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Service Priority, Accessibility and Quality in Rural Scotland

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Retail facilities

  • Grocery shops
  • Other shops
  • Mobile shops
  • CafĂ©/Restaurants/take aways
  • Bars/pubs

Financial services

  • Post offices
  • ATMs/cash machines
  • Banks and building societies
  • Finance, council tax and housing benefits

Childcare

  • Private nurseries
  • Childminders
  • After school child care

Preschool groups

  • Mother and toddlers
  • Other 'baby' groups ( e.g. music tots, etc)
  • Playgroups

School Education

  • Nursery class
  • Primary school
  • Middle school
  • Secondary school

Lifelong learning

  • Higher and further education colleges
  • Adult education
  • Training and employment initiatives
  • Careers service
  • Libraries (branch library and mobile library)

Health and community care services

  • Local doctor ( GP)
  • Other practice based services ( e.g. health visitors, community paediatrician, community psychiatric nurses, district nurse)
  • Local and general hospital and hospital based services
  • Ambulance service
  • Specialist health services ( e.g. physiotherapy, occupational therapy, chiropody, counselling, mental health/psychiatric services, children's services, maternity services)
  • Dentists
  • School nurse
  • Residential care homes
  • Community pharmacies
  • Other support services ( e.g. drug abuse, alcohol addiction, domestic violence, victim support services, disabilities, elderly care)
  • Social work as a whole e.g. child/adolescent/youth support services
  • Family mediation
  • Fostering
  • Adoption
  • Homelessness

Transport

  • Public transport (bus, train, ferry, taxi, air)
  • Post bus service
  • Transport to health services
  • Repairs to roads, footpaths and cycle paths
  • Traffic management and road safety measures ( e.g. roundabouts, traffic signals, traffic calming, speed limits, speed cameras)
  • Road maintenance ( e.g. road surface and resurfacing of roads; filling in potholes; kerbs; adjacent scrub/trees; drainage and flood prevention measures; road signs; traffic control at road works; quality of road repairs; provision, condition and repairs of footpaths/cycle paths; ironwork [manholes, toby covers]; white lining [edges and centre]; winter maintenance [gritting and snow clearing]; maintenance of roadside verges, hedges, trees and weed killing; parking facilities)

Housing

  • Housing (council or housing associations)
  • Sheltered housing
  • Private Landlord

Sport and leisure facilities

  • Mother and toddlers and other 'baby' groups
  • Outdoor/indoor play areas
  • Activities for under 10s
  • Activities for teenagers
  • Children and youth groups/projects/clubs/organisations ( e.g. Brownies; Guides; Cub scouts; Scouts for children)
  • Drop-in centres
  • Swimming pools
  • Sport and leisure clubs and facilities (council and private) ( e.g. council and private leisure clubs/facilities; playing fields; squash and tennis courts)
  • Extracurricular sport and educational classes e.g. run from the school
  • Community groups, clubs and organisations ( e.g. squash club, Golf club, Young farmers, SWRI, Rotary, Round table, British legion, Women's guild)
  • Cinema

Community facilities

  • Church
  • Village hall
  • Community centre
  • Masonic hall
  • Other

Enterprise

  • Support advice/services to local businesses ( e.g. Enterprise Companies)

Policing and community safety

  • Police stations
  • Community policing
  • Victim support
  • Crime prevention

Fire service

  • Fire brigade

Information/advice services

  • Council offices, telephone helplines and websites
  • Other organisations' websites
  • Councillors
  • Community Councils
  • Local Area Committees
  • Tenants Associations/Public Forums/User Groups
  • Voluntary Organisations

Information/advice services

  • Careers Scotland
  • Job centres
  • Citizens' Advice Bureau
  • Local community centre
  • Local college
  • Local tourist information centre
  • Local sports centre
  • Local library
  • Local school
  • Local newspapers
  • Local radio stations
  • Community newsletters
  • Information leaflets

Environmental services and waste management

  • Access to woodlands, forests, nature reserves
  • Protection of the environment
  • Recycling facilities (glass, paper, etc.)
  • Collection of recycling (collection with normal household collection; separate kerbside collection; recycling centres; supermarkets; workplace; local shops)
  • Refuse collection
  • Composting facilities
  • Street cleaning/removal of litter
  • Provision of litter bins
  • Provision of 'poop scoops' (bins for dog fouling)
  • Sewerage
  • Quality of drinking water/water services
  • Street lighting
  • Dog warden/pest control

Tourism and culture

  • Tourist facilities
  • Cultural activities/facilities including

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