Working at the Council
There are 49 councillors on the County Council, elected every four years. They are democratically accountable to the residents of their electoral divisions and together represent the whole of Wiltshire.
There are currently 30 Conservative, 14 Liberal Democrat, 3 Labour and 2 Independent Councillors.
We employ 11,699 staff, about 1275 of them on the County Hall campus. The rest work in schools, youth centres, libraries, area offices, day centres and more across the county.
We deliver our services via three service departments: -
• Department for Children & Education
• Department for Community Services
• Environmental Services
These are backed by a central support Resources Department.
Around 65,000 children and young people use our schools and, at any one time, about 300 are in the care of the County Council with a further 2,500 are on social services’ caseloads.
Our social services support about 1,500 older people in residential and nursing homes and a further 4,700 in their own homes.
Every year, Wiltshire people borrow over three million books and tapes from our libraries, register over 8,300 births, marriages and deaths with the Registrars service, report some 4,000 complaints and enquiries to the Trading Standards Service and produce about 225,000 tonnes of household waste to be collected by district councils and disposed of by the County Council. We also maintain 4,400 kilometres of road and supervise 6,000 kilometres of rights of way.
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