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Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
SFA: Over the last 2 years, the Skills Funding Agency have worked closely with representatives from colleges, training organisations and sector bodies to review all aspects of the current funding system: funding rates, funding formula and earnings method.
As part of our moves to simplification, they published in January The Funding Rules for 2013/2014 and now they have published the details of the 2013/2014 simplified funding method. Both documents set out the rules and how we will work with colleges & training organisations using the simplified funding method in 2013/2014.
Monitor: New guidance will help commissioners make sure patients can access the services that they need in the event that a health care provider runs into serious difficulties. Under the Health & Social Care Act clinical commissioning groups are responsible for planning & purchasing health services for their local populations.
Press release & links ~ NHS Confederation - NHS Partners Network responds to Monitor's review of the 'fair playing field'
HO: The UK Border Force is asking travellers to familiarise themselves with the customs rules for bringing goods into the UK or risk losing all their goods. Travellers are often unaware that if they bring in more duty-free from outside the EU and fail to declare it, Border Force can seize all of their goods and not just those in excess of their allowance.
Equally, if Border Force is satisfied that EU duty-paid goods are for a commercial purpose, officers can also seize all your goods. The goods seized may include any luggage or vehicle used to transport them, so we say to travellers – ‘Don’t Risk It All’.
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