Council of the Isles of Scilly
The UK has multiple tiers of local government and not all local authorities have responsibility for education. This public authority is one of around 200 local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales which do have responsibilities for education. This council has the functions of a district level council. Councils of this type are usually the primary planning authority and council tax billing authority and have responsibility for, among other things, refuse collection, housing, food safety inspections, dog wardens, parks and street cleaning as well as cemeteries and crematoria. This authority sometimes asks for requests be resent in order for them to be considered, often with a specific subject line. Requesters are not legally required to do this. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is a very small and atypical unitary authority, it is the council for a small group of islands 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall, with a population of around 2,400 people. 


Many requests are made to the council are about services it does not run. Please consider carefully if it is appropriate to make your request to this council. See the council's regularly used standard response to FOI requests which addresses this point.  



The council is responsible for running airports on St Mary and Tresco.