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The ten most recent good practice and guidance documents published on the communities and neighbourhoods site.

• Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion contingency planning and tension monitoring

  Tension monitoring and contingency planning can help develop our ability to identify tensions and develop solutions in a way that both helps us to understand threats to community and reduce the likelihood of conflicts occurring.

  • Added:  12 May 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Preventing Violent Extremism: Community Leadership Fund Guidance

  This grant fund is intended to support work that will build the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to take the lead on tackling violent extremist influences.

  • Added:  9 April 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Working Neighbourhoods Fund allocations

  This document provides details on the third Working Neighbourhoods Fund criterion and how amounts of funding were determined.

  • Added:  26 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Reports and summaries

• Community cohesion impact assessment and community conflict prevention tool

  This tool allows local authorities to assess whether the activities they are planning will have a positive impact on cohesion in their neighbourhoods.

  • Added:  4 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Communicating important information to new local residents

  This leaflet introduces the IDeA web based guidance on communicating information to new migrants.

  • Added:  4 February 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Empowering Muslim Women: Case Studies

  These case studies provide a snapshot of some of the good work that is taking place across the country to empower Muslim women to play a more active role in both their own communities and in wider society.

  • Added:  23 January 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Reports and summaries

• How to develop a local charter - A guide for local authorities

  Local charters are an effective way to help communities and local authorities andother providers of public services, to work together. This guide provides advice and good practice to help plan a charter that meets local need.

  • Added:  22 January 2008
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Guidance for Local Authorities on Translation of Publications

  This guidance sets out the steps local authorities can take when they are considering translation of their publications.

  • Added:  7 December 2007
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Towards Lifetime Neighbourhoods: Designing sustainable communities for all. A discussion paper

  Towards Lifetime Neighbourhoods: Designing sustainable communities for all. A discussion paper.

  • Added:  19 November 2007
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Guidance on new measures to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods, facilities and services

  Guidance on the effects of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007, outlawing discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities services. Published 30 April 2007.

  • Added:  30 April 2007
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Legislation and policy