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- Benefits
- Bins, recycling and litter
- Garden Waste collection service
- Which bin do I use
- Street cleaning
- Report an issue with a public toilet
- Report a road that requires sweeping
- Report fly-tipping
- Report a public litter bin problem
- Report vandalism, graffiti or fly-posting
- Report litter on the pavement, highway or thrown from a vehicle
- Report dog fouling
- Report discarded needles or syringes
- Report a dead animal
- Organise a community litter pick
- SCRAP - The fight against fly-tipping
- Business waste
- Current campaigns and offers
- Recycling team talks and school visits
- Births, deaths and marriages
- Business, consumers and licences
- Advertise with us
- Business rates
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- County farms
- Low Carbon Dorset
- Digital Dorset
- Dorset and Brexit
- Dorset Property
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- Licences and permits
- Find out which licences you need
- Alcohol and entertainment licences
- Animal licences
- Caravans, mobile residential (park) homes and camping site licences
- Charity collection permits
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- Road and highway licences
- Parking permits
- Pedlar's licence
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- Street cafe (sitting out) licence
- Street trading licence
- Taxi licences
- Wedding venue licence
- Licence registers
- Make a workplace complaint
- Trading Standards
- Animal health
- Trading Standards business advice
- Trading Standards policies and plans
- Trading Standards consumer advice
- 5G RuralDorset
- Doing business with Dorset Council
- UK Shared Prosperity Fund 2022-2025
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- Live well - advice for adults
- Help with living at home
- Choosing care
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- Community Directory
- Have a say on your support
- Blue Badge Scheme
- Moving from children's services to adult social care
- Shared Lives
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- What is easy read
- Getting early help and support
- How to prepare for a preparation for adulthood meeting
- Keep adults safe and stop abuse
- Advice for people going into or leaving a hospital
- Assessment
- Social care support in prisons
- Help for parents with learning disabilities
- Welfare benefits for young people aged 14 to 24 years who are disabled
- Direct payments
- Paying for your own social care (self-funding)
- Deferred payment agreement
- Top-up your care contribution
- People who lack capacity
- Support plan using your budget
- Paying for care at home
- Dorset Safeguarding Adults Board
- Health and social care providers
- A Better Life: Adult social care and housing plan
- Dorset Pledge
- Dorset Care Record
- Accommodation with support
- How adult social care is inspected
- Children and families
- SEND Local Offer
- Education and learning
- Local Offer activities
- Local Offer health
- Local Offer comments, compliments and complaints
- Local Offer transport support for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities
- Local Offer financial support for children, young people with special educational needs or disabilities and their families
- A network of support in SEND
- Children's social care
- Family Hub
- Pregnancy and birth
- Support for families
- Health and wellbeing
- Money and benefits
- Keeping families safe
- Professionals supporting children and families
- Activities for families
- Advice by age
- Find a Family Hub
- Childcare
- Easter in Dorset
- Youth link
- Children's Services digital engagement
- Dorset Combined Youth Offending Service
- Children, young people and families plan 2023 to 2033
- SEND Local Offer
- Climate and ecological emergency
- Council Tax
- Council Tax bands and charges
- Historic charges
- April 2024 to March 2025
- Council Tax bands and charges 2023 to 2024
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- Council Tax bands and charges April 2021 to March 2022
- Council Tax bands and charges April 2020 to March 2021
- Council Tax bands and charges April 2019 to March 2020
- Council Tax bands and charges April 2018 to March 2019
- Council Tax bands and charges April 2017 to March 2018
- March 2017 and before
- Council Tax bands and charges April 2025 to March 2026
- Historic charges
- Discounts and exemptions
- Our budget for 2021-22 explained
- Council Tax bands and charges
- Councillors, committees and elections
- Elections and voting
- Renewing your postal vote
- Forthcoming elections, referenda and polls
- Dorset Council casual vacancies
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- Electoral register
- Register to vote
- How to vote
- Support for disabled voters
- Review of polling districts and polling places
- Community Governance Reviews
- Publication of Verification Number
- Working at elections
- Councillors
- Committees
- Elections and voting
- Countryside, coast and parks
- Rights of way
- Country parks and visitor centres
- Avon Heath Country Park
- Hardy's Birthplace Visitor Centre
- Lodmoor Country Park
- Durlston Country Park
- Moors Valley Country Park and Forest
- Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
- Walking
- Countryside management
- Beaches and coast
- Countryside sites and nature reserves
- Dog walking in Dorset
- Harbours and quays
- Childrens play areas
- Parks and gardens
- Dorset heaths
- Commons and town and village greens
- Get involved
- The Dorset Landscape
- Allotments: contact your town or parish council
- Nature Recovery Dorset
- Dorset's local nature recovery strategy
- Dorset's local nature recovery priorities and activities
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 1 grasslands
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 2 woodlands
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 3 heathlands
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 4 rivers, lakes and wetlands
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 5 coastal
