Unit 6 overview Flashcards
What are the house of commons roles and responsibilities ?
Making laws, controlling finance, holding the government account, debate important issues and protecting the individuals.
What are the uniformed statutory protective services?
Emergency services, armed services and prison service, visa
and immigration services.
What is a statutory protective service?
Required by law and are government funded.
What is non statutory protective service?
Not required by law. received some government funding by many are charities and self funded.
What are uniformed statutory protective services?
They maintain law and order, provide emergency assistance and defend the country and it’s dependencies.
What are examples for uniformed protective services?
Emergency services such as police, fire and services. Armed services such as army, royal air force, royal navy, custodial care, UK immigration and the ambulance service.
What are the roles for the police?
Protect life and property, keep the kings peace, enforce law and prevent and deter crime.
What are the roles for the fire service?
Extinguish fires and protect life and property, promote fire safety and rescue people.
What are the roles for the armed forces?
Protecting the interests of the uk at home and abroad, carry out operations in support of anti-terrorist and drug smuggling operations.
What are the roles for custodial care?
They punish and help rehabilitate offenders and protect the society from those who break the law.
What are the roles of local authorities?
Education, Rubbish collection, Social services, road and traffic planning and social housing.
What are the roles for NHS?
Protect people and help people get better, help with a range of health services including mental health.
What are the roles for central government?
Responsible in ensuring that the provision of all statutory services is fit for purpose.
What are some other non- statutory services?
The salvation army, St johns ambulance and mountain and cave rescue.
What are some other non-uniformed non-statutory services.
Utility companies, Red cross, public transportation, charity organisation.
What is democracy?
Political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections, protection of the human rights of all citizens and a rule of law.
What is Republic?
The power of government is held by the people, the people give power to leaders and the representatives are responsible for helping the people in the country.
What is the Absolute Monarchy?
Form of government in which a single person usually the king or queen, holds absolute power.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written or unwritten constitution.
What is communism?
Communism is a political system based on socialist ideas of Marx and Lenin. E.g.: North Korea and China.
What is the separation of powers?
Separation of powers is the cornerstone of our democracy and constitution and ensures that no-one person or group of people can exercise absolute power without checks or challenges.
What is an executive?
Government, prime minister, the cabinet and other ministers.
What is a legislature?
Parliament, members of the house of commons and house of lords.
What is a Judiciary?
Judges.
What is the parliament?
Contains house of commons, house of lords and the monarchy, together they are called the parliament.
What are the roles of responsibilities of central government?
Income Tax and VAT, maintenance of defence capabilities to allow the government to protect its citizens.
What are the roles and responsibilities of the house of lords?
Making laws, in depth consideration of public policy and holding the government to account.
What are the roles and responsibilities of the monarchy?
Head of state, opening and closing parliament, appoints peers and heads of commonwealth.
What are the roles of the Prime minister?
Allocation of duties to ministers, to give out honours, setting agendas for government business.
What is the role of the cabinet?
Main body that controls policies and coordinates activities of government departments.
What is the civil service?
Civil servants are independent of the government and are not elected or appointed by political parties.
What is Devolution?
Delegation of power to a lower level, especially by the central government to a local or regional administration.
What are the regional assemblies?
Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and northern Ireland assembly
What is the Scottish Parliament?
Devolved legislature of Scotland, their own separate legal system and police force, their own health service and their own education system.
What is the Welsh assembly?
Representing Wales and its people, making laws for Wales, agreeing Welsh taxes and holding the Welsh government to account.
What is the northern Ireland assembly?
Representing northern Ireland and it’s people, making legislation and scrutinising the executive committee.
What are the roles and responsibilities of the local government?
Representing residents in a local area, to determine and deliver local priorities, working with a range of partners, including charities, delivering essential services and coordinate local resilience forums.
What is the local government?
County councils, parish and district councils, borough councils, unitary authorities in shire areas.
What are the police and crime commissioners?
Another tier of local government is that the role of the police and crime commissioners .
