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Information about UK Health Security Agency's tick awareness resources and how to take part in the Tick Surveillance Scheme.
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
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This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Get a benefit advance if you've applied for a benefit for the first time and cannot afford to wait for the first payment
Information on how to get firearms licensing, manage weapons for a shooting club or get a museum licence.
Guidance for licensed operators to carry out controlled shooting of badgers in the field.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
When you need to use a movement licence and designated slaughterhouses for bluetongue restricted premises.
Report internet content promoting terrorism, extremism or violence - your report will be treated anonymously.
Diagnostic and advisory services for Lyme disease.
PGD template for Shingrix® vaccine for immunocompromised individuals.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Find out if you need a licence to show films - public screenings, using film in schools, choosing a licence, penalties for breaching copyright
Standards and guidance for those forensic practitioners providing relationship testing services using autosomal DNA short tandem repeat profiling.
As a group of fisheries, apply for a licence to control cormorants causing serious damage within a defined area or catchment.
Last month marked three years of collaborative working between the Joint Response Unit and CNC officers at Dungeness.
Information for local authorities on how to provide short break care (otherwise known as respite care) to disabled children.
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