Children's Services

• Access, assessment, care planning and reviews
• Advocacy; adoption and fostering
• Children's residential and leaving care service
• Children's social care
• Early help
• Early years and family information services
• Education strategic planning, including school improvement strategy
• Education welfare
• Improvement advisers and brokerage
• Integrated youth services
• Outdoor education
• Quality assurance
• Quality of early years provision and integrated child provision for two to three year olds, including family hubs
• School admissions
• School governor services
• School organisation and school places, including strategies for academies and free schools
• Social care and safeguarding quality and standards
• Special educational needs
• Supporting families
• Youth Council, youth voice and participation

Core Services

• Applications management and support (web mobile working)
• Business analysis
• Business improvement, including business intelligence
• Commercial and transactional services, including:
  • Accounting
  • Budgeting
  • Financial assessments
  • Professional and specialist finance
• Communications and marketing
• Customer resolution, Barnsley 2030 and policy, performance and equalities
• Customer experience and digital strategies, web content and design
• Customer services and contact centre
• Customer services development
• Elections and land charges
• Governance and business support
• Governance support to joint authorities
• Health, safety and emergency resilience
• Human resources and organisation development
• Information governance and security
• Information technology hardware and software development, configuration and maintenance, application training, and customer liaison and support
• IT procurement
• Legal services
• Records management
• Registration service
• Risk management, internal audit and corporate fraud, corporate commissioning, procurement and contracting
• Support for overview and scrutiny
• Taxation and benefits assessments (including free school meals administration) and debt recovery
• Town twinning

Growth and Sustainability

Environment and Transport

• Bereavement services
• Car parks and car parking
• Clean and green parks and allotments
• Climate change, energy sustainability and carbon management
• Drainage, reservoirs and flood management
• Fleet management
• Grounds maintenance, horticulture and arboriculture
• Highways and network management, bridges and footpath maintenance
• Safer roads and school crossing patrol strategy and operations
• Sports and active lifestyles
• Street cleansing, litter picking and fly-tipping
• Street lighting
• Trans Pennine Trail
• Transport, including home to school travel and looked after children and specialist transport
• Waste management and recycling

Regeneration and Culture

• Adult learning and apprenticeships
• Building support and porterage (excluding records management)
• Community asset transfers and assets of community value
• Culture and visitor economy
• District markets
• Housing strategy and growth
• Hybrid mail, parcel services and digital printing
• Planning enforcement
• Private sector housing, affordable housing and contract and client management for Berneslai Homes
• Property valuations, condition surveys and management of maintenance
• Regeneration
• Support for business and start-ups, business growth and inward investment
• Spatial planning and infrastructure, including:
  • Building control and development control
  • Highways development control
  • South Yorkshire mines advisory service
• Strategic asset management, including acquisition and disposals
• Tenanted non-residential property management, and management of PFI and BSF schools
• Town centre management, including town centre market, The Glass Works and strategic market development
• Transport strategy including South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA)
• Worklessness, skills and enterprise

Place Health and Adult Social Care

• Adult assessment and care management
• Assessment care planning
• Commissioning
• Disabled Facilities Grants and equipment and adaptations
• Emergency duty team
• Health and social care integration
• Independent living at home services, day opportunities and supporting living, and carers support
• Safeguarding and social workers
• Self-directed support teams
• Sensory impairment services

Public Health and Communities

• Area councils and community engagement, volunteering, and relationship with the third sector and private sector
• Community cohesion
• Community health, wellbeing and promoting healthy lifestyles
• Community safety and enforcement
• Community safety, domestic violence, victim and witness support
• Core offer to the clinical commissioning group for health care and health improvement, and public health strategy and advice
• Drugs and alcohol services, including prevention
• Graffiti removal
• Libraries
• Licensing that falls within council remit
• Public health protection, including:
  • Dog warden service
  • Environmental health
  • Regulatory services
  • Trading standards
• Support for Gypsies and Travellers
• Support for landlords
• Welfare rights and housing options