Public Affairs 4 - Key Services
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What is a community school?
Term used for local education authority - controlled secondary schools. Some community schools are known as community colleges because they provide adult education and evening classes on top of their man role as a day schoo.
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What is an academy?
Semi-independent state schools are allowed to specialise and deviate from the national curriculum. Initally targeted at 'failing' comprehensive schools, academy status is now available to all state schools, including primaries. Up to 10% of pupils may be
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What is a grammar school?
A type of maintained secondary school, phased out in much of the UK, which admits only pupils who have passed an academic test known as the 11-plus. Those who fail are admitted to standard comprehensive schools.
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What are free schools?
A new generation of publically funded secondary schools that parents, teachers, and other members of the community are setting up and running for themselves.
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Define further education.
Umbrella term for post-compulsory education and training provided by colleges and sixth forms. It can encompass re-sits of A-Levels and other qualification aimed at school-age children but primarily focusses on vocational courses.
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Who is responsible for funding higher education in England?
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
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What are the HEFCE's principal functions?
- Distribute public money for teaching and research to universities and FE colleges delivering HE courses
- promote high-quality education and research in a financially-healthy sector
- Play a key role in ensuring accountability and promoting good practic
- promote high-quality education and research in a financially-healthy sector
- Play a key role in ensuring accountability and promoting good practic
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What is the Department of Education responsible for?
- Education - the overseeing of teaching and learning in primary, early years, secondary, FE, and HE
- Skills education - apprenticeships and traineeships
- Child protection
- Children's services
- Equal opportunity
- Vulnerable people
- Standards
- Compl
- Skills education - apprenticeships and traineeships
- Child protection
- Children's services
- Equal opportunity
- Vulnerable people
- Standards
- Compl
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What are school governors responsible for?
- Setting the school's vision - working together to establish the school's aims, goals, and strategic direction
- Holding the head to account - ensuring they are accountable for the schools' educational performance
- Supporting and challenging the head -
- Holding the head to account - ensuring they are accountable for the schools' educational performance
- Supporting and challenging the head -
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What establishments do Ofsted inspect?
- Nurseries and primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Special schools
- Service-children's education - for kids of Armed Forces
- Pupil referral units
- Some independent schools
- Secondary schools
- Special schools
- Service-children's education - for kids of Armed Forces
- Pupil referral units
- Some independent schools
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What can Ofsted do if schools/services are failing to meet requirements?
- Raise requirements
- Making recommendations
- Issue welfare requirement notices
- Issue compliance notices
- Suspend registrations
- Restrict accommodation
- Making recommendations
- Issue welfare requirement notices
- Issue compliance notices
- Suspend registrations
- Restrict accommodation
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What does primary healthcare include?
- Treatment of common illnesses and management of long-term illnesses
- Prevention of future illnesses through advice, immunization, and screening
- Acting as a patient's advocate
- Supporting rehabilitation
- Providing palliative care
It's delivered by
- Prevention of future illnesses through advice, immunization, and screening
- Acting as a patient's advocate
- Supporting rehabilitation
- Providing palliative care
It's delivered by
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What is secondary healthcare?
More specialised care for those with complex or severe health conditions. It's provided by professionals in hospitals or clinics.
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What does secondary healthcare include?
- Planned or elective care (operations)
- Urgent and emergency care - ambulance services, A&E
- Mental health care
- Specialist clinics
- Rehab services such as physiotherapy
- Urgent and emergency care - ambulance services, A&E
- Mental health care
- Specialist clinics
- Rehab services such as physiotherapy
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What is NHS England?
A national quango that commissions primary care and specialist health services at regional and national levels.
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What is the CQC?
A regulator that conducts regular inspections of health and social care services in England and Wales including residential homes, hospitals, and GPs.
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What is the National Institution for Health and Care Excellence?
A public body that provides guidance and advice to improve health and social care in England and Wales.
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What are integrated care boards?
Local partnerships that bring health and care organisations together to develop shared plans and joined-up services. They are formed by NHS organisations and upper-tier local councils. They were established in 2022, covering all of England.
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What do integrated care boards aim to do?
