- A child taking part in a performance, which can include TV or filming, theatre, sporting activities or modeling, will require chaperoning.
- A local authority or a parish council may, and if required by the Minister shall, provide:
- Access Orders and Agreements
- Access to Access Land
- Acquisition and Disposal of land - for the purposes of its functions under any enactment, for the benefits, improvement or development of its area whether immediately required or not
- Acquisition of land - for planning purposes, development or redevelopment
- Acquisition/management of buildings of special architectural or historic interest
- Action re Schools in Special Measures or requiring significant improvement
- Adoption of private street following streetworks
- Adoption Service
- Advance payments code
- Advice re Regional Spatial Strategy
- Advice/information to parents on special needs
- After-care of patients leaving hospital
- Agricultural Analyst
- Allotments - duty to provide sufficient allotment gardens to meet the demand
- Alteration/replacement of structure plans
- Annual Library Plan
- Annual review of child care provision and establishment/maintenance of information service
- Applications to court for Care or Supervision Orders
- Applications to court for Education Supervision Orders
- Appoint a Local Fisheries Committee
- Appointment and payment of Coroners
- Appointment and payment of Magistrates Clerks
- Appointment of chair of the council
- Appointment of inspectors etc for execution and enforcement of Animal Health Act
- Appointment of visitors for looked after children
- Appointment of wardens for PROW
- Approved Social Workers (MHA)
- Archives Service
- Archives Service
- Arrangements for encouraging and assisting pupils in provision of medical/dental inspection and treatments
- Arrangements for promoting co-operation with Children's Services partners
- Arranging for statemented children to attend institution outside England and Wales
- Arranging special educational provision and non-educational provision under statement
- Assertion and protection of public right to use and enjoyment of highway
- Assessment for any provision of community care services
- Assessment of carers
- Assessment of educational needs
- Assessment of educational needs of children under 2
- Assessment of needs of mentally disordered patients prior to discharge from hospital
- Assessment of persons with parental responsibility for disabled children
- Assessment, planning and advice re emergencies
- Assistance to carers
- Assistance with travel arrangements for children receiving nursery education
- Assisting with travel arrangements for children receiving nursery education otherwise than at school
- Best Value Performance Plan
- Byelaws for Access Land
- Byelaws for walkways
- Care of expectant and nursing mothers
- Carrying out of work to mitigate adverse effect of road improvement
- Charges for board and lodging at Boarding Schools
- Charging for education outside school hours
- Charging for optional extras
- Chief Education Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Fire Officer
- Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures
- Children's Services Plan
- Community Care Plan
- Compulsory Purchase - various powers under general, housing, planning and highways powers
- Conformity with Education (School Premises) Regs
- Consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or diversion of highway
- Construction of new highway
- Consumer protection - Weights and Measures - duty to enforce the provisions of Construction Product Regulations 1991
- Contribution to cost of accommodation etc of child subject to residential order
- Contribution to cost of streetworks in private street
- Contribution to expenses of other authorities in highways functions
- Control and regulation of performing animals
- Co-ordination of execution of streetworks
- Creation of footpaths/bridleways
- Creation of walkways by agreement
- Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy
- Dealing with fly-tipping of controlled waste
- Default powers for privately maintained Highways
- Defraying costs of Parish Councils in maintaining footpaths and bridleways
- Determination of Development County 'county matters'
- Determination of political groups
- Determining needs of disabled persons
- Direct payments to carers to meet their assessed needs
- Director of Social Services
- Disabled Facilities Grants service - duty to provide grats to qualifying eprsons
- Disabled Persons Badge Scheme
- Dispute resolution arrangements for SEN
- Drainage of highways
- Duties relating to applications for listed building consent and conservation area consent.
- Duties relating to the making of determinations of planning applications.
- Duty at the request of the designated Minister, to take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that plans can be carried out
- Duty for ensuring that their districts are kept, as far as is practicable, free of rodents.
- Duty to (a) determine its policy with respect to the exercise of its licensing functions, and (b) publish a statement of that policy (a 'licensing statement') before the beginning of the period.
