Words to remember:

vested	deceive
accurate	prosecution
primacy	witness
retail shops	assess
pumps	however
complaint	annually
inaccurate	coupled
merely	currently
ignorance

Appendix I Scotland and Northern Ireland

a) Scotland

Reorganisation of local government in Scotland took effect in 1975. The structure consists of a two-tiered system of 9 regions, 53 districts and 3 most-purpose island area councils. The recruitment of graduates into the professional ranks of local authority service in Scotland is, generally speaking, a well established practice. Recruitment to administrative posts and some of the newer functional areas has been less developed and publicised than in England, though the whole range of posts and the salaries which they attract, are very similar to those south of the border. The table shows the allocation of the main functions between different types of authority.

Regional and Island Authorities	District and Island Authorities
Careers Service Community Centres* Consumer Protection Countryside* Education Fire Harbours Industrial Development* Parks* Police Public Transport Roads Sewerage Social Work Strategic Planning Valuation Water	Art Galleries and Museums Community Centres* Countryside* Development Control + Environmental Health Housing Industrial Development* Libraries+ Licensing and District Courts Local Planning + Parks* Recreation* Refuse Collection & Disposal Tourism

* exercised by either the regional or the district authorities

+ except in Highland, Dumfries & Galloway and Border regions where the function is regional.

b) Northern Ireland

Many of the functions of an English local authority are for historical and geographical reasons distributed between a reasonably autonomous Northern Ireland Civil Service, several public boards and 26 District Councils. The main departments in the Northern Ireland Civil Service are

Finance and Personnel

Health and Social Service

Education

Agriculture

Environment

Economic Development

These departments recruit a variety of technical and specialist staffs as the need arises. These may include graduates in agriculture, architecture, engineering, science, law, economics, planning etc. There are normally annual competitions for recruitment to the grades of Administration Trainee, Executive Officer, Clerical Officer and Computer Programmer or Trainee.

The Department of Education has overall responsibility for the development of primary, secondary, further and higher education; the arts and libraries; youth services; teacher training; teacher's salaries and superannuation; sport recreation and community services and facilities.

Five area education and library boards are responsible for the provision of education, library and youth services and for the recruitment of staff to these services.

The Department of Health and Social Services is responsible for hospital and family practitioner services, school health, child health, child care and adoption, services for the elderly and for the handicapped. Four Health and Social Services Boards administer these services at local level.

The Nl Staffs Council for the Health and Social Services administers schemes for the recruitment of General Administration Trainees, Finance Trainees and Catering and Domestic Services Management Trainees.

The Department of the Environment is responsible for the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges, provision of water and sewerage facilities, and is the sole planning authority for Northern Ireland. The Department is also responsible for the matters of transport and traffic, country parks, nature reserves and areas of outstanding natural beauty, pollution control, environmental public health, street lighting and Fire Service (through the Fire Authority).

The Northern Ireland Fire Authority provides a Fire Service for Northern Ireland but like its counterparts in Great Britain has no specifically graduate scheme of recruitment.

THE NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSING EXECUTIVE

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is responsible for the provision and management of all public authority housing in Northern Ireland. It employs graduates in each of four divisions: Development, Housing Management, Finance and Administration. Development embraces architects, engineers and design and production staff. Housing Management reports on housing need, deals with allocations, transfers and exchanges, improvement grants, rent collections and maintenance and repair. The Finance division is responsible for accounts, salaries, financial policy, loans and internal control procedures. Administration provides personnel services, statistics and research, information, land and property services, work study and organisation and methods and legal advice.

DISTRICT COUNCILS

The 26 district councils are responsible for a wide range of local services including the provision of recreational, social, community and cultural facilities; environmental health; consumer protection; the enforcement of buildings regulations; the promotion of tourist development schemes; gas supply; street cleaning; refuse collection and disposal, litter prevention and miscellaneous licensing and registration provisions.

Belfast City Council is the largest of these authorities and provides professional and administrative services on a consultancy basis to other councils requiring specialist help or facilities. It is the only one of the district councils to have a reasonably regular programme of recruitment to the grades of clerical officer and trainee computer programmer. Graduates are only occasionally recruited to other positions or by the other district councils.

All vacancies are advertised in three Northern Ireland daily papers.

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