General enquiries

• Contact Adoption and Post Adoption Specialist Support Team

New Year is a particularly busy time for our adult social care services. We will help you with your enquiry as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

• ​Contact adult social care

• ​Contact your local district or borough council

• ​Adult Learning
• Attendance and behaviour support for schools
• Educational Psychology service
• Virtual School

​Our Early years and childcare section has information on what help is available paying for childcare, finding childcare, Children’s Centres and what your child should be learning.

Our childcare providers section gives information on funding, training courses, and the curriculum and teaching.

• Contact the Fostering Team

• ​Apply for or renew bus passes online
• Pay a parking fine (online, by phone or post)
• Appeal a parking fine
• Apply for or renew a Blue Badge
• Apply for a parking permit
• Roads and streets (includes roadworks and report a highway problem)
• Potholes
• Rights of way
• Apply for a dropped kerb

Schools vacancies - Teach Northamptonshire

• Teach Northamptonshire - school logins technical support

HR, payroll, IT, pensions and job vacancies on Public Sector Jobs East

0300 126 6661 (This number is charged at local rate and inclusive mobile phone minutes can be used)

• Manage your LGSS pension online through the LGSS Pension Fund website; you can also find information on pensions for teachers, firefighters and police officers.
• Contact LGSS Schools Finance.

• ​Contact Learning, Skills and Education

Our centres at Grendon and Everdon offer a range of outdoor activities for schools, groups, clubs or parties.

• Contact the Outdoor Learning Service

• Minerals, waste and county council development only - Contact Planning Services
• Residential planning - contact your local district or borough council

• ​Contact Northamptonshire Archives

• ​Contact Northamptonshire Registration Service

If someone is in immediate danger you must contact the police and / or ambulance service using 999.

• Adult safeguarding concerns
  
• Children's safeguarding concerns
  

• ​Contact school admissions
• School term dates

It is now the responsibility of the school or academy to communicate a closure. ​We no longer log closures and no school closures will be displayed on this website.

You can find your school using our schools directory.

• Contact SEND service
• Information for professionals
• Local Offer
• Support for children and young people

​Please be aware that your bins are emptied by your local borough or district council.

• Find out what you can recycle
• Household waste recycling centres
• Waste e-permit scheme - how to apply and FAQs
  

​The Northamptonshire County Council address for the service of all statutory and legal documents (unless another address, which may include an email address, for service has been specifically notified in writing by a person with conduct of the matter) is:

The Chief Executive
Northamptonshire County Council
One Angel Square
Northampton
NN1 1ED

We do not accept service of legal documents by email, unless specifically notified as indicated above.