name: Shropshire Council
notes: On 1st April 2009 Shropshire County Council became a unitary authority. The councils of North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire, and Bridgnorth were abolished.  All new FOI requests for information previously held by the former Borough and District Councils should be made to the new Shropshire Council 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. If you make a request to this authority, they might tell you that you need to complete a form on their website. The ICO have confirmed that whilst a public authority can request a form is filled in, you are not obliged to do this. By law, the authority has to provide a response to requests that they receive via WhatDoTheyKnow. If they ask you to fill in a form, you should challenge this. 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.