Bournemouth Borough Council

BCP Council is the local authority for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Its services include adult social care and health, benefits support and advice, bins, waste and recycling, registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, licensing, business rates, trading standards and support for people starting a business, services for children, young people and families, libraries, and the care of twelve miles of award-winning seafront across the three towns. It also publishes its budgets, strategies and consultations and how council decisions are made.