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    • Births

      Includes registering a birth and ordering certificates

    • Marriages and ceremonies

      Includes ordering certificates and approved premises

    • Deaths

      Includes ordering certificates and tell us once service

  • Social care and health
    • Fostering and adoption

      Includes applying to adopt, becoming a foster carer and private fostering information

    • Carers

      Includes help, advice and support for carers

    • Adult social care

      Includes information for people who are 18 or over who have care and support needs

    • Help to live at home

      Includes equipment, care and support

    • Children’s social care

      Includes help for families and young people

    • Health and wellbeing

      Includes sexual health, preventing substance misuse and healthy workplaces

    • Public health

      Includes health checks, campaigns and mental health support

    • Safeguarding

      Includes protecting adults and children at risk

    • Housing options

      Includes care homes and sheltered housing

    • Specialist Public Health Nursing

      Includes information about health visitors, school nurses and public health nursing

  • Education and families
    • Adult learning

      Includes information about training courses across Somerset

    • Route1 advocacy

      Providing advice and support to children and young people

    • Choosing a school

      Includes information about catchment areas and admissions policies

    • School applications

      Includes information about applying to start school and moving to a different school

    • School life

      Includes term and holiday dates, exclusions and school activities

    • Childcare

      Includes entitlements, the support available and the latest childcare news

    • Fostering and adoption

      Includes applying to adopt, becoming a foster carer and private fostering information

    • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

      Includes our Local Offer and the services available

    • School transport

      Includes information about different types of school transport and how to apply

    • Children

      Includes employing children, child protection and corporate parenting

  • Roads and transport
    • Problems on the road

      Includes how to report potholes, flooding and traffic lights

    • Signs and streetlights

      Includes speed limits, road signs and how to report faulty lights

    • Parking

      Includes paying or challenging a fine, blue badges and permits

    • Public and community transport

      Includes bus passes and park and ride information

    • School transport

      Includes information about different types of school transport and how to apply

    • Road projects

      We deliver Major Highway Schemes which have been identified through the Local Transport Plan (LTP) process

    • Rights of way

      Includes footpaths, bridleways and open access lands

    • Road works and road closures

      Includes information about plans for temporary and new works and closures

    • Road safety

      Includes how we work to make our roads safer

  • Libraries, community and leisure
    • Planning for Brexit

      What we are doing to plan for the UK leaving the European Union

    • Libraries

      Includes library membership, services and events

    • Volunteering

      Includes how to get involved in community activities and projects

    • Heritage

      Includes museums, records and archaeology

    • Safer communities

      Includes making your home safer and community safer

    • Community initiatives

      Includes community initiatives and community right to challenge

  • Waste, planning and land
    • Planning

      Includes applying for planning permission and reporting unauthorised developments

    • Waste

      Includes waste collections and recycling

    • Property

      Includes information about county farms and our land and building assets

    • Flooding and drainage

      Includes how we support flood prevention and planning

    • Rights of way

      Includes footpaths, bridleways and open access lands

    • Countryside

      Includes Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, walking and cycling

    • Emergencies

      Includes information about planning for emergencies

  • Business and economy
    • Do business with the Council

      Includes current business and contact opportunities

    • Supporting businesses

      Includes registering as a childminder and support and advice for businesses

    • Procurement

      Includes how we procure goods, services and works

    • Licences

      Includes approved premises licenses and permission for decorations on the road

  • Our information
    • Freedom of information

      Includes how to ask us questions about what we do

    • How we use your information

      Includes the information we hold about you and how we protect it

    • Accessing our information

      Includes Data Protection and the re-use of our information

    • Have your say

      Includes petitions and ongoing consultations

  • How the council works
    • Our plans

      Includes the County Plan and the Business Plan

    • Democracy

      Includes Councillors, meetings and elections

    • Our finances

      Includes our budgeting and spending information

    • Partnerships and Trusts

      Includes how we work with other organisations

    • Our performance

      Includes how we set and meet our goals and your feedback

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Do business with the Council

Do business with the Council

Supporting businesses

Supporting businesses

Procurement

Procurement

Licences

Licences

Do business with the Council

Pay the Council

Make a payment to the Council using a customer number and invoice reference

Doing business with the Council

Find contract opportunities to do business with the Council

Paying our suppliers

How we pay those that we have purchased goods and services from, or make contributions to

How to tender for business with us

For prospective suppliers interested in doing business with the Council

Community Right to Challenge

The right to express an interest to deliver services on behalf of the Council

Supporting businesses

Business support

We work with external agencies so that Somerset businesses have access to quality business advice and support

Trading Standards and Animal Health and Welfare

Trading standards and animal health and welfare on the joint Devon and Somerset website

Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Strategic Forum

An exchange of information and views for the benefit of the people of Somerset

iAero (Yeovil) Centre

The project will deliver a purpose-built research, design and innovation facility in Yeovil

Somerset Growth Plan

Developed in partnership with Somerset local authorities, business organisations and other key stakeholders

Energy management

Includes advice on saving energy, energy management and funding

Regeneration

Regeneration work brings economic and social activity back to communities that have suffered decline

SomersetWorks – NEETs Project

A project that provides new opportunities for young people in school years 11 to 13

Connecting Devon and Somerset Broadband

Information about the programme to provide superfast broadband infrastructure

Somerset work hub schemes

Establishes flexible business workspaces to meet the needs of micro-businesses and mobile workers

Somerset Scientific Services

Scientific Services provide an extensive range of high quality analytical testing services

Rural Economic Regeneration

We lead a number of initiatives looking to address the problems facing the rural economy

Business Continuity Management

Helps manage risks to the smooth running organisations or delivery of services

Economic statistics

Delivering programmes and projects and work in partnership with public and private sector

Enterprise Hub @ Somerset Energy Innovation Centre (SEIC) Phase 2

Delivering high-quality office and light industrial space to support small and medium-sized enterprises

Somerset Economic Assessment

The Somerset Economic Assessment provides a robust analysis of economic conditions in the county

Visiting Somerset

Promoting Somerset as a great place to visit and stay

EU Funding Programmes 2014 to 2020

Information about European Union funding programmes

Somerset Enterprise Centre Network

Offering businesses across the county workspace solutions and business support

Heart of the South West Inward Investment Support Project

A project to increase foreign direct investment into the HotSW Local Enterprise Partnership area

Heart of the South West Joint Committee

A Joint Committee made up of leaders and lead representatives from each authority

Privacy Notice – Economic and community infrastructure

What we do with your personal data

Privacy Notice – National Apprenticeship Scheme

What we do with your personal data

Somerset Intelligence

Information, statistics, and reports on Somerset, its residents and businesses

Procurement

Procurement information

Details of the procurement information we publish

Commissioning information

We want to become a commissioning driven authority

Joint Strategic Needs Assessments

Commissioning to improve health and social care services and reduce health inequalities

Tendering and procurement strategy

Contract procedure rules and standing orders

Social Value and Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Social Value policy and how we advertise contract opportunities

Licences

Apply for scaffolding licence

Permits for scaffold on the highway are only issued to accredited contractors

Trading Standards and Animal Health and Welfare

Trading standards and animal health and welfare on the joint Devon and Somerset website

Apply for skip licence

Licences for skips on the highway are only issued to accredited contractors

Providing transport

Become a contractor to provide transport services for schools and social care

Somerset Scientific Services

Scientific Services provide an extensive range of high quality analytical testing services
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