About Our Publication Scheme

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, all public authorities are required to:

• Adopt and maintain a publication scheme
• Publish information in accordance with the scheme; and
• Keep a scheme under review.

Our publication scheme is a guide to the information that we automatically or routinely publish and it is a way to make a significant amount of information available, without waiting for someone to specifically request it. We are required to set out the classes of information, the way in which it will be published and whether a charge will be made for the information.

All the classes/categories of information we have used in our publication scheme have been drawn from a central government list known as the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV). To help you access the information you want easily and to support the Council's aim to be more open and transparent, we have created an electronic document library containing most of the documents we routinely publish including forms, leaflets, policies, strategies and blank forms etc. Each document has a category from the IPSV assigned to it.

HOW TO FIND THE INFORMATION YOU WANT