Our main areas of responsibility
- Adoption and fostering
- Child protection
- Improving the prospects for vulnerable children
- Improving behaviour in schools
- Early years education and child care
- Encouraging children to have a voice
- Looking after children in care
- Improving pupil achievement
- Support for school head teachers
- Improving school attendance
- Providing school places
- Improving school buildings
- Adult education
- Improving e-communication in schools
- Home to school transport
Adult social care and health
- Assessing people’s need for social care
- Help for people to remain in their own homes
- Home care
- Respite care
- Day care
- Residential care
- Reablement at Home via Joint Community Rehabilitation Team (JCR)
- Occupational therapy and home adaptations
- Community safety
- Health and wellbeing in the community
Communities, economy and transport
- Road maintenance
- Traffic safety
- Waste disposal
- Environment
- Passenger transport
- Statutory plans for a better environment for future generations
- Economic development
- Emergency planning
- Trading standards
- Consumer advice
- E-government
- Libraries, information and the arts
- Community planning
- Archives and records
- Registration of births, marriages and deaths
- Managing Council performance
- Personnel and training
- Communications and web services
- Information and communication technologies
- Finance and procurement
- Property
- Legal services
