Teachers and other professionals who work with young people making choices about courses of study and future careers are to get extra support in the shape of an updated equalities teaching pack.”Does Sex Make a Difference” has been updated for teachers and advisers and contains four lesson plans on the sorts of jobs boys and girls could do, the career choices they make, the pay gap, women in public life, and domestic violence. 

A campaign has begun to boost awareness of the work done by local councils to persuade pensioners and people on low incomes to collect unclaimed council tax benefit payments. 

This best practice guide to website management in the public sector, prepared by the Society of IT Management, sets out what it takes to create and maintain a successful ‘transactional’ public sector website. It builds on the findings of five years of Better Connected surveys of local authority websites, as well as additional research with the web management teams of the best local authority sites.