[Ssf] about quangos and civic pride campaigns

[Amparo Gutierrez]

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.

thanks for the link to sheff univ papers, noone noone i suppose some of 
you are already investigating, what about publishing the public 
biographies of those big quangos members? so we could see the existing 
relationships and conflicts of interests if any: their pictures, 
biographies including birth, schools attended, family background, 
spouses ... and memorable stupidities said or done. ...

amp



noone noone wrote:

>> 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