A patchy picture one might say.
"Some local authorities have extended our contracts by three months, while they work out how much money they have, but it's a very patchy picture".
It was comforting to hear that Camber Sands would be enjoying lifeguard cover during the bank holiday weekend, but your report (27 August) pointed to the patchy picture regarding lifeguard cover in general along Britain's long coastline.
So the picture emerging is of prices starting to rise, some sense that people are expecting prices to rise but we are still coming back from a relatively low base and of course a very patchy picture... because there is quite a dispersion across the country".
The joint inquiry, carried out by the chief inspectors of probation, Andrew Bridges, the police, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, and prisons, Anne Owers, says that there is a "very patchy picture" in the way the criminal justice system manages high-risk offenders after their release.
With very few exceptions, "a generally very patchy picture of HR planning" emerges in the literature [ 22].
The UK research landscape reflects the patchy picture of policy and practise in that there are no UK based trials and much of the research to date has taken the form of local before and after studies, often with integrated process evaluations.
