7 October 2002
This project will fund two new types of 'school' which will offer innovative education in different kinds of skills. Advanced Specialist Schools will focus on training and development of teachers and engage teachers in advanced curriculum design and implementation. Enterprise Specialist Schools will foster entrepreneurship and act as centres of expertise in the teaching of economics and business in parallel with enterprise.
Developing an electronic support system based on internet banking, integrated across the Student Loans company, local education authorities and around 700 higher education institutions. The project will make it easier for students seeking financial support to get information, apply and receive help.
Providing equipment and resources to help overcome the communication barriers faced by pupils aged 5-16 with speech, language or communication difficulties, hearing impairments and dyslexia.
This project will introduce e-registration in 500 secondary schools with a poor attendance rate to reduce their truancy rates and street crime. The scheme will contribute directly to the Government's target to reduce school truancies by a further 10% from 2002 levels. It will also save staff time through reduced administration duties.
Enabling all schools to bolster their ICT-based administrative facilities and thereby hold, analyse and transfer pupil data. The aim is to cut "red tape" and help to raise pupil standards at Key Stage 3 (14 year olds).
New funding to enable the best sixth form colleges to expand capacity, helping students to increase opportunities to go on to higher education and to develop a commitment to lifelong learning.
Increasing access to information and communication technology for children in and leaving care to help improve their life chances, in particular (but not exclusively) in relation to educational attainment. Subject to further discussions, part of the project may also support the development by the Who Cares? Trust of CareZone, an interactive, 'virtual world' for looked after children, providing them with support, information and a 'safe place' to go.
WORKSTEP was introduced on 1 April 2001 and replaces the former Supported Employment Programme. It provides support in work to disabled people facing more complex barriers to working, including long term support where needed. This new funding for WORKSTEP will that ensure all programme providers can communicate electronically with the Employment Service. It will also assist modernisation of their programme delivery in working with employers and supported employees to develop and progress employees to working without support where feasible. Ensuring all providers have ICT facilities will enable them to make better use of technology to research and develop local employer markets, support individual employees and exchange good practice to deliver continuous improvement in a quality programme.
Part of a larger £200m fund which will support significant improvements in decontamination services in the NHS. This will reduce the risk of transmission of infection via surgical instruments and reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infection more generally.
Developing and implementing an IT based national firearms forensic database system. The system will allow information to be captured and collated and links established between different incidents.
Round 2 of the CMF awarded funds to the Home Office to carry out pilot studies to test the effectiveness of tagging valuable items with electronic chips to help with detection of property crime. The project has received an excellent response from industry. This further funding will enable further pilots to be run in relation to cigarettes, CDs and jewellery.
Delivering a system for the comparison of arrestee palm prints and palm marks recovered from scenes of crime with those in a national collection of palm prints. The project will enable the filing and comparison of palm prints to be fully automated and integrated with the existing automated finger print system. All national police forces will have access to the system, which will help the police to solve crimes which cut across geographical and organisational boundaries.
Developing 2 mother & baby units for mothers or mothers-to-be under 18 and sentenced or remanded to secure facilities. This will enable them to receive specialist care during pregnancy, teaching in parenthood and to remain with their young babies where appropriate. There are currently only 36 places in the country that provide this type of service and demand significantly exceeds supply. The service will increase the opportunities for rehabilitation and reduce the risk of reoffending. It will also reduce the risk of negative impacts on babies of early maternal separation or the lack of stimulus in closed prisons.
Expanding two existing secure training centres and funding the redevelopment of the site of a third. The project will develop 104 places available to vulnerable young people, who would otherwise be sent to adult prisons. The delivery of anti-offending work and education will be paramount, but the units will also offer security to the public. Improving the services available to deal with young offenders is pivotal to achieving a reduction in re-offending and in crime generally.
Improving the security of small retailers in deprived areas where the crime rate is high. The funding will enable the security of the shops and their immediate environment in around 100 pilot areas. The project aims to reduce specific types of crime (property theft, vandalism etc), whilst improving the appearance of the pilot areas and encouraging more use of local shops.
Building on the funding allocation in round 2, this £10m challenge fund will enable further joint units to be established. The units bring together police and CPS functions on a single site, improving the relationship between the various agencies involved in the criminal justice system and increasing efficiency and reducing delays in the processing of cases. The units can also offer an improved service to victims and witnesses, because of the co-location of services. The units have an important role to play in ensuring that the Government's CJS targets for processing cases and meeting the needs of victims and witnesses are met.
The objective of the project is to ensure that case information and documentation classified as 'restricted' or 'sensitive' can be securely communicated in electronic format with defence solicitors and counsel and prosecuting counsel and agents using the Internet. This will significantly reduce delay in dealing with cases. It will also reduce the cost of paper document reproduction and delivery.