- Duty to acknowledge receipt of a temporary event notice
- Duty to administer and enforce
- Duty to administer and enforce the Clean Air Act 1993
- Duty to administer and enforce the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992
- Duty to administer authorisations for prescribed processes
- Duty to administer the housing and council tax benefits schemes for certain low income occupiers
- Duty to administer the system of grant aid for dwellinghouses
- Duty to annually consider housing conditions in their district to determine what action to take under houses in multiple occupation
- Duty to appoint an electoral registration officer.
- Duty to appoint returning officer for local government elections
- Duty to approve authority's statement of accounts, income and expenditure and balance sheet or record of receipts and payments (as the case may be).
- Duty to approve council's statement of accounts, income and spending and balance sheet, or record of payments and receipts
- Duty to arrange for the collection of commercial waste where requested to do so by an occupier
- Duty to arrange for the collection of household waste in its area
- Duty to arrange for the disposal of controlled waste collected in its area
- Duty to arrange for the provision of places at which residents in its area may deposit their household waste and for the disposal of waste so deposited
- Duty to arrange proper financial administration
- Duty to arrange the training of an appropriate number of officers and such other persons as it considers necessary for the purposes of carrying out its plans or from discharging its other civil defence functions
- Duty to assert and protect the rights of the public to use and enjoyment of highways.
- Duty to cause inspections to be made of its area to determine the existence of statutory nuisances and to take steps to see that they are abated
- Duty to collect and detain stray animals (mainly dogs)
- Duty to comply with any directions from the designated minister
- Duty to consider hedgerow removal notices
- Duty to consider housing conditions
- Duty to consider the need for the provision of further housing
- Duty to consult on transport proposals
- Duty to consult other litter authorities within the County about steps to be taken to abate litter in the county and to maintain a statement of the agreed steps to be taken
- Duty to consult representatives of non-domestic rate payers in regard to their expenditure
- Duty to consult with tenants on matters of housing management (other than rents and other charges)
- Duty to contribute towards the spiritual, moral, mental and physical development of the community be securing that efficient education for primary, secondary and further education stages, shall be available to meet the needs of the population of their area
- Duty to deal with noise
- Duty to declare vacancy in office in certain cases.
- Duty to deliver for disposal all waste collected to such place as the waste disposal authority directs
- Duty to designate Air Management Areas where necessary
- Duty to designate head of paid service and provide resources
- Duty to designate monitoring officer and provide resources
- Duty to determine an application for a personal licence
- Duty to determine applications for a certificate of lawfulness of existing use or development
- Duty to determine applications for club premises certificates
- Duty to determine applications for entry onto and to maintain a register of food premises and to make this available for public inspection
- Duty to determine applications for entry onto and to maintain a register of knackers yard premises
- Duty to determine applications for entry onto and to maintain a register of persons authorised to sell Part II poisons
- Duty to determine applications for hazardous substance consent
- Duty to determine applications for listed building consent and to do so with reagrd to policy
- Duty to determine applications for planning permission and to do so with reagrd to policy eg the LDF and Structure Plan
- Duty to determine applications for premises licences
- Duty to determine applications for Tree Preservation Order consent
- Duty to determine conditions to which old mining permissions, relevant planning permissions relating to dormant sites or active Phase I or II sites, or mineral permissions relating to mining sites, as the case may be, are to be subject.
- Duty to determine whether any contaminated land should be designated a Special site and if so, to take action
- Duty to discover overcrowding and submit proposals to the Secretary of State for its abatement
- Duty to divide constituency into polling districts
- Duty to divide electoral divisions into polling districts
- Duty to educate children with SEN in mainstream schools
- Duty to enforce and execute the provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990
- Duty to enforce orders made under s13 of the Animal Health Act 1981
- Duty to enforce Part II of the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995
- Duty to enforce prohibition on smoking in enclosed public places
- Duty to enforce the provisions of Orders made under s22 of the Fair Trading Act 1973
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (jointly with the Director General of Fair Trading)
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (misleading prices)
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (unsafe goods)
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Food Labelling Regulations 2006
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Hallmarking Act 1973
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Recreational Craft Regulation 1996
- Duty to enforce the provisions of the Trade Descriptions Acts 1968 to 1972
- Duty to enforce the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984
- Duty to ensure that schools are adequately governed
- Duty to ensure the provision of public passenger transport services for Greater London
- Duty to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that precribed types of land are kept clear
- Duty to enter into arrangements with a water undertake for receipt of notice of any problem with the water suppy that could could give rise to a risk to health
- Duty to establish a Licensing Committee
- Duty to formulate general policies with respect to the description of of public passenger services
- Duty to furnish the Secretary of State with such facilities, and information as he may reasonably require for the inspection of library premises, stocks and records
- Duty to give public notice of a casual vacancy.
