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  Dacorum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dacorum is a local government district and borough in Hertfordshire, England.
The Borough of Dacorum was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of 7 smaller local authorities, each symbolised in the 7 oak leaves in the centre of the coat of arms.
Dacorum became a borough on 1st April, 1984.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dacorum   (256 words)

  
 Business advice and training | www.exemplas.com | Helping organisations to adapt, change and grow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dacorum has the largest population (138,100) in Hertfordshire, representing 13.1% of the county.
Dacorum is set to outperform the county and region, with an average growth rate of 3.5% per year between 2001 and 2004.
The occupational structure of Dacorum is broadly similar to that of Hertfordshire.
www.exemplas.com /about/4911_5021.asp   (442 words)

  
 Dacorum (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dacorum is a Latin word meaning "of the Dacians", the inhabitants of Dacia, as in "Cohors Primae Dacorum", the cohorts recruited from Roman province of Dacia.
Dacorum is a (medieval) Latin word meaning "of the Dacians", a medieval Latin term for the inhabitants of Denmark, now know in English as Danes.
That borough name derives from the medieval Latin Dacorum designating the Danes: see Dudo of St. Quentin's Gesta Normannorum or the story of Rollo of Normandy.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dacorum_%28disambiguation%29   (153 words)

  
 Dacorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Borough of Dacorum was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of 7 smaller localauthorities, each symbolised in the 7 oak leaves in the centre of the coat of arms.
It takes its name from the old hundred of Dacorum whichcovered approximately the same area.
The name of the hundred, first recorded in 1196, issimply the Latin for "of the Danes ", since thehundred lay within the Danelaw, the southern boundaries of both being formed by the River Lea.
www.therfcc.org /dacorum-114298.html   (210 words)

  
 Government Offices | East of England |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dacorum is in west Hertfordshire, bordering Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
The population of Dacorum increased by 4.2 per cent to 138,000 between 1983 and 2003, compared with an 11.5 per cent rise in the East of England and a 6.5 per cent rise in England.
Schools in the Dacorum area are the responsibility of the Hertfordshire Local Education Authority.
www.goeast.gov.uk /goeast/our_region/272094/hertskf/dacorum_kf   (509 words)

  
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"Dacorum" is the Latin for "of the Dacians".
The "Hundred of Dacorum" was, from before the Norman Conquest, one of the eight administrative units of Hertfordshire.
The name "Dacorum" has persisted in certain areas of administrative usage, such as the Magistrates Courts, to the present day, but there was a lapse in its association with the local government of the region.
www.netcomuk.co.uk /~ajander/dbccons/dacitsh.htm   (196 words)

  
 Dacorum Borough Council — Main Office
Situated in west Hertfordshire, Dacorum is a borough with a mixture of strong urban and rural identities.
Dacorum Borough Council has worked closely with the town and parish councils in the Borough for a number of years.
Dacorum is served by the M1 and M25 motorways as well as the West Coast Mainline Railway that provides fast connections to London Euston and to the Midlands and north-west.
www.theplanningdirectory.co.uk /auto/main/97.html   (398 words)

  
 Dacorum in the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The borough of Dacorum is situated in the beautiful Hertfordshire county in England.
Dacorum, is known for being a sort of UK Silicon Valley, a home for computer software and hardware manufacturers and now a hub of industries surrounding the World Wide Web.
Dacorum is home to Kodak, BP, MacDonnell Douglas Information Systems, LUCAS Aerospace, Northern Telecom, Epson, Bull, Tandem, FI Group, Uniplex, Atlas Copco, and to distribution centres for major corporations such as Marks and Spencer and MacDonalds.
www.dacorumbahai.freeserve.co.uk /home/dacorum.htm   (169 words)

  
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At a meeting of Dacorum's Housing committee on 7th March, councillors received an update on the Government's plans for Dacorum's council rents.
The Conservative Administration believes this plan is wholly unfair on Dacorum's council tenants, and at the meeting proposed and passed an opposing motion.
As Dacorum's rents are relatively low, and Dacorum's property values are relatively high, this will drive rents (and the Government's negative subsidy) even higher.
www.netcomuk.co.uk /~ajander/dbccons/news/nhsub3.htm   (262 words)

  
 Dacorum Fencing Club, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
Dacorum held a coaches meeting on the 20th September.
Dacorum Fencing won 5-4, making us joint first in the league with St. Albans.
On the 19th February 2005 Dacorum Fencing went to the University of Hertfordshire to compete in the Hertfordshire Novice Individual Championships.
www.dacorumfencing.co.uk /home.htm   (1177 words)

