Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
ScotGov: Scotland's youngest pupils are to benefit from the new approach to learning & teaching being embedded in the nation's classrooms through materials being issued to every nursery, pre-school and primary.
Thousands of copies of the DVD - Curriculum for Excellence Supporting the Early Level - which promotes outdoor learning and aims to enable better continuity of learning by easing the transition between pre-school and primary – have been issued.
Press release ~ Curriculum for Excellence ~ Early Years Framework ~ Supporting the Early Level ~ Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) ~ Play, Talk, Read parenting website ~ Curriculum for Excellence guidance - Experiences and Outcomes
Defra: New guidance to measure & tackle greenhouse gas emissions for businesses & organisations has been published by Defra and DECC. The guidance has been published alongside advice on what it means to be carbon neutral. The guidance is aimed at all sizes of business, as well as public & third sector organisations and it will help businesses & organisations to measure & report their current emissions and set reduction targets.
Press release ~ September 2009 Guidance ~ Greenhouse Gas Protocol ~ Consultation on the term ‘carbon neutral’ its definition and recommendations for good practice ~ Green Claims Code (a revised code will be out for consultation by December 2009)
FSA: The Food Standards Agency has updated its list of product ranges that do not contain the 6 food colours associated with possible hyperactivity in young children. A further restaurant (Domino’s Pizza Group) producing product lines free of the colours has been added to the list, which includes both companies whose product ranges have never contained the 6 colours and product ranges that have been reformulated to remove the colours.
Press release ~ Caterers and restaurants with product ranges free from the six colours ~ Manufacturers with product ranges free from the six colours ~ Retailers with product ranges free from the six colours ~ FSA: Intolerance to additives
HSE: New training legislation came into force on 1 October 2009, which included revised guidance for employers and revised guidance for first aid training organisations.
