Help with navigation in this site

Navigating smoothly through hundreds of pages related to over 450 services may sound like a very difficult task initially, but read on to make sense of how Brent Council's web pages are organised and how quickly you can get to them.

Brent Council has adopted a nationally-agreed website structure for local authorities that according to our user-feedback results in an easy-to-understand navigation.

Information is structured in three levels. The first level contains a small set of unrelated links. You find this set of links in generic pages such as this one.

When following any of these links, users are presented with a series of related level 2 sub-headings. These level 2 sub-headings may come up under different level 1 headings.

For instance, from this page, users can try and find information on Births. To do this, some would look for it from the heading 'Community and living' whereas some others would follow 'Council and democracy'. In both cases, the sub-heading Births appear. This feauture is added to deal with the fact that we all navigate in different ways and would structure the information in different manner.

The vertical left-hand navigation reflects if users are in a level one, level 2 and level 3 page. If a page is in a level 3, there will be also links to services associated with the information shown