Infrastructure: Infrastructure is a state and local responsibility since the individual areas directly benefit.
For example, Mr Bush was blamed for the debacle of Hurricane Katrina, although responding to natural disasters is largely a local responsibility.
With budgets squeezed, the local authorities whose responsibility it is to look after children in need are not always quick to do so, or to make sure that housing officers, family doctors and others know they are supposed to as well.
Britain in Bloom is an annual award ceremony run by the Royal Horticultural Society aimed at encouraging local communities to get involved in horticulture and take environmental responsibility for their local area.
Clean water is the responsibility of local governments, while various federal agencies inspect food.
Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
Birmingham City Council is consulting with staff at Frankley and Colmers leisure centres over plans to transfer responsibility to local schools.
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In addition to reducing victimisation, especially of the vulnerable, the coalition government wants to devolve responsibility for local misconduct to local communities.
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So the head of the Parades Commission, Peter Osborne, says the time is right for local politicians to take responsibility for parades.
He argues that this would work well with local authorities' continued responsibility for ensuring that all children in their areas have school places.
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Planning is the responsibility of local government, and, as Mr Osborne pointed out, councils already have the power to redesignate land for building.
First, their management was to be the responsibility of local delegations or regional offices, the very bodies that usually administer the aid in the first place.
Willie Clarke from Sinn Fein said the bill transferred a huge responsibility on local councils and the increase in fixed penalties would help offset the increased costs.
The communities and local government minister with responsibility for fire services, Bob Neill, said that some authorities had adapted better to their changing financial circumstances than others.
Many of the central elements of the Good Friday Agreement, such as a local assembly with shared responsibility between the two communities, have been Alliance policy for years.
At the local level, parental responsibility now includes the task of holding corporations responsible for the foods foisted on children, an important new permutation of the old notion of in loco parentis.
Environmental health and now local licensing standards officers will be responsible for enforcement - and COSLA and their professional bodies will be invited to join the implementation group to prepare local authorities for this responsibility.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
Speaking during the Commons' quarterly update on the situation in the country, William Hague said there would be a gradual transfer of responsibility to the Afghan National Army, with local troops expected to take "lead responsibility" during 2013.
Under the terms of the bill, local authorities will be given responsibility for council tax benefits.
Local GPs - taking over responsibility for NHS budgets - will have a crucial say.
The government said local authorities had a statutory responsibility to provide social care support to their residents.
Responsibility for commissioning local dental services is to be handed over to Primary Care Trusts by April 2005.
As for buildings and equipment, they were the responsibility of the local authorities.
What sort of responsibility should the local governments take to address the issue?
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If you suspect this is happening to one of your elderly loved ones, you may wish to file a report with Protective Services for Adults or some other local agency charged with the responsibility of safeguarding vulnerable seniors.
"In light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic, '" Finn wrote in The Catholic Key.
But after that struggled the NHS is back to devolving responsibility down to a local level.
We go in and look at those things that would be the responsibility of state and local government.
Removing the responsibility for education from local councils is one of a range of options the review will consider.
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