- Duty to have proper practices in regard to revenue accounts and capital expenditure
- Duty to have regard to every local improvement target specified in the local area agreement
- Duty to have regard to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of such an area when exercising planning control functions
- Duty to help in European parliamentary elections
- Duty to hold Citizenship Ceremonies
- Duty to implement a Common Assessment Framework - the CAF is a generic assessment for children with additional needs, which can be used by practitioners across all children's services in all local areas in England.
- Duty to inspect its area from time to time for the purpose of identifying contaminated land
- Duty to keep a definitive map and statement under review.
- Duty to keep a register containing a record of each premises licence, club premises certificate and personal licence issued by it,
- Duty to keep a register of shops upon whom notices have been served in relation to Sunday trading
- Duty to keep accounts of receipts to and payments out of Funds
- Duty to keep list of persons entitled to sell non-medicinal poisons.
- Duty to keep register of food business premises.
- Duty to lend books and other materials to those who live or work in their areas or whom study in their area full time
- Duty to maintain a General Fund and Collection Fund
- Duty to maintain a public register of litter control area designation notices and street litter control notices
- Duty to maintain a register of applications and decisions
- Duty to maintain a register of applications for consent and decisions
- Duty to maintain a register of dairy premises
- Duty to maintain a register of qualifying persons (the Housing register)
- Duty to maintain and keep in good repair (excludes trunk roads which are the responsibility of the Secretary of State) (includes bridges and level crossings)
- Duty to maintain educational and curriculum records for every pupil
- Duty to maintain Revenue Accounts in respect of rate funds
- Duty to maintain the County fund
- Duty to maintain the register of Common Lodging Houses and administer registration
- Duty to maintain the Register of Commons
- Duty to maintain the Register of Local Land Charges and to keep an index whereby all entries can easily be traced
- Duty to maintain the registers of births, marriages and deaths and to keep indices whereby all entries can easily be traced
- Duty to make appropriate arrangements to empty, without charge, privies and cesspools
- Duty to make arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the way in which its functions are exercised, having regard to a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness
- Duty to make payments to precepting bodies from the Collection Fund
- Duty to make reports assessing the levels of road traffic and forecasting their growth
- Duty to make, keep under review and from time to time amend the Local Development Framework
- Duty to make, keep under review and revise plans for its area and to carry out exercises based upon such plans
- Duty to notify the water undertake of anything which suggests that the supply of water has become unwholesome or insufficient for domestic purposes
- Duty to notify with the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission before determining an application in certain circumstances
- Duty to pay compensation for revocation or modification of planning permission
- Duty to prepare a bus strategy
- Duty to prepare a joint strategic needs assessment with partner PCTs
- Duty to prepare and review of Local Transport Plans
- Duty to promote and support the involvement of people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services whether, and how, local care services could be improved and whether, and how, local care services ought to be improved.
- Duty to proper arrangements for administration of financial affairs
- Duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient service
- Duty to provide alternative accommodation to persons displaced by public action
- Duty to provide environmental information
- Duty to provide facilities for recreation and physical training
- Duty to provide information about repairing obligations
- Duty to provide resources to a person named by the monitoring officer
- Duty to provide standards of weights and measures
- Duty to provide written statement of terms of tenancy to a tenant
- Duty to publicise listed building applications
- Duty to publicise planning applications
- Duty to publish a notice of Council Tax and Non Domestic Rates amounts
- Duty to publish a statement of its policies
- Duty to publish a summary of the rules relating to allocations, transfers and exchanges
- Duty to publish information about a local area agreement
- Duty to publish minutes, agendas and reports etc
- Duty to purchase interests adversely affected by proposals in Structure Plan or Local Development Framework (Blight)
- Duty to reclassify roads used as public paths.
