Publications
Real meals: Simple cooking - cold food that tastes great
The DCSF has published a new cookbook for young people entitled Real meals: Simple cooking - cold food that tastes great. The book contains more than 20 recipes which will help give young people and families the chance to learn and develop cooking skills through simple, healthy dishes.
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Principles of proportionate monitoring and reporting
The Office of the Third Sector has published its Principles of proportionate monitoring and reporting, in order to lessen the unnecessary burden of monitoring on voluntary organisations. The principles commit Government departments to understanding the cost of reporting for third sector organisations and to working closely with them when establishing monitoring requirements, and will apply to all new funding streams. This is in response to the New Philanthropy Capital report in September 2008, which said that being monitored by external bodies cost charities an average of 6p in every pound of funding they received.
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Intelligent Monitoring – guidance for departments In addition, a corresponding guidance has been published by the National Audit Office entitled Intelligent Monitoring to help Government cut unnecessary red tape for the voluntary and community organisations that it funds. It has the support of the Office of the Third Sector, HM Treasury and the Commission for the Compact.