To develop a county-wide integrated criminal justice system that will deliver joined-up justice from the detection of an offence until completion of sentence. Two criminal justice centres will be built incorporating accommodation for the police, magistrates' court, Crown Prosecution Service, Probation Service and other related agencies. The public will have access to a "one stop shop" which will enable them to report incidents and receive joined-up services from the first point of contact. The project will enable the agencies to work more closely together and contribute to the Government's target of increasing the proportion of recorded crime for which an offender is brought to justice.
Creating the first national database of voters, linked to the electoral registers held and maintained by around 600 local authorities.
Purchase and deployment of vehicle-mounted mobile x-ray scanners. These will be used to detect people seeking to enter the United Kingdom illegally by concealing themselves in vehicles. The objectives of the project include better regulation of entry to the United Kingdom and increased disruption of activities of those involved in organised abuse of the immigration laws.
The project will join up the processes involved in the management and settlement of housing disputes and debt, linking local authorities, housing associations and the courts.
Developing an integrated computerized listing system for the arrangement of court diaries. This will enable on-line hearings with judges to be booked in all parts of the country from central administrative centres. This supports LCD's primary objective of providing a fair, swift and effective system of justice, and should lead to greater court utilization and lower costs.
Enabling second and subsequent remand hearings to take place by means of a television link between courthouses and prisons in Northern Ireland. This will reduce the need to transport prisoners securely, saving money and minimising the risk of escape by high-risk prisoners.
Piloting an ATM system on a section of the motorway network to reduce congestion, provide more reliable journey times and to improve safety. By using a variety of measures to control the flow of traffic entering and on the motorway and providing better and more up-to-date information for road users and traffic control centres, the project aims to achieve faster and better responses to incidents, manage traffic proactively to improve journey time reliability, and improve air quality due to reduced emissions from queuing traffic.
This project will introduce the national Public Safety Radio Communications System ("Airwave") to the British Transport Police. The system is already being provided for all police forces in England, Scotland and Wales. The digital system will improve safety on the railways and London Underground as it will enable British Transport Police to communicate directly with other police forces, permitting joint operation to combat crime and respond to emergencies.
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: VI Motion Sensors (£0.5m)
To construct sites that will allow potentially overweight vehicles to be automatically identified and recorded. This proposal utilises new technologies to improve the compliance of commercial vehicles with road traffic law.
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Home Zones (£30m)
Home Zones are residential streets in which the road space is shared between drivers of motor vehicles and other road users, with the wider needs of residents (including people who walk and cycle, and children) in mind. The aim is to change the way that streets are used and to improve the quality of life in residential streets by making them places for people, not just for traffic. The CMF funding will be used as a challenge fund to which local authorities can apply, in partnership with housing associations, private developers and other public associations, to generate a rapid growth in the number of home zones. The Challenge experience should yield a substantial increase in information about how best to actively involve local community interests in developing home zones that suit their needs and aspirations.
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Choice Based Letting Pilots (£3.5m)
To develop IT systems and software to support the pilot scheme to test choice-based approaches to social housing lettings. This will make the social housing sector more efficient by providing potential tenants with better information.
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (£30m)
This allocation is part of the much larger £900m Neighbourhood Renewal Fund which will be spent over the next three years. It will focus help on the 88 most deprived areas in England, by improving public services in those areas and improving health, education and employment outcomes, reducing crime and improving the condition of social housing. The Action Plan for Neighbourhood Renewal, published in January 2001, set out the Government's vision to narrow the gap between poor neighbourhoods and the rest, so that within 10 to 20 years, no one should be seriously disadvantaged by where they live. Improved mainstream services are a key element of this strategy.
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: CHIRP (£50m)
A programme to promote community heating and combined heat and power through grants to install new community heating schemes; refurbishing obsolete infrastructure and equipment; and promote community heating through dissemination of knowledge and best practice. The programme will help to meet the UK's targets for tackling climate change by cutting green house gas emissions. The initiative will improve the quality of life for 100,000 people on low incomes who will benefit from lower cost heating and electricity.
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Kew ePIC system (£1m)
Establishing a digital plant information system, known as ePIC, based at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. The system will provide access to Kew's collection via the Internet to a wide scientific, academic and research audience, as well as the general public.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Dissemination of High Flow Data (£1.1m)
Collating and reviewing data on UK river flows to make it more widely available. This will inform floodplain mapping, flood alleviation schemes and flood warning systems.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: NetRegs (£3.5m)
A project to provide Internet guidance to small and medium-sized industries about compliance with environmental legislation. The project aims to inform small business about their obligations and promote compliance.
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Nature for People (£10m)
The aims of this project are to improve Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and increase public access to National Nature Reserves. The project will include establishing an online resource to allow the public to identify and learn about local reserves, and efforts to reach financial solutions with individuals and businesses that hold planning permission on SSSI land.
