Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Talk to us about social work

If you are interested in working within any of our fantastic teams, or want to know more about our career pathways, we would love to hear from you.

Complete the Social work opportunities form and we will arrange a time to chat that is most suitable for you.

We regularly hold information sessions too, online and in person. We don't have any sessions planned at the moment but if you would like to find out more please also contact us using the Social work opportunities form.