[Ssf] about quangos and civic pride campaigns

[noone noone]

>how are quangos  meant to be "independent" bodies when they are directly 
>appointed (their members) by a Minister?

The theory is that because quangos are not directly accountable to the 
electorate (i.e. us) they are "independent" of political monuvering and 
point scoring, also they are often appointed by committee not nessasarily by 
a minister.  The other "benefit" to quangos is that they sometimes have 
experts in a particular field sitting on the commitee like architects, 
buissness people or academics.  Most of the time the elected people in 
parlament or the city council just don't know enough about the field that 
the quango operates in or don't have the time to be able to micro-manage 
every last transaction that the quango makes.

There is far more about the subject of quangos here: 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~perc/quangos.html

I feel that the danger is the not many people actually know who sits on the 
big quangos and how normal people like us can affect the decision making 
proccess.  Recently there was a big scandal over the "heart of the city" 
project and creative sheffield, it maybe somthing to investigate.


cuthbert


>From: amparo gutierrez <amparo2yo at telefonica.net>
>To: SSF <\>
>Subject: [Ssf] about quangos and civic pride campaigns
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:23:49 +0200
>
>Whole planning for SouthYorkshire... i found it when searching for 
>"People's Pride" campaign...
>(mainly on learning as you know, )
>
>http://www.sykeyskills.co.uk/14-19policyinsheffield
>
>
>and about "quangos" i have this question to make to the list:
>how are quangos  meant to be "independent" bodies when they are directly 
>appointed (their members) by a Minister?
>
>
>Amp
>
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