Department for Communities and Local Government

innovation over the last two decades include community and problem-oriented policing. However, the tragic events of September 2001 have left the United States confronted with the requirement for a new style of policing which reflects a movement toward enhanced domestic security, Homeland…

Providing Pediatric Preventative services through Telemedicine/Telehealth in school settings to increase access to care. Barriers to health care are so multifaceted that it can be difficult to determine one solution, however, an opportunity in reducing such barriers can be found in Telehealth. Telehealth makes primary care services more readily available and can be delivered and received from anywhere, albeit internet connection is needed. Many times access to health care can be limited by…

responsibilities and roles across the authorities of our nation (Durant, 2007), (2013). The framework has 14 core capabilities that clearly outlines the best practices as well as the respective authorities for incident management that range from local to large scale national problems such as terror attacks or catastrophic natural disasters (2013). The responsibilities, roles, and structures in the foundation of the framework can be fully or partially executed depending…

more popular in many communities across the country. Locavores are people who like to grow or buy food that is grown locally. Food produced on small farms close to where it is consumed, or “local food” for short, accounts for only about two percent of all the food that is produced in the United States today, but demand for it is growing rapidly (Dancs). A small restaurant where I work called Della Terra, meaning “of the earth”, only buys local produce and meat from local farms. They are one…

abuse, and the need to reduce hospital readmissions are being examined for possible solutions. One of the solutions they discovered is the use of Community Paramedicine and Community Paramedics. Community Paramedicine is defined as, “An organized system of services, based on local need, which are provided by EMTs and Paramedics integrated into the local or regional health care system and overseen by emergency and primary care physicians.…

childcare (for every child), whilst the young Mother attends an educational setting, is Care to Learn (Department for Education, 2013). An independent survey, carried out in 2010, found that the scheme is a highly beneficial resource for young parents. Adding to this, 73% of teen parents said that without the support, provided by Care to Learn, they would not have been able to remain in education (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2010). Another scheme that sets out to support young…

citizen plays a role in ensuring our communities and nation can address focusing events. National preparedness allows the nation to conduct tasks to assist in responding to focusing events, and is a shares responsibility with communities across America. On March 30, 2011, Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) was released to assist individuals, families, communities, private and nonprofit sectors, faith-based organizations, local, state, tribal, and federal governments in further enhancing…

investigations following exposed the culture and gaps within the intelligence community. Current intelligence resources have increased their effectiveness since 9/11, but still face limitations. The intelligence community is comprised of many partners. Traditionally, these encompassed several Federal partners such as Central Intelligence Agency and each of the individual components of the Department of Defense. These individual departments each have their own method of gaining intelligence.…

another organisation within the department. The human resources is working together with Capita. Capita is involved in challengers to improvise the HR sector in Southampton city council, which therefore help improve the council as a whole. Nature & Purpose of organisation As mentioned above the council in Southampton collects an annual budget from the government to be able to provide for the city This type of organisation provides for the local government services are: • Tax Billing •…

of physical harm application, police brutality, involves psychological damage a well, through intimidation tactics, which goes beyond, officially sanctioned scope of police procedure. Initially, the perpetrators of police brutality, acted with the local legal system tacit approval; for instance, during the era of civil rights. In the era of today, perpetrators, of police brutality, act with their superior 's the tactic approval or the officers may be rogue. Either way, they perform their brutal…