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 6 urban
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 7 farming
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 8 natural processes
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 9 nature-based solution
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 10 nature connection
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 11 species abundance and diversity
- Dorset's local nature recovery priority 12 priority species
- Key pressures and opportunities
- Dorset’s nature recovery maps
- Our shared vision and joint mission
- Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy supporting documents
- Dorset's local nature recovery priorities and activities
- Dorset Local Nature Recovery - Preparing the strategy
- Nature Recovery Dorset Resources
- Dorset's local nature recovery strategy
- Education and training
- Schools and learning
- School transport
- Dorset Music Service
- Adult learning courses
- Dorset Outdoor Education Service
- Training
- The Multiply Initiative
- Professional Driver Training Courses
- Emergencies and severe weather
- Emergencies
- Flooding
- Gritting
- Disrupted services
- Climate and Ecological Emergency
- Grants and funding for individuals
- Decarbonising our estate
- Schools and learning
- Waste reduction
- What you can do - Businesses
- What you can do - Individuals
- Town and Parish Councils
- Community and voluntary groups
- Supporting others
- Council farms
- Generating renewable energy
- Get involved
- Dorset Climate Heroes
- Our plan
- Transforming travel
- Funding climate action
- What you can do - Communities
- Progress so far
- Supporting others
- Grants and funding for communities
- Grants and funding for businesses
- Be winter ready
- Environmental Health
- Housing
- Housing register
- Homelessness and housing advice
- Get help if you are homeless or could lose your home
- Emergency and out of hours help if you have nowhere to stay
- Advice for young people facing homelessness
- What to do if your landlord has served you with notice
- Looking for suitable housing
- Homeless because of domestic abuse
- Housing help for veterans
- Housing help for people leaving care
- Get help with your mortgage
- Problems paying your rent
- Rough sleeping
- Public authorities: duty to refer
- Cost of living help
- Adapting your home
- Housing strategies
- Advice for landlords
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- Financial help
- Empty homes
- Caravans, mobile residential (park) homes and camping
- Jobs and careers
- Rewards and benefits we can offer you
- Our commitment to equality
- Apprenticeship and work experience
- Adult social work jobs in Dorset
- Jobs in Children's Services
- Professional and support careers
- Working in Planning
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- Working in children's services, early years and childcare in Dorset
- Libraries, history and culture
- Libraries
- Local history and heritage
- Dorset History Centre (Archives)
- Search records of births, deaths and marriages
- Arts in Dorset
- Dorset Music Service
- Parking
- Public Health
- Planning, building control and land
- Planning
- Planning Policy
- Building Control
- Local Land Charges
- Street naming and numbering
- The County Farms Estate
- Public land and buildings
- Build your own home
- Commercial property enquiries
- Dorset Property
- Tree preservation orders
- Trees in conservation areas
- High hedges
- The Dorset Landscape
- Broadband guidance for property developers
- Roads, highways and maintenance
- Highway improvements
- Transport planning
- Street lighting in Dorset
- Highways licences
- Dorset Highways services
- Road safety
- Road Safety Strategy 2021 to 2030
- Collision Dashboard 2023
- Road traffic collision map
- 20mph Limits and Zones
- Request new traffic management measures
- Collision data request form
- Report a non-injury collision
- Bikeability cycle training
- Safer routes to school
- School Streets
- Speed limit enforcement
- School Safe Environment Zone
- Permit scheme for roadworks and street works
- Maintenance
- Traffic management
- Gritting
- Highway adoptions
- Highway damage claims
- Highway licence and service charges
- Sport and leisure
- Travel information
- Tourist information
- Your community
- Refugee services in Dorset
- Community safety
- Public toilets
- Dorset and Brexit
- Gypsies and travellers
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- Support for voluntary and community organisations
- The Armed Forces Covenant
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- Community transport directory
- Your council
- About your council
- Dorset Council Plan 2024 to 2029
- Budgets and spending
- Constitution
- Dorset Council news magazine
- Data protection
- Freedom of Information (FOI)
- Responsibilities and salaries of senior staff
- Open data and transparency
- Retention schedule
- Partnerships
- Upcoming elections
- Dorset County Pension Fund
- Join a Teams meeting with Dorset Council
- Information asset register
- Councillors, committees and elections
- Parish and town council A to Z
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- A Big Conversation
- Community Governance Review 2023
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- Dorset Lieutenancy
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- Doing business with Dorset Council
- Informing Dorset
- How your council is performing
- Policies and Strategies Library
- About policies and strategies
- Policies by directorate
- Whole authority policies and strategies
- Place policies and strategies
- People - adults and housing policies and strategies
- People - children policies and strategies
- Chief executives policies and strategies
- Dorset Council Plan policies and strategies
- Public Health policies and strategies
- Corporate services policies and strategies
- Policy Library Search
- All policies in an alphabetical list
- Responses to government consultations
- Productivity Plan 2024 to 2025
- About your council
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