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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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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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Direct Payments and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
We always recommend that you carry out a DBS check on any member of staff before their employment starts. Employment with a child (under 18) must not start befo...
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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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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...
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Survey about ageing well in County Durham
We want people aged 50 and over in County Durham to help us to understand how we can improve their health and wellbeing.
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Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee
The Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee scrutinises delivery of the County Durham Vision ambitions of Connected Communities and Peopl...
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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...