- Improve outcomes in population health
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
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What is an NHS foundation trust?
An NHS organisation which gives greater opportunities for people, patients, and staff who have a genuine interest in the trust to have more of a say about the way in which services are provided. Status is awarded to hospitals which have shown they demonst
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Who is the NHS scrutinised by?
- Audits of wards and departments by matrons
- The Quality Committee - meets five times a year to review quality and ensure improvements to care
- Health scrutiny committees proactively seek information about the performance of local health services. They
- The Quality Committee - meets five times a year to review quality and ensure improvements to care
- Health scrutiny committees proactively seek information about the performance of local health services. They
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What is the role of children's service departments?
- Promote general welfare
- Encourage children's upbringing by their families where possible
- Pay regard to children's wishes and feelings
- Work in partnership with parents in children's best interests
- Provide accommodation for children for whom no on
- Encourage children's upbringing by their families where possible
- Pay regard to children's wishes and feelings
- Work in partnership with parents in children's best interests
- Provide accommodation for children for whom no on
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Who oversees child protection?
Child protection is overseen by children's service departments, collaborating with children's trusts or partnerships, based at centralised locations where families may access professionals from various agencies, and local safeguarding children boards, whi
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Who regulates adult social care?
CQC
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What procedure do councils use to determine planning applications?
Development control
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Explain the two-step process for most new-build planning applications
- Outline permission - testing the water with proposals
- Detailed planning permission - more detailed version once outline permission is obtained
- Detailed planning permission - more detailed version once outline permission is obtained
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What are the three options councils have when deciding a planning application?
- Unconditional consent
- Conditional consent
- Refusal
- Conditional consent
- Refusal
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What are the stages of the development control process?
- Completing an application
- Entering on the register
- Advertising application
- Public consultation and exhibition stage (major only)
- Subcommittee, committee and full council decisions
- Appealing
- Calling in - when Sec of State decides controversia
- Entering on the register
- Advertising application
- Public consultation and exhibition stage (major only)
- Subcommittee, committee and full council decisions
- Appealing
- Calling in - when Sec of State decides controversia
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What is planning gain (also known as a Section 106 agreement)?
A way for local authorities to secure additional benefits from developers when permission is granted, e.g affordable housing, community infrastructure like libraries and parks, environmental safeguards (Remember the Wilpshire housing estate when there was
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Define a brownfield site
An area of land (usually in a built-up area) previously used for development which may still have extant buildings on it (like the one opposite the Taj Mahal restaurant in Milton Keynes)
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Define greenfield site
An area of land on which there has been little or no prior development
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What is the role of Natural England?
To conserve, protect and manage the natural environment for the benefit of current and future generations, and promote:
- a healthy and natural environment
- Enjoyment of the natural environment
- A secure environmental future
- a healthy and natural environment
- Enjoyment of the natural environment
- A secure environmental future
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How many AONBs are there in England and Wales?
38
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Why might a building be listed?
- Architectural interest (e.g. Morecambe Bay Hotel)
- Historical interest
- Links to nationally important people or events
- Group value as an architectural or historical unit e.g. Regency Brunswick Square in Hove
- Historical interest
- Links to nationally important people or events
- Group value as an architectural or historical unit e.g. Regency Brunswick Square in Hove
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What are the three grades of listed building?
Grade I - buildings judged exceptional
Grade II* - fractionally lower down the pecking order, e.g. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford
- Grade II - buildings just particularly important
Grade II* - fractionally lower down the pecking order, e.g. Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford
- Grade II - buildings just particularly important
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How are central and local government addressing climate change?
- Setting targets - reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 100% by 2050; reducing by 45% by 2030
- Creating carbon budgets
- Producing a climate-change risk assessment
- Adapting to climate change by building flood defences, planting drought-resistant crops
- Creating carbon budgets
- Producing a climate-change risk assessment
- Adapting to climate change by building flood defences, planting drought-resistant crops
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What is social housing?
A type of affordable housing that is rented to tenants at a lower cost than private renting (e.g. HMOs, where you live)
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What is council housing?
Houses or flats owned or built by a council and rented out at low prices to people on low incomes
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What do authorities do to help homeless people?