- Duty to record all burials in a register of public burials
- Duty to reduce the causes of congestion and disruption on the road network, by co-ordinating and managing road and street works effectively, the management of incidents, event planning, the control of parking and the network as a whole
- Duty to refer rents to the Rent Officer to assess whether a rent for which housing benefit is claimed is a fair rent
- Duty to register burials according to the rites of the Church of England under the Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978
- Duty to remove a vehicle which is abandoned in their area, on any land in the open air, or on any other land forming part of a highway.
- Duty to report annually to tenants on performance
- Duty to require the governing body of a school to consider the authority's policy statement and their own secular aims and to make and mainatain their own statement
- Duty to review rents periodically
- Duty to review the quality and likely future quality of air in its area and to identify areas where targets are not being achieved
- Duty to secure accommodation for a qualifying homeless person (as defined) or to provide advise and assistance where suitable accommodation is available within the the district
- Duty to secure passenger transport services in accordance with its policies
- Duty to secure the provision of public passenger transport services
- Duty to serve a demand notice for Council tax and non-domestic rates
- Duty to set a Council tax
- Duty to set sums aside to meet credit liabilities
- Duty to sign post public paths, bridleways and byways wherever they leave a metalled road
- Duty to submit a draft Local Area Agreement to the Secretary of State
- Duty to supply information to the County Council or to assist the County Council in making or revising plans, on taking preparatory steps, or in carrying ouy those plans and to arrange for an appropriate nuber of suitable members of its staff to discharge its civil defence functions and these available to the County Council
- Duty to take all such steps as it considers appropriate to keep itself informed about the wholesomeness and suffiency of both public an dprivate water supplies that are made to premises in its area
- Duty to transfer to the General Fund of the Council tax amount
- Duty to undertake street naming and numbering for thecouncil's area.
- Duty, in an Air Management Area, to make an air quality assessment, report on its results and prepare an action plan for its objectives in the designated area
- Early Years Development Plan
- Education - duty to ensure that every school curriculum is balanced and broadly based
- Education - duty to ensure that statutory requirements regarding collective worship and religious education are adhered to
- Education - to determine and keep under review policies on the secular curriculum
- Education "otherwise"
- Education Development Plan
- Educational conference
- Educational research
- Electoral procedures
- Employment of disabled persons (sheltered employment)
- Enforcement of Animal Health legislation
- Enforcement of child employment restrictions
- Enforcement of planning control
- Enforcement of provision of Weights and Measures Act 1985
- Enforcement of school attendance including the taking of certain actions if it appears that a child is not being properly educated
- Enquiries into welfare of children subject to Emergency Protection Orders etc
- Establishment of Admissions Forum
- Establishment of Early Years Development and Child Care Partnership
- Establishment of local Access Forum
- Establishment of Schools Forum
- Financial assistance etc to voluntary organisations providing welfare services
- Fire and Rescue Service
- Functions as respects persons employed as members of fire brigades maintained pursuant to section 4 of the Fire Services Act 1947.
- Functions in relation to parishes and parish councils.
- Functions of Mineral and Planning Authority
- Functions relating to local government pensions, etc.
- Functions relating to sea fisheries.
- Functions to be exercised with view to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children
- Functions under any of the relevant statutory provisions within the meaning of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc.
