Evaluate the Responsibilities at Different Levels of Government
Central government is in charge at a national level, it is positioned in London where the houses of parliament and the House of Lords have many different types of responsibilities.
One of their responsibilities is to protect the whole country at a national level. The good thing about this responsibility is that it will make our country a safer place to live in by creating new laws and policies which will help protect the people either from drink/driving laws or smoking ban where they keep you from harm. The bad thing about this responsibility is only a selected few hundred MPs can make the choice and even through the people in the House of Commons are voted in by us, they may not do what is in our best interest and will vote on their principles and beliefs and they could have a bias opinion. An example would be the House of parliament and when they are in session they discuss lots of different issues and reports and in front of the speaker.
Our country signs treaties with other countries so we can make deals with each other which are friendly and to help keep the peace and so we can be partners with each other this is also another responsibility. The good thing about this responsibility is that it will keep peace between our countries and there is no fighting going on and the less likely chance we will go to war where there will be death caused by bombs, gunshot wounds and a great deal of injury. In 1992, the UN sent more than 10,000 British troops over to Yugoslavia to help with the peacekeeping. Since the troops was deployed around 72 British troops was killed. The war started in 1991 and ended in 2001.
Another responsibility is the different types of laws the government create to make our country a safer place to live in and so we can all live in a peaceful, law-abiding society. This is good as if everyone follows the law the country will be safer for everyone to live in but if people do not follow the rules the country created a system which all criminals will get charged and getting them of the streets will reduce the crime and can save people’s lives. An example of a law the government created was the ban on non-smoking in building with the UK in 2007 so keep the countries health in tack. The good thing about creating this law is that smoking is bad for you and if less people are smoking indoors it can reduce the amount of people smoking as they may not want to go outside if the cold to smoke also Smoking can also cause bad chest pains or can lead to asthmas or cancer. The bad thing about creating this law is the public’s reaction and the protest and debate that it may cause.
Another law is the different types of discrimination acts that the government creates to make sure that everybody got an equal chance in life and not having you age, gender, race, colour, religion effect your chances for a job or education. The sex discrimination act was put into place 1975 to make sure that women had a fair chance at getting a job depending on what is was such as a fire-fighter. The good thing about this law was that women all over the country got an equal chance and was able to do a “man’s job” and not following this law got you in trouble the law and you could be fined or received a prison sentence. The bad thing about this law is that people will not change their minds about women working as the men would have seen the females to be at home cooking dinners, doing housework and childcare not putting out fires and the effect this may have is it will be open to law suits for not letting women into the fire service. For the fire service they put in inspectors who are aware of EO (equal opportunities) are being used and they done this to make sure that the fire service are following the polices they have set out. The effect this might have is that on an inspection a fire department are found out for not following the polices, if they do not follow the polices they will be breaking the law and will be procured and sent to prison. Also an effect it will have on the fire service would be moral.
The council is for the whole county such as Kent and they different responsibilities which include education, public transport, emergency planning, highway and the traffic, libraries, planning and development, refuse disposal, social services and trading standards with different departments for each responsibility. One of the council’s responsibilities is the public transport. The good thing about this is buses are more environmental friendly and healthy for the world and as there will be less cars on the road it will create less pollutions in the air and it will create more jobs as the bus company will need people to driving all of the buses, ticket inspectors, people at the information desk, people to train the drivers how to drive the big buses, people working in the office such as HR (human resources) and cleaners to clean the bus. The bad thing about this is it is going to cost a lot of money to run the buses, money to fix them if they get broken and you also have to buy petrol as well which is very expensive and the bus tanks are bigger than car tanks and will cost more to fill up and as you have multiply buses it will cost a lot.