work
- Get permission to demolish a building
- Report a dangerous building
- Report building site noise or pollution
- Become a Building Control partner
- New building regulations
- Local self-build register
- Planning permission for adverts and signs
- Planning applications for businesses
- Renewable energy
- View or comment on planning applications
- Planning pre-application advice for historic buildings and places
- Planning application fees
- Planning application forms
- Using Planning Explorer
- The planning process
- Carrying out building work without planning permission
- Making a planning appeal
- Apply for planning permission
- High hedge disputes
- Supplementary planning documents
- Development and flood risk
- Sports ground safety
- Report a breach of planning permission
- Apply for a planning conditions check report
- Frequently asked questions about planning
- Town Centre Urban Design and Sustainability Strategy by Urbed
- Pollution
- Regeneration in Barnsley
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Roads, travel and parking
- Public transport
- Traffic lights, road signs and markings
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Roadworks and road maintenance
- Report a damaged bridge
- Report a damaged pavement
- Report a pothole
- Roadworks
- Report a problem with roadworks, closures and diversions
- Report damage to a retaining wall
- Adopted roads
- Barnsley Permit Scheme
- Apply to close a road
- Section 278 agreement for developers
- Investment in our roads and footways
- A635 Goldthorpe Bypass closure
- Parking
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Road licences
- Street displays and advertising boards
- Cellars, pavement lights and ventilation
- Structures above a road
- Licences for roadworks
- Licences for street cafes
- Licences for skip operators
- Licences for scaffolding and hoardings
- Licences for building materials
- Closing a road for an event, street party, parade or demonstration
- Weighbridge operators' licences
- Road safety
- Drainage and flooding
- Street lights, bollards and furniture
- Transport projects
- Abandoned vehicles
- Gritting
- Getting to Barnsley
- Traffic Regulation Orders
- South Yorkshire Governance
- Streetcare and cleaning
- Sport and leisure
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Training and development
- Learn and improve your digital skills with us
- Learning for the Future Assessment Centre
- Skills and employability
- Inclusive Offer - extra support for work
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Visit Barnsley
- Shopping and retail in Barnsley town centre
- Eating out and nightlife in Barnsley town centre
- Culture, theatre and museums in Barnsley
- Family days out in Barnsley
- What people love about Barnsley
- Barnsley Gift Card
- COVID memorial sculpture
- Evening and night-time town centre safety
- Market Gate Bridge
- Promotional opportunities on Barnsley’s high streets
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Voting and elections
- Annual canvass review of the electoral register
- Electoral register
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Election results
- Local government elections - 3 May 2012
- Police and crime commissioner elections - 15 November 2012
- Wombwell ward by-election - 26 September 2013
- Royston ward by-election - 10 October 2013
- European Parliamentary election - 22 May 2014
- Penistone West ward by-election - 10 July 2014
- Police and crime commissioner by-election - 30 October 2014
- Parish council elections - 7 May 2015
- Local government elections - 7 May 2015
- Dearne by-election - 27 August 2015
- Police and crime commissioner elections - 5 May 2016
- Local government elections - 5 May 2016
- UK Parliamentary election - 8 June 2017
- Kingstone ward by-election - 28 September 2017
- Rockingham ward by-election - 14 December 2017
- Local government and Mayoral Combined Authority elections - 3 May 2018
- Old Town ward by-election - 12 July 2018
- Local government elections - 2 May 2019
- European Parliamentary election – 23 May 2019
- UK Parliamentary election – 12 December 2019
- Local government and police and crime commissioner elections - 6 May 2021
- Local government elections - 5 May 2022
- Local government and parish elections - 4 May 2023
- Types of elections
- Voting
- Voting by post
- Voting by proxy
- Publication of 5% electorate figure for petitions
- Working at the elections
- Silkstone Neighbourhood Plan referendum
- Polling district and station review 2023
- Notice of councillor vacancy for Darton East ward
- Notice of councillor vacancy for Kingstone ward
- Local Government and South Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayoral Elections - Thursday 2 May 2024
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