- Gathering and publication of information re disabled persons and services
- Gating Orders
- Giving notice of a casual vacancy
- Granting of streetworks licences and enforcement of streetworks regime
- Guardianship under MHA
- Hold an Annual meeting
- Housing Finance - maintain a Housing Revenue Account
- Identifying children with SEN
- Identity of children in need in area and publication of information re services
- Improvement of highways
- Inspection of schools for specific purposes
- Intervention in "failing" schools
- Investigation of fires
- Issue of fire certificates and enforcement of FP legislation
- Issue of safety certificates for large sports grounds
- Issue of safety certificates for stands at sports grounds
- Keeping highway and other land clean and clear of litter and refuse
- Licensing of houses in multiple occupation
- Local Safeguarding Children's Board
- Local Strategic Partnership
- Maintaining flow of watercourses
- Maintenance and continuous review of Definitive Map and Statements of PROW
- Maintenance and funding of schools
- Maintenance of discipline in schools
- Maintenance of highways
- Maintenance of Streetworks Register
- Maintenance of the definitive maps and statements of rights of way
- Making arrangements for consideration/determination of complaints
- Making arrangements re School Admissions, including appeals
- Making of Traffic Regulation Orders
- Making up new footpaths and bridleways to fit condition
- Making-up and adoption of private streets
- Management of road network (and appointment of traffic manager)
- Neighbourhood Development
- Neighbourhood Forum Grants
- Officer to deal with stray dogs
- Parish and parish council responsibilities
- Payment of allowances to Governors
- Payment of fees at non-maintained schools
- Payment of school expenses; grant of scholarship
- Payment of travelling expenses etc to parents of looked after children
- Payments in respect of delayed discharges from hospital
- Permit schemes for specified works
- Planning - Development - duty to consult with the County Council before determining any application which may affect the implementation of the structure plan
- Planning and preparation for civil defence (emergency planning) purposes
- Plans and alterations which together comprise the Development Plan
- Power for parish council to contribute to expense relating to scheme for the regulation and management of a common
- Power of register and license premises for the preparation of food.
- Power supply in part of highway.
- Power supply on footpaths or bridleways.
- Power supply over highways.
- Power supply under street.
- Power supply under streets, and pavement lights and ventilators.
- Power to abolish small parish councils
- Power to accept gifts
- Power to accept gifts of land
- Power to acquire and maintain
- Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of
- Power to acquire land and maintain for public open space
- Power to acquire land for or to provide public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them
- Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials
- Power to apply for a parenting order to help address children's behaviour in school
- Power to apply for an injunction in relation to a listed building.
- Power to apply for an injunction restraining a breach of planning control.
- Power to appoint proper officers
- Power to appoint staff and to set their terms and conditions (including procedures for dismissing them
- Power to appropriate land acquired for one function to the use of another function
- Power to approve dairy establishments.
- Power to approve dispatch or purification centres.
- Power to approve egg product establishments.
- Power to approve factory vessels and fishery product establishments.
- Power to approve fish products premises.
- Power to approve meat product premises.
- Power to approve premises for the production of minced meat or meat preparations.
- Power to approve premises for the solemnisation of marriages.
- Power to assign officers in relation to requisitions of the registration officer.
- Power to authorise entry onto land.
- Power to borrow money for the purpose of providing a public electronic communications network or public electronic communications service
- Power to change the name of a county, district or London borough.
- Power to change the name of a parish.
- Power to charge for discretionary services
- Power to charge for services rendered, documents issued or other things done for which thre is no existing power to charge
- Power to close schools and associated procedures
- Power to complain to highway authority as to unlawful stopping up or obstruction of highway or unlawful encroachment on roadside wastes
- Power to confer title of honorary alderman or to admit to be an honorary freeman.
- Power to consent to temporary deposits or excavations in streets.
- Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries
- Power to create footpaths and bridleways.
- Power to deal with ponds and ditches
- Power to declare council seats empty
- Power to decline to determine application for planning permission.
- Power to determine application for listed building consent, and related powers.
- Power to determine application for planning permission made by a local authority, alone or jointly with another person.
- Power to determine application for planning permission.
- Power to determine applications for conservation area consent.
- Power to determine applications for hazardous substances consent, and related powers.
- Power to determine applications to develop land without compliance with conditions previously attached.
- Power to dispense with obligation to erect hoarding or fence.
- Power to dispose of land
- Power to dissolve small parish councils.
- Power to divert footpaths and bridleways.
- Power to do anything which is calculated to facilitate or is conducive or incidental to the discharge of their duties
- Power to do anything which it considers is likely to achieve any one of more of the following:
- Power to do for a commercial purpose anything they are authorised to do for the purpose of carrying on their 'ordinary functions'
- Power to encourage visitors and provide conference and other facilities
- Power to enforce byelaws made by another authority
- Power to enter into agreement as to dedication and widening
- Power to enter into agreement regulating development or use of land.
- Power to execute urgent works.
