The council:

• pays for residential care for elderly people (whose assets fall below a threshold).
• provides support elderly people who prefer to live independently (e.g. advocacy, equipment mobility).
• provides support for people with disabilities, learning difficulties and mental health issues.
• supports carers.
• provides social care for patients leaving hospital.
• provides support for those transitioning from children’s services to young adults.
• is involved with the Prevent part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy through the Prevent Board.

Some services are provided by Optalis, a local authority trading company jointly owned by Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham councils.

This directorate is responsible for a wide range or services including:

• Safeguarding and child-protection.
• Adoption.
• Fostering.
• Special Educational Needs (SEND).
• Some support for apprenticeships (Way2Work scheme)
• Administering the Household Support Fund for vulnerable households
• Educational Psychology and Wellbeing Services
• Administration of Schools and Education (admissions, school transport, educational support services).
• Prevent is included within this remit too.

Much of this is carried out by the company Achieving for Children which is jointly owned by Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Richmond.

This covers a range of services:

Neighbourhood Services:

• Sports facilities
• Waste
• Highways
• Parking enforcement
• Transport
• Parks
• Street cleaning

Planning:

• Policy, Management, Enforcement
• Building Control

Placemaking, Partnerships and
Sustainability:

• Flood planning
• Economic development
• Town centre management & regeneration
• Tourism
• Museums, heritage & the arts
• Sustainability, climate, energy and ecology
• Natural environment and nature reserves
• Infrastructure and C? Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
• Emergency planning

Housing and Public Protection:

• Homelessness
• Private sector housing standards
• Trading standards
• Licensing
• Environmental health
• Community safety
• CCTV control room

This is part of the Adult Social Care directorate and deals with, amongst other things:

• Public Health
• Interface with NHS wellbeing services
• Safeguarding

This largely covers back-office services:

• Finance, budgets, taxation, accounting, risk management, insurance, procurement etc.
• Council tax and business rates
• Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund
• HR
• IT
• Libraries
• Democratic services (running elections, supporting Council meetings etc).
• Registrars of births, deaths and marriages