Suffolk County Council
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Suffolk County Council is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk, England. It is run by 72 elected county councillors representing 63 divisions.
Suffolk County Council is responsible for major services which are provided countywide. These include:
- Business and trading standards: enforcing fair trading laws, protecting consumers and giving advice.
- Education and learning: schools, evening classes for adults, youth clubs and higher education grants.
- Environment: conservation of the countryside and public access to it, waste disposal and archaeological services.
- Leisure and culture: library services, archives and support for arts and museums.
- Public safety: fire fighting, rescue and emergency services, safety advice.
- Registration of births, marriages and deaths.
- Social care: care for older people who are physically or mentally infirm, or have a mental health problem, those with physical or learning disabilities and children and families who need protection and support.
- Transport and streets: maintaining and improving Suffolk's roads, footpaths and public rights of way, road safety, public transport co-ordination.
Responsibility for some services is shared between the county council and borough, district and parish councils in Suffolk:
- conservation
- economic promotion
- emergency planning
- museums and the arts
- public transport
- street cleaning
- tourism
To find out more about these services, please go to the at: Suffolk County Council web site.
Elections
The council is run by a Conservative majority. The last election was held on 4 June 2009.
- Suffolk County Council election, 2009
- Suffolk County Council election, 2005
- Suffolk County Council election, 2001
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