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Success projects from Round 3 of the Capital Modernisation Fund (announced
to date)
Department
for Education and Skills: improving ICT skills package
Funding a subsidy
for 55,000 teachers to purchase computers for home use, consolidating
the success of the New Opportunities Fund training programme to improve
teachers’ ICT skills.
Developing a virtual
library or internet portal for high quality educational and reference
resources. It will interpret the needs of users and provide a powerful
search facility currently unavailable on UK websites.
To
introduce New Technology Institutes (NTIs) in each region: to be established
by consortia of higher education institutions, further education colleges,
and private businesses. The aim of the NTIs is to boost the supply
of people with technician and higher level skills in ICT and other
advanced technology, and to make available better advice and support
to small businesses on the effective adoption of new technology and
innovative business practices.
Department
for Education and Skills: Specialist Schools (£33m)
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.
Department
for Education and Skills: Higher Education Support Service (£5.6m)
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.
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Department
for Education and Skills: SEN Communication Aids (£10m)
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.
Department
for Education Skills: E-Registration (£11.25m)
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.
Department
for Education and Skills: Schools Management System (£35m)
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).
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Department
for Education and Skills: 6th form rationalisation (£20m)
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.
Department
for Education and Skills & Department of Health: ICT for Children
in Care (£20m)
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.
Department
for Work and Pensions: WORKSTEP (Formerly Supported Employment Programme)
(£7.2m)
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.
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Department
of Health: Decontamination (£150m)
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.
Criminal
Justice Package
- Home Office:
Firearms Forensic Database (£1.3m)
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.
- Home Office:
Chipping of Goods (£1m)
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.
- Home Office:
Palm Print ID system (£17m)
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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.
- Home Office:
Under 18s Mother & Baby Unit (£4m)
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.
- Home Office:
Secure Units for Juvenile Offenders (£18m)
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.
- Home Office:
Security for small business (£15m)
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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.
- Crown Prosecution
Service: Joint Criminal Justice Units & Trial Units (£10m)
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.
- Crown Prosecution
Service: Public Key Infrastructure (£3.1m)
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.
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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.
Home
Office: Electoral Registration IT (£12m)
Creating
the first national database of voters, linked to the electoral registers
held and maintained by around 600 local authorities.
Home
Office: Detecting concealed people (£9m)
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.
Lord
Chancellor’s Department: Integrated Housing Service (£4.4m)
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.
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Lord
Chancellor’s Department: E-diaries for civil courts (£13.5m)
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.
Northern
Ireland Office: Prison-Court TV Links (£1.5m)
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.
Department
for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Automated Traffic
Management (£40m)
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.
Department
for Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Transport Police
Communications (£2.3m)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
for 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 at www.statistics.gov.uk/neighbourhood.
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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