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  Walsall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walsall is the administrative headquarters of the Walsall Metropolitan Borough.
Walsall still manufactures the Queen's handbags, and Walsall leather products have been found as far afield as Italy, which prompted some embarrassment when a husband gave one to his wife as a present after a business trip, when she realised she immediately assumed that the handbag had been bought when the husband returned.
Walsall Leather Museum is one of its key attractions, as is the Walsall Art Gallery, rebuilt in the year 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walsall   (630 words)

  
 Metropolitan Borough of Walsall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is a metropolitan borough of the county of West Midlands, England.
The former county borough of Walsall took in Aldridge-Brownhills urban district from Staffordshire and became a metropolitan district of the West Midlands.
In 1986 the Walsall borough became an effective unitary authority when the West Midlands County Council was abolished.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walsall_(borough)   (299 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Metropolitan Borough of Walsall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Metropolitan borough of Dudley is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England.
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England.
The Metropolitan borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metropolitan-Borough-of-Walsall   (1668 words)

  
 Walsall Council
Walsall Council is taking action to prevent inconsiderate motorists causing damage to grass and graves at Bloxwich Cemetery.
Walsall Council’s gritting teams have worked round the clock to successfully keep the borough’s main roads and bus routes chaos-free as Arctic weather closed in.
Walsall has the best road safety record in the West Midlands – and some of the safest streets in the country.
www.walsall.gov.uk   (148 words)

  
 Walsall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England, it is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton.
Walsall is a medium sized, industrial town in the English Midlands, and is the administrative headquarters of the Walsall Metropolitan Borough.
Queen Mary's Grammar School opened in Walsall in 1554, the 450th anniversary was commemorated by the School achieving Language College status, and the date 2004 being added to the crest, next to 1554.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Walsall.htm   (690 words)

  
 Walsall Metrolpolitan Borough Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Before Walsall’s education services were compulsorily outsourced to Serco on the instructions of the Secretary of State for Education, Education was a failing directorate in a failing council.
Following two failed Ofsted inspections of the LEA and an aborted CPA Corporate Governance inspection in 2002, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council was perceived as the worst council in the country.
Walsall LEA's Ofsted inspections in 2000 and 2002 both identified significant weaknesses in education services, rating them as '7' or 'very poor' - the lowest rating on a scale of 1 to 7.
www.serco.com /localgovernment/CaseStudies_Downloads/walsallmbc.asp   (520 words)

  
 Walsall Council and Fujitsu to transform services for local people : FUJITSU EMEA
The partnership between Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council and Fujitsu Services will also involve two United Utilities businesses acting as sub-contractors to Fujitsu: Vertex for the provision of a range of customer management, transactional and back office services and United Utilities' asset and operations management division, who will provide facilities and property management services.
The Walsall metropolitan borough area covers 40 square miles and a population of 252,000 in the West Midlands.
Walsall Council is recognised as one of the fastest improving in the UK and has a strong track record in private/public partnerships, including an award-winning street lighting replacement project with Amey and the running of its education service with SERCO, resulting in unprecedented improvements in educational standards.
www.fujitsu.com /emea/news/pr/fs_20041202-02.html   (1120 words)

  
 ABD - Walsall
Walsall is a unitary authority covering an area mostly to the north east of the M5/M6 junction.
Walsall Council are proposing to reduce the speed on the B4151 Sutton Road from 40mph to 30mph.
Walsall's favourite 'road safety' policy is to reduce many speed limits to ridiculously low levels accompanied by gharish signs displaying their pet slogan "Speed Limits Life".
www.abd.org.uk /local/walsall.htm   (454 words)

  
 The Borough of Walsall (Electoral Changes) Order 2003
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council shall make a print of the map marked "Map referred to in the Borough of Walsall (Electoral Changes) Order 2003" available for inspection at its offices by any member of the public at any reasonable time.
The Electoral Registration Officer[10] for the borough shall make such rearrangement of, or adaptation of, the register of local government electors as may be necessary for the purposes of, and in consequence of, this Order.
The areas of the new borough wards are demarcated on the map described in article 2.
www.hmso.gov.uk /si/si2003/20032511.htm   (1576 words)

  
 www.buildingsights.org.uk
The New Gallery at Walsall considered their audience to be primarily local people but also included colleagues from the art world, those interested in architecture and design at all levels, the press and media and school children in the programme of events.
Walsall's commitment to public involvement was genuinely motivated by the desire to open up the project to the public, the approach was risk-taking, particularly at the early stages but it was felt that consultation and involvement was a necessary part of the democratic process.
The four main types of consultation that took place were awareness raising exhibitions across the borough, a borough wide postal questionnaire, consultation seminars and contact with local schools.
www.buildingsights.org.uk /case_studies_1.htm   (482 words)

