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Essential Services

  • Community Support Centres/HAC (Humanitarian Assessment Centre) – (All services required to support these centres)
  • Building Standards – statutory safety duties eg dangerous buildings
  • Burials and cremations
  • Child and Adult Support Protection, MAPPA (Multi-Agency Protection Arrangements),Violence Against Women Services, Support for Refugees under the Resettlement Programme
  • City Engineer – Structural Emergency and Flood Prevention
  • Council Advice Services (including Scottish Welfare Fund)
  • Education provision as directed by the Executive Director/Chief Executive
  • Customer Services and Benefit Delivery (Including NDR)
  • Corporate Finance (including Procurement and Incomes)
  • Essential Communications
  • Essential HR staff to maintain services
  • Essential IT staff to maintain connectivity and services
  • Essential Property staff to maintain critical buildings
  • Emergency Planning/Civil Contingencies (including Safety and Alarm Centre and Community Safety Warden Service)
  • Housing staff in emergencies, such as Homeless
  • Housing Repairs Code 1
  • Gas safety checks/ services/ CO detector checks
  • Essential re-lets
  • Health and Social Care Partnership – including:-
    • Care settings including Residential and Nursing Care Homes and Supported
    • Housing (internal and external)
    • Clinical and Care Services to support inpatient care
    • Health care at home (community nursing/allied health professionals)
    • Essential aids and equipment
    • Meals Services Mental Health Officer Service, Learning Disability Services, General Adult
    • Psychiatry Services, Psychological Therapy Services and Psychiatry for Older People Services;
    • Out of hours services including Social Care Response Services (Community Alarms)
    • Palliative care
    • Reponses to discharge from hospital
    • Social Care/Care at Home (internal and external services)
    • Social Work Assessment of substantial and critical need
    • Substance use services
  • Payroll
  • Registrars
  • Refuse collection
  • Regulatory Environment Health/ Public Health functions including
  • Arboricultural & Forestry, Street Cleansing - Rapid Response Teams/Environmental Control/Standby for RTA's, Waste Disposal
  • Roads Maintenance Partnership dealing with emergencies, such as road closures/winter maintenance and Road Urban Traffic Control
  • Street Lighting – knock downs and exposed wiring
  • Tayside Pension Fund
  • Tay Road Bridge
  • Transportation and Fleet Maintenance (Including drivers)
  • Tayside Contracts Services delivering meal provision, cleaning services and janitorial services
  • Out of hours services including Social Care Response Services (Community Alarms), Out of Hours Social Work, Social Care Out of Hours Service