This has led to concerns that replacing the Primary Care Trusts with Commissioning Consortia of GPs will undermine the public accountability of the Health Service.
With the public increasingly demanding accountability from the private sector, every employee needs to know how to speak for the company when necessary.
It was landmarked and it marked a very, very aggressive and important step the federal government took in taking over, really, the levels of accountability or the degree of accountability, public accountability schools are responsible for.
The government feels little accountability to the public for its actions.
That distance needs to be explained, and the loop closed for the sake of public accountability.
But from the point of view of the plaintiffs, asset-protection trusts frustrate the public policy of accountability enshrined in common law.
Enforcement on the other hand refers to the ability of the public or the institution responsible for accountability to impose sanctions on the offending party (individual or institution).
Sir Alan Beith, the Lib Dem MP who chairs the committee, said the government's policy on quangos was rightly based around increasing the accountability of public functions to ministers.
Adding to the challenge is the need for constant transparency and accountability to the public.
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"ORDA's venues have long been an essential part of the North Country economy, which heightens the need to ensure its stability and accountability to the public, " DiNapoli said Wednesday.
It promotes self-regulation by the media, and the development of ethical codes of practice as well as awareness raising about issues of media accountability among the public.
Remember, the purpose of the shake-up is meant to be about raising the public profile of police accountability.
For more than two years federal prosecutors have tried to bring high level prosecutions against big shot money men to satisfy the public thirst for criminal accountability on Wall Street following the financial crisis.
For all the lofty words about accountability, did the drafters of our public-disclosure laws really intend them to be used by activist groups to get people fired for holding unfashionable views?
Critics on the other side say the tests are too easy, and that the Fed is concerned less with rigorous accountability and more with reassuring the public about the state of the industry.
Answerability refers to the obligation of the government, its agencies and public officials to provide information about their decisions and actions and to justify them to the public and those institutions of accountability tasked with providing oversight.
Drafting the conclusions, the Panel's Chairman Mogens Schmidt, UNESCO's Deputy Assistant Director General for Communication and Information Sector, said that the successful establishment of an truly independent PSB requires a mix of legal preconditions, economical and editorial independence, capacity building of professionals, and accountability towards the public.
In reaching its recommendations, the panel agreed attitudes towards the amount of accountability and openness expected in public life had changed dramatically since the 1960s.
Whereas the London mayor will oversee services, such as the police and public transport, which currently lack any direct accountability, the elected mayors proposed for other cities would take over councils' existing powers, such as the running of schools and social services.
They also called for greater involvement of patients and the public in the running of the NHS and measures to improve accountability.
And from the point of view of accountability, Cain at least owes the American public a loud, sincere apology.
Jim Williams of the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama says that the constitution destroys democratic accountability at the local level.
We, the public, have demanded answers and accountability.
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So where does that leave the oil companies that are fighting to disrupt the very basis of corporate transparency and public accountability?
The report also seeks to evaluate the performance of FOI against the objectives of openness, accountability, improved decision-making and public participation, as well as examining the administrative burden imposed on public authorities.
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The UK government believes that its "accountability revolution" and its digital public services will prove popular while saving the taxpayer money.
ECB's formal accountability to elected politicians or the public is more limited than that of other central banks.
Yet by and large, these leaders have escaped public accountability or even criticism over the past six years of global crisis.
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