- Power to fill empty seats on parish councils when there are not enough nominations
- Power to grant a street works licence.
- Power to grant consent for the display of advertisements.
- Power to grant consent for the operation of a loudspeaker.
- Power to grant minibus permits to voluntary/community groups
- Power to grant permission to create a vehicular access crossing. This allows them to gain access for a vehicle from the road to their property.
- Power to grant permits in respect of premises with amusement machines.
- Power to grant planning permission for development already carried out.
- Power to grant track betting licences.
- Power to improve and adapt land for allotments, and to let grazing rights
- Power to issue a certificate of existing or proposed lawful use or development.
- Power to issue a closing order to a takeaway food shop
- Power to issue a licence to move cattle from a market.
- Power to issue a notice to control pollution ( noise and air quality) on a construction site
- Power to issue an enforcement notice.
- Power to issue cinema and cinema club licences.
- Power to issue enforcement notice in relation to demolition of unlisted building in conservation area.
- Power to issue entertainments licences.
- Power to issue fire certificates.
- Power to issue fixed penalty notices for littering
- Power to issue fixed penalty notices for removal of graffiti or flyposting
- Power to issue graffiti removal notice
- Power to issue licences authorising the use of land as a caravan site (site licences).
- Power to issue licences for the movement of pigs.
- Power to issue licences to retail butchers' shops carrying out commercial operations in relation to unwrapped raw meat and selling or supplying both raw meat and ready-to-eat foods.
- Power to issue theatre licences.
- Power to licence premises and operators of massage and special treatments
- Power to licence private hire vehicles
- Power to license agencies for the supply of nurses.
- Power to license collecting centres for the movement of pigs.
- Power to license dangerous wild animals.
- Power to license dealers in game and the killing and selling of game.
- Power to license drivers of hackney carriages and private hire vehicles.
- Power to license hackney carriages
- Power to license inter-track betting schemes.
- Power to license knackers' yards.
- Power to license market and street trading.
- Power to license night cafes and take-away food shops.
- Power to license operators of hackney carriages and private hire vehicles.
- Power to license performances of hypnotism.
- Power to license persons to collect for charitable and other causes.
- Power to license pet shops and other establishments where animals are bred or kept for the purposes of carrying on a business.
- Power to license pleasure boats and pleasure vessels.
- Power to license premises for acupuncture, tattooing, ear-piercing and electrolysis.
- Power to license premises for the breeding of dogs.
- Power to license scrap yards.
- Power to license sex shops and sex cinemas.
- Power to license the employment of children.
- Power to license the sale of pigs.
- Power to license the use of moveable dwellings and camping sites.
- Power to license zoos.
- Power to light roads and public places
- Power to maintain footpaths and bridle-ways
- Power to maintain, repair, protect and alter war memorials
- Power to make an order identifying a place as a public place for the purposes of police powers to deal with street drinking
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to Baths and washhouses
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to Cycle parks
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to Mortuaries and post-mortem rooms
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to Open spaces and burial grounds
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to pleasure grounds
- Power to make bye-laws in regard to Public Conveniences
- Power to make contract rules
- Power to make determinations, give approvals and agree certain other matters relating to the exercise of permitted development rights.
- Power to make limestone pavement order.
- Power to make orders for grouping parishes, abolishing groups or separating parishes from groups
- Power to make orders for grouping parishes, dissolving groups and separating parishes from groups.
- Power to make payments or provide other benefits in cases of maladministration etc.
- Power to make proposals for pilot schemes for local elections
- Power to make standing orders
- Power to make standing orders as to contracts.
- Power to make temporary appointments to parish councils
- Power to make, amend, revoke or re-enact byelaws
- Power to order removal or exhumation of a dead body
- Power to participate in schemes of collective investment
- Power to pay electoral registration officer's expenses
- Power to pay subscriptions to Local Government Associations
- Power to permit a temporary obstruction of the highway.
- Power to permit deposit of builder's skip on highway.
- Power to petition for a charter to confer borough status.
