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Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
DH: People with autism will benefit from better services, with the help of a new blueprint for commissioning high quality care. Care Services Minister, Phil Hope, is calling upon the NHS to help drive improvements in services for people with autism, starting with using the best practice guidance.
The guidance - 'Services for adults with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC): good practice advice for primary care trust and local authority commissioners' - was published to coincide with World Autism Day. It comes ahead of a consultation for the first national strategy for adults with autism to be launched later this month.
Press release ~
HA: Updated guidelines for highways maintenance engineers & contractors to make temporary traffic management at road works safer and more effective have now been published. Revisions to Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual have been taking place over the past 2.5 years as the Highways Agency seeks to make road works safer and less stressful for both road users and road workers.
Updates include revisions to the requirements for signage for road users experiencing emergencies (such as vehicle breakdowns) in roadworks, part-time or short-term contra-flow permissions (where, subject to a risk assessment, single lane crossover may now be permitted, enabling part time or short term contra-flows to be operated) and expansions to the scope of the guidance (such as new sections on works near tramways).
Press release ~ Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8: Roadworks and temporary situations (2009) Part 1 (VLF 9Mb) ~ Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8: Roadworks and temporary situations (2009) Part 2 (VLF 5Mb) ~ Chapter 8 (2009) - Summary of key changes ~ Traffex (21, 22 & 23 April 2009)