  
 Crime & Policing in Hemel Hempstead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Recent Home Office statistics show Dacorum as the 12th highest increase in reported violence offences in the country.
In Dacorum violence offences increase from 801 in 2002/03 to 1,440 in 2003/04 an 80% increase.
However, as this change affects all areas it does not explain why Dacorum has the 12th highest percentage increase in the country.
www.hemelconservatives.com /campaigns/policecrime.html   (328 words)

  
 Hertfordshire.com » Dacorum Pavilion in Hemel Hempstead to close on 30th June   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dacorum Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead's 1500 capacity venue is to close on 30th June 2002.
A recent feasibility study and building survey found that the venue, built nearly 40 years ago, is becoming increasingly unsuitable to meet the leisure needs of the local community.
Dacorum Borough Council has therefore made the decision to close Dacorum Pavilion on 30th June and replace it with another type of facility.
www.hertfordshire.co.uk /pages/news/show-news.asp?id=110   (105 words)

  
 About The Dacorum Talking Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is distributed in Dacorum which covers 81 square miles of West Hertfordshire, where it borders with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Dacorum consists of four main towns - Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and Kings Langley together with many outlying rural villages such as Aldbury, Wigginton and Flamstead.
The Dacorum Talking Newspaper has arrived, giving an hour of taped news to those unable to read the local paper.
home.btconnect.com /DTNHemel/about.htm   (477 words)

  
 Dacorum Case Study - NCASP - NHS Health & Social Care Information Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dacorum PCT was one of the first organisations to register for the audit.
With close to 10,000 patients with diabetes and initiatives already in place to integrate primary and secondary diabetes care, the Trust was keen to participate in the audit and improve the services provided to their patients.
Pat Potts, IT Facilitator at Dacorum PCT, created a comprehensive set of computer-based patient diabetic records using the standard MIQUEST queries provided by the National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP) of the NHS Information Authority.
www.icservices.nhs.uk /ncasp/pages/audit_topics/diabetes/dacorumcasestudy.asp   (606 words)

  
 Mind in Dacorum | Young Minds
Mind in Dacorum are very keen to find out from potential young users of the site, what they would like to see.
Mind in Dacorum, working in partnership with Hertfordshire Mind Network, has recently commissioned a research study into “Exploring Young People’s Attitudes toward Mental Support Services in the borough of Dacorum and its Surrounding Areas”;.
Mind in Dacorum proposes to use the results of this study to support the development of its services for young people.
www.mindindacorum.org.uk /html/young_minds.htm   (319 words)

  
 Dacorum Borough Council (UK)
The Dacorum Care Project is a European funded project to train long-term unemployed people, lone parents and over 50s in Care.
The Dacorum Care Project runs in partnership, the management committee is made up of representatives of Dacorum Borough Council, Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service, Dacorum District Social Services, West Herts Community NHS Trust, The University of Hertfordshire and Age Concern Dacorum.
The trainees of the Dacorum Care Project face social exclusion through loneliness, poverty and lack of education as well as many other factors.
users.swing.be /despiweb/partners/dac_id.htm   (660 words)

  
 Dacorum Community Safety   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The purpose of this audit is to inform the partnership and local communities about crime and disorder in the district and to assist in the process of compling the new three-year Community Safety Strategy for 2005 to 2008.
Judge for yourself Dacorum is the third safest place to live in the UK in terms of your risk of ever experiencing violence.
We know these things are important because we’re asked the people who live in Dacorum – and now we’re planing to act on what you’ve told us through this Community Plan.
www.saferdacorum.info   (625 words)

  
 Dacorum Borough Council Selects Talisma Multi-Channel CRM for Superior Customer Service and E-Government Drive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dacorum Borough Council provides a wide range of services for over 137,000 residents in the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring in the UK, and surrounding villages.
Two key factors in the selection of Talisma by Dacorum Borough Council were Talisma's open architecture and ease of integration: "It was important that the system we chose would continue to expand with the needs of the council and could be managed effectively in-house," commented Judith Richardson, eGovernment Manager at Dacorum Borough Council.
The borough is a mixture of strong urban and rural identities, including the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring as well as a number of villages from Long Marston in the west to Flaunden in the south-east.
www.crmdirectory.com /content/anmviewer.asp?a=1693&z=2   (754 words)

  
 Mind in Dacorum | Site Map
Mind in Dacorum is currently developing a chat room and message board facility.
Mind in Dacorum offers a broad range of training for volunteers including listening skills, understanding mental distress and a certificate in counselling.
Mind in Dacorum recognises the need to develop mental health services focused on young people.
www.mindindacorum.org.uk /html/site_map.htm   (362 words)

