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Work skills, traineeships and apprenticeships
We run a series of courses to broaden skills and experience and help improve your prospects and get employment.
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New-Style Jobseeker's Allowance
New-style Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is for people who are unemployed or working less than 16 hours a week and who have paid enough national insurance contribu...
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Health and safety inspections
We council regulate health and safety standards in certain types of premises to prevent people being killed, injured or made ill at work.
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Welfare assistance scheme
Find out how you can get short term support, or help to live on your own - when you need it.
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Getting rid of commercial or trade waste legally
It is illegal to dispose of commercial or trade (business) waste at a Household Waste Recycling Centre (tip). If your waste is flytipped and is traced back to t...
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High hedges
Once all avenues for resolving a hedge dispute have been exhausted, a complaint about a neighbour's evergreen hedge can be made to the council.
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Moderation
Information about how we moderate our website.
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Controlling contact with your birth family
If you're adopted, when you reach 18, you can specify whether or not you would like to be contacted by your birth relatives, and which birth relatives you would...
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Consultation on making drinking alcohol in public and aggressive begging in Durham City an offence
We wanted your views on the extension of the existing Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in Durham City which bans the drinking of alcohol in public spaces. W...
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Information gathering on youth vaping
The government is asking for feedback to identify how to reduce the number of under 18s accessing and using vape products, while still making sure that adults c...