In the UK, licensing of taxi drivers is dealt with by local government authorities. In Scotland, before the recent reorganization of local government, taxi licensing was under the jurisdiction of District Councils, so a telephone survey was conducted of all 52 mainland Scottish District Councils to ascertain the procedures which were being employed in assessing medical fitness to drive a taxi, ...

cern about the population of the locality in which we live. Basically, neighbourhood councils are equivalent to parish councils in an urban setting. Members elected to the councils will not have party political labels, they will normally represent an area with a population of about 10,000 and their main task will be to keep in touch with and represent the wishes of local people?keeping the larg...

This original qualitative study investigated the experiences of police and social workers who worked closely with Looked-after Children (LAC) each other in an inter-agency capacity. Participants were based different local councils stations across various regions Scotland including rural communities Northern Isles. Semi-structured interviews conducted experienced cohort (n = 12). Those participa...

This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters’ perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of chief. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local publi...

The article examines the scope of using local fees by Polish rural municipalities in years 2015–2020. first section contains a literature review, definitions and functions fees. second one focuses on powers councils to establish their construction. Next, results research conducted verify hypotheses are presented. concludes with recommendations which may encourage collect

Rural development is a process involving local people in solving their problems. As a strategy designed to improve the social and economic well-being of rural populations, rural developmentundoubtedlysupportsnation-widedevelopmentina country like Iran with a rural-basedsociety. Theconstitutionof the Islamic Republic of Iran stipulates that ­rural development should be viewed as a key function o...

the local institutions in iran, like many countries in the world, have been established in order to realize decentralization system. the city councils are one of the most important institutions which conduct the affairs of the city with theirs executive organs. these councils make some important decisions in their legal jurisdictions which review on these decisions is very important. so the leg...

OBJECTIVE Recent school shootings and terrorist events have demonstrated the need for well-coordinated planning for school-based mass-casualty events. The objective of this study was to document the preparedness of public schools in the United States for the prevention of and the response to a mass-casualty event. METHODS A survey was mailed to 3670 school superintendents of public school dis...