Communities and Local Government
A selection of images representing communities.
Direct contact 020 7944 4400- contactus@communities.gov.uk
- Local government
- Efficiency and Better Services
- Local e-government
- Connect to your council
- Directgov: connect to your council
Local government
Directgov: connect to your council
The Take-Up Campaign works by taking advantage of Directgov's search infrastructure which links all 388 Local Authorities in England to the national Directgov website.
Users going to the Campaign home page at www.direct.gov.uk/mycouncil only need to enter a post code, town or street name, to be taken in just three mouse clicks directly to the relevant service page of their council website.
Current services available include:
- Finding out about applying for schools places
- Finding out about school term dates
- Finding out about school holiday scheme - before and after school childcare
- Reporting an abandoned vehicle
- Renewing a library book
- Information about how to pay parking fines
- Finding out about domestic bins
- Finding out about disposing of garden waste
- Reporting fly tipping & dumping
- Reporting a graffiti problem
- Reporting a pothole
- Reporting a problem with a street light
- Reporting a problem with a pavement
- Information on ways to pay Council Tax
- Applying for a job at the Local Council
- Reporting a noise nuisance problem
