Stockton Council is here to provide vital services that keep the Borough ticking, for the benefit of all the local community.
Our services cover the whole area, including Billingham, Stockton, Thornaby, Yarm and the surrounding villages.
We do everything from maintaining the roads, teaching schoolchildren, organising leisure events and removing your refuse bins.
We offer social services to those who rely on them, lend thousands of books through local libraries, let over 15,000 Council houses and much more besides.
Over 8,000 people are employed by Stockton Council to provide a vast array of services for over 177,000 people who live and work in the Borough, making us the area's biggest employer.
Services are delivered to you by our paid employees, who are organised into departments.
Locally-elected Councillors make the decisions that ensure our services respond to your needs.
Our aim
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is your Council. We exist to ensure you receive services which benefit and improve your lives.
We will respond to your needs, provide opportunities and support you to build on your strengths.
We are commited to:
Putting people first - Key phrase: Respect
We will respect all people, their individual privacy and dignity, offering choice wherever possible so that they can fulfil personal aspirations to the best of their abilities.
Managing resources - Key phrase: Efficiency
Our service will be delivered efficiently and effectively in a way that is valued by people.
Working with others - Key phrase: Partnership
We will co-operate openly with partners from the wider community, our citizens and the voluntary and business sectors.
Striving for improvement - Key phrase: Challenge
We will challenge people to use their creativity to innovate and bring about continual improvement.
Performing well - Key phrase: Skills
Our services will be provided by capable and appropriately trained people.
Securing the future - Key phrase: Protection
We will balance differing needs to secure a healthy, safe and attractive environment for current and future generations.
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