  
 GENUKI: Walsall
The parish of Walsall is in two townships, called the Borough and Foreign, which had a population of 26,816 in 1851, of whom 8,760 were in the Borough and 18,056 in the Foreign Township.
More than two-thirds of the latter are in the suburbs of Walsall, and the rest in the large village of Bloxwich, and the hamlets of Birch Hills, Walsall Wood, Shelford, Goscote, Caldmore, etc, extending four miles north and one and a half miles south of the town.
Bescot, the most southerly hamlet of the Foreign of Walsall, is about two miles S by W of Walsall, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the king, and it afterwards passed to the Hillary, Montford, and other families.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/STS/Walsall   (2012 words)

  
 A photographic record of Walsall past and present images and photographs old & new
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is located in the heart of central England.
The town of Walsall, eight miles north of Birmingham on the south Staffordshire border, has been a prosperous market and manufacturing town since medieval times.
The Metropolitan Borough area as a whole developed rapidly in the nineteenth century with the coming of the Industrial Revolution.
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 Socitm : case studies / 4291
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council — Social Services system replacement and business process re-engineering
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (WMBC) was rated 'poor' in its CPA in 2003, with Social Services being particularly referenced along with some other areas of the Council's work.
At the time, the Council was already part way through a procurement process to replace its legacy mainframe-based client index system, seeking to obtain a system which would better serve the needs of practitioners and managers in their day to day work.
www.socitm.gov.uk /Public/consulting/case+studies/4291.htm   (650 words)

  
 inIVA: news article - Veil exhibition censored - Walsall Council ban photographs by the AES art group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Photographs by the Moscow-based AES art group will not be shown in the inIVA touring exhibition Veil at the insistence of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, who, fearing an incitement of violence, have deemed them too controversial in the current political climate.
The photographs form part of a series titled The Witnesses of the Future: Islamic Project in which images of well-known buildings from Western capitals are digitally manipulated to add details from Muslim countries.
It seems ironic that at this very moment when politicians are calling for military action in the name of freedom of speech and democratic rights, Walsall Council should suppress the freedom of speech of artists.
www.iniva.org /news/news079   (337 words)

  
 Muslim Communities in Europe: Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Professor Gatrad is consultant pediatrician at the Manor Hospital in Walsall, West Midlands and well-known for co-authoring (with Professor Aziz Shaikh) 'Caring for Muslim Patients' (Radcliffe Medical Press).
He was also solicitor in the race discrimination case of Sam Yeboah, a housing director at the London Borough of Hackney that led to a record settlement.
He joined the Metropolitan Police (London’s ‘Met’) in 1999 and is currently Assistant Commissioner in the Met Police, with responsibility for the Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD).
www.salaam.co.uk /themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9   (10550 words)

  
 Spescom eB Selected by Walsall Council in United Kingdom to Facilitate Advanced eGovernment Applications and Features
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, situated in the English Midlands just north of Birmingham, is at the heart of the country's engineering and manufacturing area.
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, the Unitary Local Authority responsible for local government within the borough, has procured an eB document management system to support compliance with central government's eGovernment initiatives relating to the Electronic Social Care Record (ESCR).
The ESCR is one of the core requirements for managing the provision of social care, one of the statutory responsibilities which unitary local authorities are mandated to address.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/Apr/1137104.htm   (974 words)

  
 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council - Get Fired Up In Walsall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The enclosed document "Achieving Change for Adults" which can be viewed by clicking on the Adult Services Button at the top of this page, will explain these work streams more fully, and although some minor details like job titles may change, we are confident that the new structure will be in place by April 2005.
You will therefore, if appointed, be coming in at the most exciting stage of Walsall’s progression towards the corporate goal of an “excellent” rating by 2008.
For general information about Walsall select from the menu bar above, which includes a link to Walsall Council's internet site.
www.kukimedia.com /getfiredupinwalsall   (365 words)

  
 LGA Link: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (M)
LGA Link: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (M) accessibility
Select committees hold the cabinet to account and are able to ask for decisions to be reviewed.
All the Borough's 60 local councillors have a vital role to play under this system, representing your interests.
www.lga.gov.uk /LinkDetails.asp?link=498   (127 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Street Names of Walsall Metropolitan Borough: Street Names of Aldridge, Rushall, Streetly and Pheasey v. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council - Archive Internet Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council - Archive Internet Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
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 Street Names Of Walsall Metropolitan Borough: Street Names of Aldridge, Rushall, Streetly and Pheasey - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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