Green Flag with Green Star
Made a great play this week to launch a new website OnePlace and comprehensive assessment of the region. CAA replaces the old star rating system for councils, are supposed to be going to make the Security Council and other local services including education and the police more accountable.
Can not be denied that the system was merely caused by useless. The vast majority of the councils were able to boast about a 3 or 4 star accommodation, despite the dissatisfaction of the population who were sick of high taxes and bills trivial quality of service.
There are two elements to achieve proper accountability: information and power. Cañas and OnePlace and unfortunately failed in both cases.
While the reports cover more areas than ever before, the only information people actually address access to services is very limited. Each council will be given a red or green for each category. There is very little useful information on the offer to what is the minimum for the color of your skin science, there are contradictions can be drawn from your green flag of the Council in the last green flag. Also developed a dual system, it simply says people are questioning whether government councils “good” or “ungood”, to use Orwell as memorable.
This is not good enough. I want to know the details, and most other people, too. The star system crashed because so many councils, they received three stars to which each of the devalued and non-public information. More importantly, there was no way to know whether the Council and one of the highest bracket 3 Stars and another at the bottom. Flags provide information even less than that.
There was no progress on the second criterion, either. Even if the CAA has given people a detailed, useful and comparable information – no – there was no change in power that people hold to work on that information.
In general, people know whether the Council is good or treats them with contempt. They know what a bin if they get enough, or whether the administration of parking, inquisitive and brutal. Expanded the powers of these assessments, they are also widely to find out whether the local police responding to a real crime or is obsessed with box ticking.
What they want is the ability to put things in proper perspective, as they are wrong. They want more control over the functions of the local council, with more pro-active council members. They want to be able to sack the police are useless, and the election of new members more in touch with reality. They want to be able to send their children to any kind of school they think appropriate, rather than whatever the State should dictate the thrown.
That the real revolution, which means real accountability and meaningful improvements to the people, yet to come. Comprehensive assessments of the region left us where we were before – ignored
