CONSEIL DÉPARTEMENTAL DES DEUX-SÈVRES

A body thinking of the Deux-Sèvres, the General Council carries out many tasks of a social, administrative or tourist nature. The General Council of Les Deux-Sèvres allocates its initiatives between social action, culture and heritage, sport, education, transport, and environment. The departmental project also honours some well-known devices of the general public: Terre de Sciences, Terre de Festivals, Terre de Read. The Department also provides school transport in the department with the RDS or the Network of Deux-Sèvres. A network that everyone can borrow. In addition, one third of the General Council's budget is devoted to social assistance and health, spreading between child welfare and child protection, Assistance to persons with Disabilities, Assistance to Older Persons, and the RSA mechanism. Social workers, doctors, managers, psychologists, social assistants, etc. intervene every day in the seven electoral districts of the department: Ivry, Bressuire, Parthenay, Saint-Maixent-the School, Niort Nord, Niort Sud, and. The Department has, of course, its magazine, a bimonthly title entitled «The Journal of the General Council of the Two-Sèvres».