South Ayrshire Council

Glossary

Terms used on the South Ayrshire Council website

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TermSummary
Ayrshire and Arran Acute Healthcare.
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board.
Ayrshire and Arran Primary Healthcare.
Ayrshire and Arran Tourist Board.
Ayrshire and Arran Woodland Partnership.
Authorities Buying Consortium.
Ayr College.
Access Keys are a means by which web users can jump immediately to a specific web page.
The panel seeks to improve the quality of life of disabled people.
The basis of accessibility is that every Web user should have access to the information and experiences available online.
Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Alcohol and Drug Action Team.
Ayrshire Economic Forum. Aggregate External Finance: Funding provided by the Scottish Executive.
Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan.
Access North Ayr.
Promoting welfare is about how an animal ought to be housed, treated and cared for.
Ayr North Social Inclusion Partnership.
Anti-social behaviour includes a range of problems – noisy neighbours, abandoned cars, vandalism, graffiti, litter and youth nuisance.
Any Other Council Business: Used for meeting agendas.
Anti-Social Behaviour Order.
Association of Scottish Community Councils.
Area Tourist Board: The existing ATBs will change to form a national network with Visitscotland.com.
Ayrshire Timber Transport Group.
Ayr United Football Club.
Ayrshire Valuation Joint Board.
Bandwidth measures the amount of data that can be transferred between computers over the Internet. It is typically measured in bytes (kilobytes, megabytes, etc.)
Boundary Commission for Scotland.
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The Department brings together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Better Integrated Children's Services (BICS). Children's Services Plan (CSP).
On three rural bus services, it is possible to carry bicycles. This enables greater access to rural areas.
Promoting local wildlife and habitat conservation.
The black box is for the glass only kerbside collection service.
Parking permit for disabled drivers.
The blue bin is for recycling household waste.
Biodegradable Municipal Waste: the portion of Municipal Solid Waste which can be broken down by bacteria and other microorganisms.
Better Neighbourhood Service Fund.
Best Practical Environmental Option: the most cost-effective and environmentally-friendly solution.
The brown bin is for biodegradable waste.
Below Tolerable Standard.
Best Value Project Board.
Citizen Account
Citizens Advice Bureau.
In web browsers, page data is cached on the local hard drive to speed site access while reducing bandwidth demands.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Childcare and Recreation Information Service.
Community Council.
Community Care Case: a priority for suitable rehousing if at risk of being admitted to long stay hospital or residential care, or are being released from the aforementioned and require appropriate housing.
Close Circuit Television.
Community Dental Services. Community Disabled Services.
Community Health Index (formerly the child health index): a list of people registered with a GP in Scotland or who have received treatment in the Scottish NHS.
A National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland.
Community Health Partnership.
Common Housing Register.
Children and Young People Support.
A Health and Activity Programme for people over 65.
Community Learning and Development.
South Ayrshire Community Learning Partnership.
Corporate Management Team.
Cookies are small files sent to a Web user's computer by a Website. The cookies allow the site's tracking programs to identify that computer.
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
An integral and vital part of the running of South Ayrshire Council are the elected councillors who each represent one of 30 electoral wards.
Corporate Policy and Communications.
Continuous Professional Development.
The Council's Corporate Property Gazetteer holding all the basic information on a property against its own unique reference number.
Council’s Performance Management System.
Community Planning Partnership.
Commission for Racial Equality.
Community Regeneration Fund.
Customer Relationship Management.
Community Reparation Orders: Introduced by the Scottish Executive as part of the Antisocial Behaviour Scotland Act.
Consumer Support Network.
Better Integrated Children's Services (BICS). Children's Services Plan (CSP).
Customer Services Team.
Cycling, Walking and Safer Streets.
Development of Active Regions and Sustainable Tourism.
South Ayrshire Council regard your privacy as important and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Datalink Emergency Pots are an innovative way for households to store information on individual medical conditions.
Department for Constitutional Affairs.
Dismantling Domestic Abuse.
Department for Transport.
Scottish Youth information for 12-26 year olds.
Website of the UK government.
Dynamic message signs (DMS) and variable message signs (VMS) can be used on roads and carparks to inform motorists.
Departmental Management Team.
Victims of domestic violence suffer on many levels - health, housing, education - and lose the freedom to live their lives in the way they wish, and without fear.
Data Protection Act.
Disability Rights Commission Scotland.
Demand Responsive Transport: With a DRT service the vehicle can, on demand, pick up and set down passengers where their journey begins and ends. DRT is therefore somewhere between a conventional bus service and a taxi.
Driving Standards Agency.
Visual Display Unit (VDU) and Display Screen Equipment (DSE).
Development, Safety and Regulation.
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The Department brings together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders are available to the High Court and sheriff courts as an alternative to custody.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
Dyslexia can be described as an otherwise unexplained learning