| Town
Hall and Civic Offices |
Westoe
Road, South Shields, NE33 2RL. Tel: 0191 4271717 Responsible: Housing, Leisure Activities, Libraries, Environmental Services, Trading Standards, Council Tax, Housing Benefits, Pensions, Payments, Payroll, Personnel, Information Technology, Legal and Financial Services, Economic Development, Planning, Building Control, Highways, Road Safety, Schools and Continuing Education, Construction Services, Environmental Services, Child Care Services, Elderly People Support Services, and Disabled People Support Services. |
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Contract
Housing Section - Central Library Building, Prince Georg
Square, South Shields, NE33 2PE. Tel: 0191 4271717 Council Tax and Housing Benefit - Gordon House, Gordon Street, South Shields, NE33 4JP. Tel: 0191 4279999 Housing Department - 1-15 Westoe Road, South Shields, NE33 2RL. Tel: 0191 4271717 Housing Jarrow - South Tyneside MBC, Town Hall, Grange Road, Jarrow, NE32 3LE. Tel: 0191 4891141 Rents Payment - 1-15 Westoe Road, South Shields, NE33 2RL. Tel: 0191 4271717 Meals on Wheels - Social Services Department, South Tyneside House, Westoe Road, South Shields, NE33 2RL. Tel: 0191 4271717 |
| Index | Government web sites Index |
| Benefits Agency |
Benefits Agency - Benefit category index |
| Child Support Agency |
Child Support Agency - Much-criticised agency set up to make absent fathers (and Mothers) pay for their children's keep. But in reality they simply ruin estranged families, and the money certainly doesn’t go to the guardian parent ! |
| Data protection registry |
Data protection registry (UK) |
| DEE | Department for Education and Employment - Information for parents, pupils and teachers. |
| DOH | Department of Health - Britain's National Health Service with information phone lines. |
| DSS | Department of Social Security - benefits, national insurance, child support and other services. |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry - including the New Deal and the Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme. |
| DTI Information Society Initiative to encourage firms to take full advantage of "the explosion of new ways to access, use and send information". | |
| DVLA etc. |
DVLA Highways Agency DETR Mobility Unit |
| Foreign Office |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| G7 | G7 Information Society |
| H & S | Health & Safety Executive - information about how the law on workplace safety affects business. |
| Tax | Inland Revenue |
| UN | United Nations |
| Stats | Office for National Statistics - economic and social statistics including retail price index, trade figures and labour market data. |
| CAB | Citizens Advice Bureau |
| Consumer Gateway |
Consumer Gateway (DTI) provides advice and information, and access to practical assistance |
| Crimestoppers | Crimestoppers - Tel: 0800 555111 |
| Neighborhood Watch |
Neighborhood Watch - Tel: 0171 7723348 |
| Fair Trading |
Office of Fair Trading |
| OFGAS | OFGAS Government watchdog - gas industry |
| OFTEL | OFTEL - regulator - UK telecoms industry |
| OFWAT | OFWAT regulator for the water industry. 8th floor, Northgate House, St Augustines Way, Darlington, DL1 1 XA - Tel: 01325 464222 |
| Trading Standards |
Trading Standards |
| Welfare Rights |
Welfare Rights Service - 287 Sunderland Road, South Shields, NE34 6RB. Tel: 0191 4271500 |
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