Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
SE: A new online tool from Sport England will help sports organisations to know more about their potential customers so they can offer the right sport in the right place, targeted in the right way. The web tool brings together Sport England’s insight & research on sports participation, with the wealth of information held by Experian and the mapping excellence of Ordnance Survey. It’s based on 19 sporting personality types developed by Sport England to help us understand attitudes to sport and motivations for doing it (or not).
BHF:
Your Sunday roast could be hiding a salty secret according to a survey of roast dinner products. Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) looked at the level of salt in ready-made gravy, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings and other condiments often found on the family dinner table. Many of them were found to have high levels of salt, with some items containing a third of your daily allowance in just one portion.
Press release ~ BHF: Cut down on salt ~ High blood pressure ~ Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH)
Press release ~ BHF: Cut down on salt ~ High blood pressure ~ Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH)
Business Link: The standard rate of VAT is currently 17.5% but will be increased to 20% on 4 January 2011. The guide below tells you how to account for the change to the standard rate of VAT. It also tells you where you can get further information.
DfT: A free website to ‘help road safety practitioners evaluate their education, training and publicity activities’ was launched last week by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Department for Transport. At the heart of the Road Safety Evaluation website is E-valu-it- an interactive tool that ‘helps practitioners define exactly what they are doing and why, allows them to design and carry out their evaluation, and promotes the publication and sharing of results’.
Newswire – AC: The Audit Commission has indicated where users need to go for future information / help on:
* The National Indicator Set (NIS)
* Its Value for Money Tool
MLA: A guide to help council leaders & library practitioners act on the latest research into what the public wants from library services, has been published by the MLA. The guide offers rich illustrations of good practice and tips on how to shape the service for the future.
