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General Reports and Other Publications
CLG: Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has published a report from the Audit Commission and Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary which assesses the progress that has been made on Preventing Violent Extremism to date.
The report - Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise - highlights some of the work underway across the country. Researchers were looking to learn from those sites with experience of violent extremism and identified key learning points for central & local government, police, security services and community groups about how work in a number of areas could be improved.
The CLG will hold a national conference in December, with up to 1,000 attendees, which will seek to share best practice within the UK and learn from other international programmes.
Press release ~ Audit Commission ~ Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary ~ Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise ~ CLG: Preventing violent extremism ~ IDEA - Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund (PVEPF) ~ Preventing Violent Extremism - Winning hearts and minds ~ Preventing Violent Extremism: Learning and Development Exercise
LBRO: Council services providing vital consumer protection and regulatory advice to business are delivered amid enormous complexity, the first ever ‘map' of the UK's local regulatory regime reveals. Local inspectors must enforce some 200 pieces of domestic legislation as well as EU directives. They must also implement policies set by up to a dozen central government departments and 10 national regulators - and in some cases enforce rules alongside them.
The Mapping the Local Authority Regulatory Services Landscape report, published by the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO), found that responsibility for providing trading standards, environmental health, licensing and fire safety services is divided between more than 500 local bodies across England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland. Depending on the type of council in an area, inspections alone can be carried out by up to three different local authorities.
Press release ~ Mapping the Local Authority Regulatory Services Landscape report ~ Trading Standards Institute (TSI) ~ Chartered Institute of Environmental Health ~ Prioritising Areas for Local Authority Regulation (Rogers Review) ~ Primary Authority
Defra / FAWC: The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has published its Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Gamebirds. Approximately 40m gamebirds (30 to 35m pheasants and 5 to 10m partridges) are reared & released each year in Great Britain. Gamebirds have traditionally been bred & reared using simple systems of husbandry, though increasingly more intensive methods are used.
Press release ~ Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) ~ Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Gamebirds ~ Leaflet on rearing Gamebirds ~ The UK Game Bird Industry - A short study
ScotGov: Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop has responded to the HMIE report on inspection of services to protect children and young people in Aberdeen, saying: “Scottish Government officials are offering advice and support to Aberdeen as needed, and are highlighting examples of best practice from local authorities doing well in the areas that Aberdeen have been struggling with.
We will closely monitor how the action plan to meet the recommendations in this report is taken forward as well as continuing to work with Aberdeen City Council, Grampian Police and NHS Grampian to help ensure that children in Aberdeen are protected."
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NAO: A report from the National Audit Office finds The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), the body with responsibility for the police complaints system, has improved its performance against targets, in spite of a significant increase in its workload. However, the IPCC needs to do more to get feedback from complainants on how their complaints have been handled and to improve its quality control procedures.
The IPCC has a remit to identify & disseminate the wider lessons arising from its work. Since 2007, it has issued Learning the Lessons bulletins that summarise recommendations for improving police practice, which have been widely welcomed by the police and others.
