Local councils and services

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Services

• Find out your rubbish collection day

  Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected

• Apply for a Council Tax discount

  Check with your council if you're eligible for a discount on your Council Tax

• Apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant

  Apply for financial help to make your home suitable for a disabled person

• Recycling collections

  Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste

• Find your local councillors

  Find out who your local councillor is

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Guidance and regulation

• Who can get a Blue Badge
  • Guidance
  • 10 August 2021
  • Department for Transport
• Exceptional financial support for local authorities for 2024-25
  • Detailed guide
  • 29 February 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Running a Blue Badge parking scheme
  • Guidance
  • 16 May 2022
  • Department for Transport
• Best value standards and intervention: a statutory guide for best value authorities
  • Statutory guidance
  • 8 May 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Housing Benefit guidance for supported housing claims
  • Guidance
  • 25 May 2022
  • Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

• Runnymede Borough Council: Best Value Notice
  • 19 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• Eastleigh Borough Council: Best Value Notice
  • 19 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• London Borough of Croydon: Ministerial response to the Improvement and Assurance Panel’s eighth report and subsequent letter
  • 12 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Correspondence
• Nottingham City Council: Ministerial response to Commissioners’ first report
  • 12 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Correspondence
• Warrington Borough Council: Letter to the Chief Executive extending the time period for the Best Value Inspection (26 November 2024)
  • 26 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• London Borough of Croydon Improvement and Assurance Panel: eighth report and subsequent letter
  • 12 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Independent report
• Nottingham City Council: Commissioners' first report
  • 12 December 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Independent report
• NI local authority collected waste management statistics 2023/24
  • 28 November 2024
  • Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Woking Borough Council: Commissioners’ third report
  • 20 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Independent report
• London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Best Value Inspection report
  • 12 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

• Best value standards and intervention - a statutory guide for best value authorities: consultation
  • 8 May 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 15 August 2023
• Proposals for locally-led reorganisation of local government in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset
  • 22 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 19 April 2021
• Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report
  • 25 March 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper
• Landfill tax grant scheme: call for evidence
  • 15 March 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Call for evidence outcome

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• A letter from the Chair, CSPL, to Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP
  • 2 December 2024
  • Committee on Standards in Public Life
  • Transparency
• Northern Ireland Office: Workforce Management Information: July 2021
  • 25 October 2021
  • Northern Ireland Office
  • Transparency
• Strategic planning of library services: longer-term, evidence-based sustainable planning toolkit
  • 14 November 2017
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Planning Inspectorate
• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Work & Pensions

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• Department for Education
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Cabinet Office
• Home Office
• Valuation Office Agency
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• Building Digital UK
• Central Digital & Data Office
• Department for Business & Trade
• Disability Unit
• HM Treasury
• Ministry of Defence
• Northern Ireland Office
• Committee on Standards in Public Life

• Ofsted
• Environment Agency