Regeneration and Community

• Looks after 456 miles of roads in Derby
• Provides 27,150 street lights
• Provides 2,492 car parking spaces in 12 car parks
• Provides free Internet access in all 11 libraries
• Supports over 9,100 arts events each year - it would take over 25 years to attend all these events at the rate of one a day
• Funds the Assembly Rooms and Guildhall Theatre, where people watch a wide range of shows and events
• Looks after almost 100 Local Wildlife Sites and seven Local Nature Reserves, with the help of local partners
• Co-ordinates a Climate Change Action Programme
• Keeps open and safe around 45km of footpaths and bridleways
• Has over 500 Tree Preservation Orders, protecting many of the city's most important trees
• Controls where developments for dealing with our waste should go and where minerals should be extracted
• Determines 2,127 planning applications a year, 80% of them within an average time of eight weeks
• Protects the city's historic and architectural heritage, looking after around 370 Listed Buildings and 15 Conservation Areas

Children and Young People's

• Provides education for around 38,000 children and young people in eight nurseries, five special schools, 78 primary schools, 13 secondary schoolsand one pupil referral unit
• Provides free nursery education for around9,000 three and four year olds each year
• Provides foster care for around 390children and young people each year
• Places around 30 children for adoptioneach year
• Has over 11,000 enrolments each year from people looking to extend their knowledge through the Adult Learning Service
• Received over 8,000 enquiries during the past year relating to childconcerns or support for young people and families
• Safeguards the future of vulnerable children and young people through the work of the SafeguardingChildren Board in partnership with other agencies

Environmental Services

• Provides 11,500 school meals a day
• Runs six leisure centres and two swimming pools
• Teaches 15,475 people to swim each year
• Maintains 1,950 acres of green open space
• Puts up 300 hanging basketsand plants 270,000 flowers each year
• Cleans city centre streets every nightwhile people are asleep
• Collected 115,108 tonnes of household waste lastyear, of which 29,251 tonnes was recycled or composted
• Inspects 1,032food premises a year
• Deals with over 4,000 requests for pest control eachyear
• Removes 450 abandoned vehicles each year
• Deals with over 800 complaintsof noise nuisance
• Monitors the city's air quality 24 hours a day, sevendays a week

Corporate and Adult Services

• Helps over 1,900 people live independently in their own homes by providing them with over 19,500 hoursof home care service each week
• Delivers meals on wheels
• Supports approximately 1,400 people in long-termresidential and nursing care
• Provides day centre places for disabled peopleand people with learning disabilities
• Organises elections so people canhave their say on how the city is run
• Registers births, deaths, marriagesand civil partnerships
• Carries out land searches for people moving house
• Maintains over 700 Councilbuildings
• Supports voluntary groups by providing them with grants to helpthem in their work

Resources

• Handles calls including pest control, roadmaintenance and refuse collection through Derby Direct
• Handles enquiriesthrough our website
• Collects £150m a year from Council Tax and BusinessRates payers
• Pays £70m a year in Housing Benefit to low-income households