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. The Local Government Association fears thousands of people are missing out on help that could see them gain a full refund on council tax bills they are receiving at the moment.It has joined forces with the Department for Work and Pensions to launch a nationwide campaign to urge older people and others to pick up financial help – totalling up a billion pounds – which, it says, is lying unclaimed.
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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. It deals with management issues such as ownership and direction of the site, and technical issues such as accessibility. It also explains the assessment process used for the Better Connected surveys of local authority and other public sector websites.Published by Society of IT Management. 150.00 pounds www.socitm.gov.uk.
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