Our critical services
Our critical services are:
Child Protection and vulnerable children’s services
- Young People’s Care Homes; Woodburn Court, Dalkeith and Ladybrae, Gorebridge
- Fostering and Adoption Services
- Eskdail Court Children and Families Centre
- Hawthorn Children’s Centre
Health and Social Care Partnership
- Adult Protection
- Adult Social Work
- Health Services
- Care at Home
- Midlothian Hospital
- Highbank
- Newbyres
- Primary Care
- Justice, mental health and substance misuse
Wider council services
- Registrars
- Burials and assisted funerals
- Homelessness
- Welfare Fund
- Support for local businesses
- Health and Safety
- Essential roads maintenance
- Emergency housing repairs including gas maintenance
- Street lighting
- Waste collections
- Environmental health and statutory functions including critical elements of planning and building standards: further information is on the individual service pages
- Business continuity support for critical services, including cleaning and catering services
- Internal transport and vehicle maintenance.
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