  
 Dacorum Compact Volunteering Code of Good Practice
The Volunteering Code of Good Practice is to be viewed in conjunction with the Dacorum Compact, which was signed by around 50 voluntary/community groups and the main local statutory agencies, including Dacorum Borough Council, Dacorum Primary Care Trust, Hertfordshire County Council Adult Care Services and Hertfordshire Constabulary.
Recognition: The value of what volunteers contribute to the organisation, to the community, to the social economy and to wider social objectives, is fundamental to the relationship between volunteers, organisations and statutory policy and practice.
Within the Borough it is recognised that the Dacorum Volunteer Bureau operates as the local volunteering development agency.
www.volunteerdacorum.org /volunteering_code.htm   (1827 words)

  
 Dacorum Community Safety - Improving Safety   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Hertfordshire out of the ten district council areas, during 2003 to 2004 Dacorum recorded the second lowest rise in crime.
Dacorum is therefore the second safest council area in the second safest county in England and Wales.
When compared against similar local authority areas, Dacorum has relatively low crime rates and remains a safe place to live, work and travel through.Home Office statistics website http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/Page1.asp
www.saferdacorum.info /improving-safety/crime-statistics.htm   (269 words)

  
 Subterranea Britannica: sites:Dacorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the 19th December, 4 members of Subterranea Britannica, Nick Catford, Keith Ward, Robin Cherry & Neil Harley visited the Dacorum Borough Council 'Emergency Centre' at Hemel Hempstead.
The bunker is in the basement of the Civic Centre and was built in 1966.
The council have agreed to donate the furniture and equipment to a cold war museum and it will probably go to Kelvedon Hatch.
www.subbrit.org.uk /rsg/sites/d/dacorum   (411 words)

  
 carp berkhamsted canal and riverside partnership town meeting update report 2003
This was funded by the EU via Dacorum.
British Waterways and Dacorum cannot be expected to put in anything like as much in the future as their commitment to the canal side Paper Trail in Dacorum, an immensely worthwhile project that is taking considerable funds.
To this end we decided on a schools competition, the results of which will be exhibited widely linked with opportunities for continued investment in the canal project by the community, particularly involving young people’s activities.
www.angelfire.com /journal/ggbtps/carp_town_meeting2003.htm   (1174 words)

  
 Dacorum PCT : Freedom of Information : Part 1 : Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The purpose of the Act is to promote greater openness by public authorities (of which Dacorum Primary Care Trust is one).
To help with this, we have appointed someone who is called a Caldicott Guardian, and who has responsibility to ensure the protection of patient confidentiality throughout the Trust in accordance with your legal rights.
Information falling into the Classes will be retained in line with the Dacorum Primary Care Trust's retention and disposal schedules, which comply with circular HSC1999/53 and Public Record Office Guidance.
www.dacorum-pct.nhs.uk /foi/introduction.htm   (664 words)

  
 Dacorum Mayor to support IRHH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Mayor of the Borough of Dacorum, Councillor Derek Townsend has resolved to support the Iain Rennie Hospice At Home during his year in office.
It is vital that we raise enough money to ensure that this wonderful organisation is always around to offer practical nursing care to all patients and families who have to cope with the realities of terminal illness each year.
The Iain Rennie Hospice At Home is very much a local charity and, as I write, the teams of nurses based here in Dacorum are caring for over 70 patients who have chosen to remain at home during the final chapter of their lives.
www.irhh.org /home/news/latest/Mayor.htm   (258 words)

  
 DACORUM ACTUAL HOUSE PRICES DACORUM PROPERTY PRICES - STREET MAPS - DACORUM - PROVISER MORTGAGE UK
If you are looking to buy a property or if you just want to check how much equity you have in your property you can check out Property Prices in Dacorum with our easy to use graphs and tables.
Our graphs show the property prices trend in Dacorum over nearly 10 years and you can compare actual property prices and price increases with nearby areas.
Once you have checked the property prices in Dacorum you can navigate easily to other locations to find the areas with the highest or lowest property prices or largest hosue prices increase.
www.proviser.com /regional/local_authorities/dacorum   (502 words)

  
 Welcome to Mediation Dacorum's Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Room to Talk is a project of Mediation Dacorum, aimed at parents (or guardians) and young people.
If there are difficulties in your family between young people and parents (guardians) then give us a call to see if we can help.
Room to Talk is available for families in the Dacorum area and is primarily aimed at young peoiple age 16 & 17.
www.mediationdacorum.freeserve.co.uk /R2T.htm   (140 words)

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