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Genomic Resource Centre (£2.5m)
To set up a new centre of excellence for the conservation and exploitation of biodiversity in key UK horticultural crops, which would enable opportunities from geonomic research to be developed and exploited.
Forestry Commission: Forest Holidays (£10m)
Modernising two forest cabin sites in Yorkshire and Cornwall. The project will encourage sustainable tourism in rural communities and provide continued and new opportunities for employment these areas. It will enhance public enjoyment of forests and woodlands and ensure that access is provided for all. The refurbishment of the sites will also protect and enhance the income of the Forestry Commission from tourism, which enables the Commission to fund its conservation work.
Department of Trade and Industry: NACAB IT System (£20m)
Providing electronic access from every Citizen's Advice Bureau main office in England and Wales. There are over 600 main offices, with varying standards of electronic access. This project will enable members of the public to access a comprehensive range of advice and information about Government services and other issues that concern them. The use of the CABx system will enable citizens to obtain face-to-face advice at the same location. The project will contribute to the Government's aim to combat social exclusion by providing advice on issues such as debt, employment and housing.
Department of Trade and Industry: Renewable Energy (£60m)
Funding renewable technologies which are key to achieving the Government's target of 10% renewable energy generation by 2010. The CMF funding will be part of a larger £100m fund, which will be allocated in line with the recommendations of the Performance and Innovation Unit's report on renewable energy, due to be published later this year.
Department of Trade and Industry: UK Oil Portal (£2.2m)
Establishing a UK oil portal on the web to enable all business processes associated with granting consents, approvals and regulatory reporting to be undertaken electronically in a secure environment. The project will create a one-stop electronic shop for all interfaces with Government for a number of oil and gas related processes, significantly reducing the duplication of information held in different departments and improving the quality and timeliness of customer services.
Department of Trade and Industry: Business Incubators (£50m)
The business incubation process has been proven to enhance the chances of success for new businesses. A £75 million Business Incubation Fund (of which £50 million is from the CMF) will be held by the Small Business Service (SBS) and available as loans across the English regions through a bidding process managed by a partnership between the Regional Development Authorities and the SBS. Loans will be provided for the creation of new business incubators, refurbishment of workspace premises into incubators and the installation of infrastructure in incubators. The project will help to achieve the Government's target of improving the overall productivity of small firms and creating more enterprise in disadvantaged communities.
Department of Culture, Media and Sport: Tourism Destination Services (£0.9m)
Project to join up national, local and public and private sector tourism information, by establishing an electronic data-sharing network for tourism destination managers. Tourism managers will have immediate access to continuously updated information and e-business services. The facility will also act as a gateway for local businesses and suppliers to access forms, advice and information about tourism. The objective of the project is to improve the quality of information provided to visitors and potential visitors to England.
Department of Culture, Media and Sport: British Museum History Timeline (£0.9m)
A website and database providing a reference timeline of key events and major cultural developments in world history and interactive access to the British Museum's collection, referenced to those of regional museums. The project will enhance visitor satisfaction of museum visits, will serve as a valuable teaching aid for the history curriculum in schools and will provide a reference work accessible to all.
Customs & Excise: Port Surveillance (£4.6m)
Developing sensor and imaging technologies to improve the detection of illegal cargoes at UK ports.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Entry clearance modernisation (£7.2m)
This programme will create one centralised entry clearance reference system to replace over 160 isolated visa application databases held locally at UK Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates overseas. It will also have links to Home Office immigration records, thereby helping to join up the UK's immigration control at home and abroad. The system will create efficiencies within the entry clearance operation whilst contributing to the creation of a "firmer, faster, fairer" immigration policy. This will be achieved by giving entry clearance staff on-line access to the information necessary to make faster and better informed decisions, whilst introducing for applicants the option to complete and submit applications on-line.
Office of National Statistics: Better Information (£28.2m)
The aim of this project is to develop and make available new statistics at a local level to meet the needs of the National Strategy Action Plan, 'A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal', launched by the Prime Minister in January 2001. These statistics will cover a wide range of areas, such as crime, education and health, but these will be broken down to the level of small neighbourhoods for the first time. The results, as they become available over several years, will build up into a rich fund of statistical information that can be used to identify accurately the specific areas of the country suffering most from particular problems and to track changes in local circumstances over time. More information about the service can be found on the Neighbourhood Statistics web pages.
Cabinet Office: Scope 2 GSI (£13.2m)
Developing a secure government intranet for exchange of highly classified material.
Cabinet Office: UK Online IT Strategy (£45m)
Building on the funding awarded under round 2 of the CMF, developing UK Online capability and capacity for interlinking between government and consumers and businesses. It will enable more online transactions to be conducted in a secure fashion and allow access to a greater range of Government information.
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