- Power to plant trees and lay out grass verges etc. and to maintain them
- Power to promote or oppose local or personal bills
- Power to promote or oppose local or personal bills
- Power to provide
- Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or recreational objectives
- Power to provide and maintain shelters
- Power to provide buildings for public meetings and assemblies
- Power to provide compensation when there has been maladministration
- Power to provide driver training
- Power to provide grant assistance to registered social landlords for the provision of social housing (the Social Housing Grant)
- Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps
- Power to provide museums and galleries
- Power to provide pedestrian crossings (inc. school crossings)
- Power to provide public clocks
- Power to provide roadside seats and shelters
- Power to provide traffic signs and other objects or devices warning of danger
- Power to provide travel concessions
- Power to provides goods and services in certain circumstances
- Power to register and license persons wishing to store explosives and sell fireworks
- Power to register animal trainers and exhibitors.
- Power to register auction and wholesale markets.
- Power to register common land or town or village greens, except where the power is exercisable solely for the purpose of giving effect to -
- Power to register door staff.
- Power to register fishing vessels on board which shrimps or molluscs are cooked.
- Power to register food business premises.
- Power to register pool promoters.
- Power to register societies wishing to promote lotteries.
- Power to register variation of rights of common.
- Power to request a reparation order
- Power to request an Action Plan Order to prevent re-offending by ensuring that the young person complies with the requirements of a plan
- Power to require proper maintenance of land.
- Power to require the discontinuance of a use of land.
- Power to sanction use of parts of buildings for storage of celluloid.
- Power to serve a building preservation notice, and related powers.
- Power to serve a completion notice.
- Power to serve a planning contravention notice, breach of condition notice or stop notice.
- Power to set fares for private hire and hackney carriage vehicles
- Power to set fees and conditions for receiving elections documents
- Power to specify how people should separate their waste, which bin it should be placed in and on which day it will be collected
- Power to stop up footpaths and bridleways.
- Power to submit proposals to the Secretary of State for an order under section 10 of the Representation of the People Act 2000.
- Power to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water from them
- Powers as to maintenance of closed churchyards
- Powers in relation to car-sharing schemes, taxi fare concessions and information about transport
- Powers in relation to providing common pasture
- Powers in respect of holding of elections.
- Powers relating to provision of public baths, washhouses and bathing huts
- Powers relating to provision of public conveniences
- Powers relating to scrutiny committees (voting rights of co-opted members)
- Powers relating to the preservation of trees.
- Powers relating to the protection of important hedgerows.
- Powers relating to the removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance.
- Powers to acquire a listed building in need of repair and to serve a repairs notice.
- Powers to contract under which assets or services or both are made available in relation to the discharge of the functions of the authority
- Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes
- Powers to direct as to the custody of council documents
- Powers to do with holding elections
- Powers to govern how householders store and dispose of their waste
- Powers to install and maintain equipment and establish and maintain a scheme for detection or prevention of crime
- Powers to make grants for bus services
- Powers to promote
- Powers to protect important hedgerows
- Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms
- Powers to provide parking places for bicycles and motor-cycles, and other vehicles
- Powers to undertake coast protection works, that is works to prevent erosion and encroachment by the sea,
- Powers with regard to regulating abnormal loads on the highway
- Powerto grant licences/concents for any display or temporary construction that may project onto or over the highway
- Pre application planning advice
- Preparation and implementation of accessibility strategy for schools
- Preparation and review of structure plans
- Preparation of Behavioural Difficulties Plan
- Preparation of Early Years Development and Child Care Plan
- Preparation of education development plan
- Preparation of Financial Scheme for School
- Preparation of Minerals/Waste Development Scheme
- Preparation of register of electors
- Preparation of report/target setting re levels of road traffic
- Preparation of School Organisation Plan
- Preparing and maintaining Statement of Need
- Prevention of misleading notices on public paths
- Prevention of unlawful interference etc with the highway
- Prohibition of private fostering
- Promotion of economic development of the area
- Promotion of fire safety
- Provision and control of off street parking places
- Provision and control of on street parking places
- Provision and publication of information about services
- Provision for clothing
- Provision for disabled children
