Impact of the Human Rights Act : a Survey of Local Authorities and Travellers, 2001-2002

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The research study aimed to examine how the introduction of human rights legislation <br>
has impacted upon the way that local authorities approach their duties and provide <br>
services, in the necessary move from a duty-based to right-based consciousness and <br>
the potential changes that might come about in the measurement of such service <br>
delivery, encompassing human as well as monetary costs. <br>
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The study's objectives were to: examine, as a case study to test this thinking, the <br>
changing nature of the relationship between local authorities, travelling people and the <br>
law; collect, from travelling people, information to enable an examination of human <br>
rights awareness that can be factored in to an analysis of the approach to 'best value' <br>
and the respect of rights; produce a report which can assist and encourage local <br>
authorities to build human rights and best value approaches in to their activities; and <br>
which can assist local authorities in developing new pro-rights and anti-exclusion <br>
strategies while serving best value principles.<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The dataset contains responses to the postal survey questionnaires sent to every local authority in the United Kingdom and questionnaires completed by individual travelling people.<br>
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