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S.T.A.R. Awards
Special Thanks And Recognition Awards
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Safeguarding adults (vulnerable adults )
A vulnerable adult is a person over the age of eighteen who may not be able to protect themselves against significant harm or exploitation and this may be due to age, illness or lifestyle.
- Safeguarding Adults Strategic Board
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Safeguarding children
Bury Safeguarding Children Board ensures that agencies are protecting children from harm and safeguarding their well-being. Bury Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB) is the forum for agreeing how services, agencies, organisations and the community safeguard children and improve their wellbeing.
- Safeguarding children procedures
- Safeguarding Unit
- Satellite and mini displays
- Scaffolding and hoardings
- School admissions
- School Attendance Team
- School catering
- School crossing patrol
- School crossing patrols
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School governors
School governors play an important part in helping local schools and the role can be very rewarding and a good way of helping the community.
- School library service
- School standards
- School transport
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Schools
Information on school contact details, term dates, Key stage assessment/exams, etc.
- Schools and colleges
- Schools' Forum
- Schools' Forum past papers
- Scrap metal dealers
- Scrap metal licences
- Seatbelt Law
- Secondary schools
- Sedgley Park Community Library
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Self Directed Support (SDS)
Self-Directed Support means giving you more control over your support. It is a way of personalising your social care.
- Semi-permanent skin colouring registration
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Sensory Unit - hearing and sight loss
The unit provides a library & information service plus a wide range of resources to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or partially sighted, and to their families and professionals working on their behalf. Support is provided for individuals to enable them to access education, information and leisure resources.
- Septic tanks
- Serious case review information
- Serious Case Reviews
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Services for older people
Here are a range of services available for older people, either to make them more comfortable and independent in their own homes, or to help them find accommodation more suited to their needs.
- Sewers
- Sex establishments
- Shared Lives
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Short term residential care
Short Term Care is when support is temporarily provided to individuals who live at home alone or with relatives or someone else who cares for them. Its main purpose is to provide a break both for the carer and the person who is being cared for. Short Term Care can also be used for a period of recovery following a health episode or for the purpose of re-assessment of the individual's abilities both day and night.
- Single Business Accounts
- Sites of Biological Importance (SBI)
- Skin piercing registration
- Skip operators licence
- Skip permit
- Smoke free Bury
- Snow clearance
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Social Care Officers
Social Care Officers carry out carers assessments. They provide practical and emotional support, advice and advocacy to carers. They can speak on the carer's behalf.
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Social Care Policies and Plans
This section provides a range of information on policies and plans, in respect of adult care and children's health and social care services
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Social media - Follow us
To stay up to date on all the latest news, updates and information you can follow Bury Council on Twitter.
- South Cross Street Library
- Special education need service
- Special educational needs
- Special schools
- Speed humps
- Speed limits
- Sports
- Sports development
- Sports facilities
- Sports ground licence
- St Mary's Park
- Standards Committee - a guide
- Starting a business
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Statistics and census information
The latest Census took place on 27 March 2011 and the full results will be published later this year.
- Stillbirths
- Stone Masons
- Street care and cleaning
- Street collections
- Street furniture
- Street lighting
- Street numbering and naming
- Street repairs
- Street trading
- Street trading licences
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StreetSafe
StreetSafe is our new strategy for improving road safety in residential streets and estates and making our neighbourhoods better places to live.
- Substance misuse
- Sunday trading notification
- Supply teaching
- Support at home service
- Supported and sheltered housing
- Supporting people
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