Bin collections

Residents who are due to have brown bins emptied on Friday 22 November should leave these out for collection as normal. If we are unable to empty your brown bin, we will attempt to return next week. For more information, visit our Missed bins page.

Parenting support

Bringing up children can be difficult and parenting is made more difficult when a young person has challenging behaviour. This can include:

disrespect
mixing with the wrong crowd
missing school
violence and anger.

The Youth Justice Service supports parents to develop more confidence and reduce the stress that they go through whilst bringing up teenagers.

There are a variety of programmes to reflect the diverse needs of parents, which can be offered on an individual basis or within a group programme. The focus of the programme is to help parents:

understand the causes of difficult behaviour
learn about the skills that children need to move successfully from one stage of development to another
encourage positive relationships between them and their child as they develop
manage the problem behaviour
plan for future difficult situations.

Most parents seek support on a voluntary basis, however, a few parents are told to attend by the courts using a Parenting Order.