- Advice on how to find suitable accommodation
- Emergency housing such as a room in a hotel or hostel
- Help finding long-term housing
- Help staying in their house
- A personal housing plan
- Emergency housing such as a room in a hotel or hostel
- Help finding long-term housing
- Help staying in their house
- A personal housing plan
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Who is responsible for building and maintaining the road network?
Minor roads and those linking two or more towns are usually maintained by county councils, unitary authorities, or metropolitan boroughs.
A-Roads and Motorways are overseen by the Secretary of State for Transport. Upkeep falls on the government-owned Nat
A-Roads and Motorways are overseen by the Secretary of State for Transport. Upkeep falls on the government-owned Nat
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In relation to motorways, what is the Secretary of State responsible for?
- Overall policy - approving new A/M roads, the use of tolls, and the balance between road building and investment in passenger transport via railways and airports.
- Planning improvement and maintenance - the logistics of building, repairing, and maintai
- Planning improvement and maintenance - the logistics of building, repairing, and maintai
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What are the responsibilities of National Highways?
- Promoting economic growth by improving the road infrastructure
- Managing traffic
- Tackling congestion
- Providing information to road users
- Improving journey times, road safety, and reliability
- Minimising the impacts of the road network on the env
- Managing traffic
- Tackling congestion
- Providing information to road users
- Improving journey times, road safety, and reliability
- Minimising the impacts of the road network on the env
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Who oversees National Highways' performance?
The Office of Rail and Road
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What does TfL manage?
- London buses, Croydon TramLink, DLR
- London Underground
- TfL road network
- London River Services
- Regulating minicabs
- Dial-a-ride and taxi schemes
- Installing and maintaining traffic lights across London
- Promotes safe use of the Thames for pass
- London Underground
- TfL road network
- London River Services
- Regulating minicabs
- Dial-a-ride and taxi schemes
- Installing and maintaining traffic lights across London
- Promotes safe use of the Thames for pass
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What are contributary benefits in terms of welfare?
An example is New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) - you may be able to access it if you've paid enough national insurance contributions in the two full tax years before the year you're claiming.
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What are non-contributary benefits?
Based on individual circumstances and not linked to past contributions. They are often subject to income limits or means testings e.g. Universal Credit, Winter Fuel Payments, and Working Tax Credit
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What is means testing?
Financial assessment to determine eligibility for benefits or services based on a person's income or capital
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What is universal credit?
A payment for people under state pension age on a low income or out of work. It includes support for housing and childcare. Also financial support for people with disabilities, carers, and people too ill to work.
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What is child benefit?
A regular payment to help with the costs of raising children. Can be claimed for a child under 16 or under 20 if still in approved education or training. It's £25.60 per week for your first child and £16.95 per week for each additional child.
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What is the winter fuel payment?
If born before September 23, 1958, you can either get £200 or £300 to help pay your heating bills - largely been cut recently by Keir Starmer
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What is the role of the police and crime commissioner?
- Hold police to account
- Setting the budget
- Appointing the chief constable
- Setting the local policing priorities
- Setting the budget
- Appointing the chief constable
- Setting the local policing priorities
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What does the Independent Office for Police Conduct do?
- Investigates serious complaints and allegations of misconduct against the police
- Handles appeals
- Set the standard by which police handle complaints
- Make decisions independently of the police and government
- Share learning to improve police practi
- Handles appeals
- Set the standard by which police handle complaints
- Make decisions independently of the police and government
- Share learning to improve police practi
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What is the role of the Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services?
- Carry out inspections
- Publish reports on findings
- Monitor the progress of recommendations it makes
- Identify areas of good practice
- Publish reports on findings
- Monitor the progress of recommendations it makes
- Identify areas of good practice
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Who runs the ambulance service?
NHS Ambulance Trusts
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What is an academy?
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Semi-independent state schools are allowed to specialise and deviate from the national curriculum. Initally targeted at 'failing' comprehensive schools, academy status is now available to all state schools, including primaries. Up to 10% of pupils may be
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What is a grammar school?
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What are free schools?
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Define further education.
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