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The research study aimed to examine how the introduction of human rights legislation
has impacted upon the way that local authorities approach their duties and provide
services, in the necessary move from a duty-based to right-based consciousness and
the potential changes that might come about in the measurement of such service
delivery, encompassing human as well as monetary costs.

The study's objectives were to: examine, as a case study to test this thinking, the
changing nature of the relationship between local authorities, travelling people and the
law; collect, from travelling people, information to enable an examination of human
rights awareness that can be factored in to an analysis of the approach to 'best value'
and the respect of rights; produce a report which can assist and encourage local
authorities to build human rights and best value approaches in to their activities; and
which can assist local authorities in developing new pro-rights and anti-exclusion
strategies while serving best value principles.

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The dataset contains responses to the postal survey questionnaires sent to every local authority in the United Kingdom and questionnaires completed by individual travelling people.