The People and Communities Board, one of the Five Year Forward View programme boards, has published 'Six principles for engaging people and communities'. The principles offer a practical steer on developing the 'new relationship with people and communities' set out in the Five Year Forward View. Embedding people and communities engagement is a 'must do' and the six principles aim to help build knowledge, confidence and motivation to develop person centred, community-focussed approaches to health and care.

The six principles documents demonstrate why the principles are important, provide a guide to putting them into practice, offer cas

A new online toolkit has been published on the Skills Platform. It has been developed specifically for charities to help them to use social media most effectively for their organisation. It includes tips on best practice.

Public Health England has partnered with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families to launch a resource to help schools and colleges in the UK to measure and monitor children and young people's wellbeing. The toolkit aims to raise awareness amongst school and college staff of the range of validated tools that are available to help measure subjective mental wellbeing amongst the student population.

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Acronym buster from the NHS Confederation , including an acronym app

Right Care Glossary: key terms used in value improvement, variation analysis, programme budgeting, marginal analysis, systems, networks and pathways

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Glossary of common terms used in latest terms and expressions used in planning and local government (LGA)

Local Government Glossary – a wiki based glossary

A glossary for NHS finance and gover

LawWorks, who are supported by The Law Society, arrange free legal advice for small charities and not-for-profit organisations in England and Wales. LawWorks' Not-For-Profits Programme helps connect volunteer solicitors with small charities and not-for-profit organisations in need of legal advice.

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