Council services - what do we have a duty to deliver?

We currently deliver a lot of services that are not a duty of a council.

Here are some of the services the budget currently funds that are partly or completely additional to the council’s duties:

Business support services
Catering and cleaning
Community learning
Customer communication and support services
Development management (planning)
Early years
Economic growth and regeneration
Environmental health
Health and safety;
ICT (Information technology)
Parking
Private sector housing support
Professional support services such as HR&OD (Human Resources and organisational development) and legal services
Property management eg building standards, council estate development
Public toilets
Roads management
School crossing patrollers
Trading standards
Transport eg airports, ferries, buses, strategic transportation
Waste

As well as some elements of services above, we have a duty to deliver:

Services