About Stockton Council - 01-07-2008

Stockton Council is here to provide vital services for the benefit of all the local community. Our services cover an area, including Billingham, Stockton, Thornaby, Yarm and the surrounding villages. We do everything from maintaining the roads, teaching schoolchildren, organising leisure events to removing your refuse bins. We offer social services to those who rely on them, lend thousands of books through local libraries and much more besides.

Over 8,000 people are employed by Stockton Council to provide a vast array of services for over 186,000 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 services.

Locally-elected Councillors make the decisions that ensure our services respond to your needs.

OUR AIMStockton 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 COMMITTED TO

• Putting people first
• Key phrase: Respect

• Key phrase: Efficiency
• Our service will be delivered efficiently and effectively in a way that is valued by people.

• Key phrase: Partnership
• We will co-operate openly with partners from the wider community, our citizens and the voluntary and business sectors.

• Key phrase: Challenge
• We will challenge people to use their creativity to innovate and bring about continual improvement.

• Key phrase: Skills
• Our services will be provided by capable and appropriately trained people.

• 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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