Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
Newswire – BSI: Developed with the University of Bradford and a panel of healthcare experts, PAS 800 (Publicly Available Specification) is intended to ensure that care provider organizations (such as hospital wards & care homes) have comprehensive guidance to assist them in the Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) process.
PAS 800 Use of Dementia Care Mapping for person-centred care in a provider organization should ultimately lead to improved well-being & quality of life for people with dementia.
PAS 800 Use of Dementia Care Mapping for person-centred care in a provider organization should ultimately lead to improved well-being & quality of life for people with dementia.
Press release ~ PAS 800: Use of Dementia Care Mapping for person-centred care in a provider organization
LLUK: Following their consultation with the Community Learning & Development (CLD) sector, the CLD Standards Council for Scotland have published a Code of Ethics for CLD containing 13 clauses. A report on the consultation process, prepared by Peter Taylor and Howard Sercombe, which describes & analyses the range of responses received, is also available on the CLD Standards Council website.
Newswire – WWF: Responsible soy has moved closer to being available in the marketplace with members of the soy industry agreeing to finalize new global standards to improve soy production.
Recently the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) adopted voluntary sustainability standards that will help ensure that current soy production and further expansion of the crop will be done in an environmentally sound & socially responsible way that avoids clearance of forests and high conservation value areas. The standards also call for soy production to avoid polluting the environment and creating social conflicts.
Recently the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) adopted voluntary sustainability standards that will help ensure that current soy production and further expansion of the crop will be done in an environmentally sound & socially responsible way that avoids clearance of forests and high conservation value areas. The standards also call for soy production to avoid polluting the environment and creating social conflicts.
Press release ~ RTRS Principles and Criteria for Responsible Soy Version 1.0 ~ Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS)
HSE: A new campaign from the British Safety Council asks young people to take responsibility for their own health & safety. The campaign supports young people to feel confident talking to their work supervisor, parent, teacher or friends if they feel that they are in an unsafe situation. No young person should feel pressurised to work in an environment where there is a risk of injury or death.
MLA: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has launched new case studies, guidance & tools to support museums, libraries & archives in planning how they deliver their services and in measuring their contribution to social outcomes.
