The police are to be equipped with new technology to combat crime and Home Secretary Jack Straw is seeking views on proposals to introduce supporting legislation. The legal changes are necessary to ensure that the law keeps pace with technology, while preserving individual rights.
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From the autumn, social services departments will have to make public their annual performance records. Publishing this information will help local people know how well, or how badly, their social services are performing and help councils monitor their own performance more effectively. The aim is to drive up standards, and improve services across the board.
Warwick/DETR Best Value Series. Paper Number 3
By Steve Martin and Howard Davis
This report provides details of the methodology by which the Warwick based research team is evaluating the programme of thirty eight English Best Value pilots and the activities of three Welsh Best Value pilots. It takes account of discussions with the Department, the pilot authorities and a range of other stakeholders including the Evaluation Panel, the Local Government Association, the Audit Commission, trades unions, non-pilot authorities and the Local Government Management Board. It outlines a number of key methodological issues, the key stages of the research, the intended outputs from the study and the ways in which these will be disseminated.
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