Statutory and Non-Statutory Public Services
A public service is a service that is funded by the government or by donations to help the government deliver its actions as effectively as possible. There are two types of public services they are statutory and non-statutory services. The difference between a statutory and a non-statutory service is that a statutory service is paid by tax payers, funded by the government and is set up by the law. They are usually uniformed and highly professional an example would be the Emergency Services and the Armed Forces. A non-statutory service is a service that doesn’t receive a lot of government funding so they are paid by members or the public as they are registered as charities, they are set up by individuals and not parliament and unlike statutory services they have smaller employers and are run by volunteers an example is the RSPCA and St John’s Ambulance. Both public services are needed because statutory services help give the public a sense of national security and to keep order and non-statutory services are needed to ensure safety to victims of incidents and to help the statutory services concentrate on what they need to do to resolve the issue.
The public services value diversity as it brings with it the chance to understand the community not only in the UK but overseas as it provides the forces with additional skills and strengths like foreign languages, cultural and religious knowledge. Public services need to understand the different religions, ethnic groups, gender and age diversity as it can have a huge effect on their day to day operations. To do this certain acts have been put into place to keep the treating of all ethnic groups equal from the public services certain acts like the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ensures that police officers don’t search the public based on their ethnic group or age but through their genuine suspicions of wrong doing, other acts have been put in place to assure that the recruiting of members of the public is not
The public services value diversity as it brings with it the chance to understand the community not only in the UK but overseas as it provides the forces with additional skills and strengths like foreign languages, cultural and religious knowledge. Public services need to understand the different religions, ethnic groups, gender and age diversity as it can have a huge effect on their day to day operations. To do this certain acts have been put into place to keep the treating of all ethnic groups equal from the public services certain acts like the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ensures that police officers don’t search the public based on their ethnic group or age but through their genuine suspicions of wrong doing, other acts have been put in place to assure that the recruiting of members of the public is not
References: http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/what-we-do/providing-humanitarian-assistance https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hms-chathams-final-homecoming http://www.exsthcross.com/Ex_Sth_Cross_2014/Useful_Stuff_files/UK%20Army%20Brochure.pdf http://www.army.mod.uk/news/26234.aspx http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/index.php/departments-units/citizen-focus http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/index.php/information/equality-scheme http://www.unicef.org/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf Public Services Level 3 Book 1 Debra Gray, Tracey Lilley and John Vause pages 84, 85, 95, 96 RESOURCE BOOK 2011 BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Public Services