Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides

CRC'Rural Money Matters: A support guide to rural financial inclusion' has been launched by the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC).  Around 1m people live in rural areas with high levels of financial exclusion, but the financially excluded are less visible in rural areas compared to in towns & cities and it is more difficult to reach those who need help.  
 
Produced by DWP's 'Now Let's Talk Money programme, with the CRC, the guide will help local authorities and their strategic partners understand & tackle financial exclusion in rural areas. 
To ensure Rural Money Matters brings real benefit to people living in rural communities the DWP is funding a new post in the Rural Financial Inclusion Champion Team to encourage the use of Rural Money Matters and directly support the growth of suitable financial services in underserved rural communities.
Press release ~ Rural Money Matters: A support guide to rural financial inclusion ~ DWP's 'Now Let's Talk Money programme
 
MO: There’s so much information out there about climate change that it is hard to know what to believe. It can get a bit confusing but it doesn’t have to be like that. The Met Office is giving a clear guide to the facts about climate change and what can be expected in the future at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this week (7 - 12 July 2009).  They will also dispel doubts by talking about the fiction.
 
Met Office climate scientists will be on hand in the ‘Garden Energy’ interactive feature garden to discuss the facts & fiction of climate change and advise on what our changing climate will mean to gardens and our lives.  All you need to know about climate change is outlined in the essential guide to climate change that will be available at the show.
Press release ~ RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ~ Climate change – Your essential guide ~ Met Office Hadley Centre ~ Sustainable Gardens at show ~ Peter Gibbs talk about climate change and gardening on YouTube ~ Effects of climate change on our gardens ~ Separating climate change fact from fiction ~ TV weather maps of 2050
 
NICE: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced that it will convene a guidance development group to formally review the recommendations relating to the diagnosis & removal of ‘low risk’ basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) in primary care in its guidance Improving Outcomes in Cancer for people with skin tumours including melanoma (2003).
Press release
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