Individual electoral registrationIndividual electoral registration means you are responsible for registering yourself to vote.
There are 2 different types of support available.
Floating support
Floating support is a visiting support service coming to your own home to offer help with things like:
If you want to apply for a primary or secondary school place outside of the usual times you must make an in-year admission application.Apply for in-year admission if:
Before looking for a new home you should think about which areas you can afford to live in and how you will pay the rent.Finding somewhere you can affordHigh rents and low housing benefit rates mean it's important to find an affordable area. You can check:
Read what our children's social care staff feel about their careers in Thurrock.
Benefits and allowances for residents can be paid by a number of different organisations.
You can use an independent benefits calculator to find out:
The following schools provide special support in Thurrock.
Beacon Hill Academy
Beacon Hill Academy is a school for pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties aged 3 to 19 years-old.
The Housing Delivery Test (HDT) is a way for the government to compare the number of homes being built with the number of homes needed in each local council area.A HDT report is produced by the government each year based on homes built during the previous 3 years.
The profiles on this page have now been updated for 2026. You can view them on this page
By law, we provide transport free of charge to eligible children between the ages of 5 and 16 years-old. We do not provide transport for students of ages above 16 years-old, unless they have special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) and have been assessed as eligible.