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Strategic framework for road safety
This publication sets out the government's approach to reduce deaths and injuries on Britain's roads. The focus is on increasing the range of educational options for the drivers who make genuine mistakes and can be helped to improve while improving enforcement against the most dangerous and deliberate offenders.
Draft protocol for elected commissioners
This publication sets out the police and crime commissioners' legal duty to maintain an efficient and effective police force. It also sets out how they should provide the link between the police and the public, working to translate the legitimate desires of the public into action.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/police-commissioners-protocol?view=Binary
It can be done: Case studies of successful private sector involvement in education, health, policing and prisons
This paper contributes to the debate on public service reform in the UK. It put forwards the argument that there is clear evidence that for-profit companies are delivering public services successfully in the core areas of health, education, prisons and policing, both in the UK and overseas, and puts forward a number of case studies including South Wales Police outsourcing of its custody suite provision.
http://www.reform.co.uk/portals/0/documents/itcanbedonesingle.pdf
Children's experience and attitudes towards the police, personal safety and public spaces - Supplementary volume three to crime in England and Wales 2009-10
This bulletin is the third in a series of supplementary volumes that accompany the main annual Home Office statistical bulletin ‘Crime in England and Wales 2009-10’. It gives an analysis of children’s attitude to the police, experience of and attitudes to knife carrying, crime prevention behaviours, being in public spaces and access to leisure activities.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb0811/hosb0811?view=Binary
Taking drugs seriously: a Demos and UK Drug Policy Commission report on legal highs
Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manufactured psychoactive substances like mephedrone moving faster than public policy can accommodate, this report asks whether the assumptions enshrined in the 40-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act are still valid when applied 21st century drugs market. It includes views from stakeholders from across all areas involved in drugs policy - including frontline practitioners such as medical professionals, youth workers and law enforcement.
http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Taking_Drugs_Seriously_-_web.pdf?1305207826
Civil society and public services: collaboration not competition
This report sets out to outline the public policy context; identify the key issues and challenges for public services and the public sector workforce; identify the impacts on civil society; articulate an alternative vision for civil society engagement in public services; explore how we might manage and mitigate some of the worst effects of outsourcing public services to civil society organisations and social enterprises.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-19587-f0.pdf
Equality Act 2010 - public sector equality duty what do I need to know? A quick start guide for public sector organisations
This quick start guide is intended to help public sector organisations understand the public sector Equality Duty, which came into force on 5 April 2011. It replaces previous guidance published by the Government Equalities Office on 12 January 2011.
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/pdf/110503%20GEO%20General%20EqualityDuty%20guide%20-%20FINAL.pdf
Healthy returns? Absence and workplace health survey 2011
The respondents in this survey come from all sectors, throughout the UK and employ just over one million people in total. They were asked about absence data from the period of January to December 2010. The average rate of absence in 2010 was 6.5 days per employee, only a marginal change from the record low of 6.4 days reached in 2009.
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/b5528e6c40f2d52b8025788b004d2406/$FILE/CBI-Pfizer%20Absence%20&%20Workplace%20Health%202011.pdf