- Provision for prevention of illness, care and after-care services
- Provision of accommodation and maintenance for looked after children
- Provision of accommodation for children in need
- Provision of accommodation for children in police protection or detention or on remand
- Provision of accommodation for other children
- Provision of accommodation for post 16s in community homes
- Provision of accommodation, meals and refreshments on long distance routes
- Provision of Adoption Support Services
- Provision of advocacy services
- Provision of board and lodging other than at school
- Provision of boating pools
- Provision of bus shelters
- Provision of care outside school hours or in holidays
- Provision of 'Civic Amenity' sites for household waste
- Provision of community homes
- Provision of country parks etc
- Provision of direct payments
- Provision of education at non-maintained schools (fee paying)
- Provision of entertainment and support of the arts
- Provision of facilities for keeping, storage of animals etc
- Provision of Family Centres
- Provision of fire fighting
- Provision of footways and guard-rails etc
- Provision of goods and services in connection with special needs
- Provision of HGV parking areas
- Provision of highway lighting
- Provision of home help and laundry facilities
- Provision of information to the public
- Provision of information, advice and training re child minding and day care
- Provision of inspection services
- Provision of litter bins
- Provision of meals at non-maintained schools
- Provision of other services by F&R Service
- Provision of parking places as bus or coach station
- Provision of posts to indicate depth of flood water
- Provision of public conveniences for users of roads
- Provision of public sheep dipping facilities
- Provision of recreational facilities and financial assistance to providers
- Provision of refuse and storage bins in streets
- Provision of rescue etc in road traffic accidents
- Provision of residential accommodation for persons in need of care and attention, and mothers
- Provision of school meals
- Provision of school transport
- Provision of Schools Crossing Patrols
- Provision of services and amenities, recreation and refreshment facilities
- Provision of services for children in need, their families and others
- Provision of services for post 18 year old care leavers
- Provision of services to families
- Provision of services to the elderly
- Provision of smallholdings
- Provision of swimming baths and recreation facilities
- Provision of teaching services for day nurseries
- Provision of temporary protection for property of persons admitted to hospital
- Provision of transport for 6th formers
- Provision of welfare services to adults with disabilities etc
- Provision of welfare services to disabled etc persons
- Provision of youth service
- Provision of/assistance to schools
- Provisions as to members voting rights and declarations of interest etc
- Provisions of services to children leaving care
- Public Analyst
- Recovery of expenses due to extraordinary traffic
- Recycling of waste
- Regard to needs of disabled and blind in executing highways works
- Register of businesses who employ persons in shop or office premises
- Register of disabled children
- Regulation of markets, fairs and trading at such events
- Removal of snow, soil etc causing obstruction
- Removal of unauthorised campers from land
- Removal to suitable premises of persons in need of care and attention
- Requesting voluntary contributions
- Research and collection of information re the area
- Response to other eventualities
- Responsibility for fixing dates of terms and holidays and times of sessions
- Right to Buy - Duty to dispose of a dwelling to a qualifying tenant
- Rights of way improvement plan
- Road user charging schemes
- Safeguarding and promoting welfare of looked-after children, including educational achievement
- Scheme of delegation of powers to officers
- School Organisation Committee
- Securing efficient primary and secondary education
- Securing Health and Safety of employees and others
- Securing provision for education of 16-18 year olds
- Securing provision for education of persons over 19
- Securing sufficiency of nursery education
- Securing sufficient schools available
- Securing welfare of children accommodated by voluntary organisations
- Securing welfare of privately fostered children
- Setting of educational performance targets
- Signposting of footpaths and bridleways
- Social Services - duty to appoint a social services committee
- Social Services - duty to maintain a register of mental nursing homes
- Social Services - duty to maintain a register of nursing homes
- Stopping up or diversion of highways
- Stopping up unnecessary highways
- Strategy for promoting well-being (community strategy)
- Sufficient inspectors, and provision of standards for Weights and Measures
- Supply of services directly to carers
- Support to Asylum Seekers
- to provide residential accommodation for persons who by reason of age, infirmity or any other circumstance are in need of care and attention not otherwise available to them
- Urgent repairs to private streets
- Use of civil defence resources for emergencies and disasters
- Visiting etc of patients
- Voucher scheme for short-term breaks
- Wardening and signing of Access Land
- Waste Disposal
- Welfare investigation in private law family proceedings
- Winter maintenance
- Youth Justice Plan
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