Terry, This is from the "informationage practice" site at http://www.idea-infoage.gov.uk/ Post in the DP forum 1 . "Guide for DP Officers" Posted by Alex Mitchell on Sep-04-00 at 08:39 AM (EST) This draft guide provides an excellent source of information for local government officers. The numerous examples aid the understanding of the more complex areas. It may be useful to provide a section dealing with some specific issues, such as using Council Tax information, information sharing, dealing with the modernising government agenda, the Audit Commissions 'Common Data, Common Sense' publication, direct marketing, disclosing information to elected representatives, data matching, etc. The guide is on a link from the home page. I don't think this is what you wanted but it is a good link for the local government members of this group. Regards Paul Lightowlers (Lead Business Analyst), Teignbridge District Council, Forde House, Newton Abbot, England, TQ12 4XX Tel. (01626) 361101 Fax. (01626) 334620 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%