Kirklees Metropolitan Council

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Kirklees Metropolitan Council ... true reflection of what is actually happening or is it just propoganda? Find out about what the council has on offer locally. Locate your councillor, MP or Trading Standards office. See how the council is spending your tax monies: are leisure services up to scratch? How are the schools performing? What plans do they have for the future? Share your experiences with others here.

Newest Review: ... that need improvement.  Elected members should be involved at all stages of a review to ensure that the strategic and corporate priorities of an authority are reflected in the way that a service will be delivered in the future.  Question existing commitments and the way that a service is delivered. Would a different service provider or a different way of delivering the ... more

... service be an improvement? Is the service needed?  Ensure that any changes to a service, or whom the service is provided by are robust enough to be sustainable in the long term.  Equality considerations should be an important part of any r...more

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Kirklees Metropolitan Council: Best Value - good or bad? (1978 words)
by - written on 07/04/01 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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Best Value The duty that came into effect on 01/04/00 to ensure best value in the provision of services by local authorities, embraces the three main themes of the Government White Paper 'Modernising Government'  To ensure that public services are responsive to the needs of citizens.  To ensure that services are efficient and of high quality.  To ensure that policymaking is more 'joined up' and looks at issues more widely than the simple provision of that service. Why was it thought necessary to change the way that services were currently being delivered? Compulsory competitive tendering ... Read the complete review

Surprisingly good (217 words)
by - written on 24/03/01 (Useful, 22 readings)
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I used to live in Kirklees, and when I visited their website then it was a pitiful disgrace. But not now. They seem to have taken the internet seriously, and have added a whole host of information on there - from news and events to visitor information and even forms to fill in. And, let me tell you, there's nothing worse in this world than trying to extract a form - for whatever - out of Kirklees Council. The "Your Council" section seems most useful. Every area of the council is listed on there - from the people to complain to if there's too much noise coming from your neighbours ("Noise and Other Nuisances") to people to ask ... Read the complete review

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