Net Mums: Netmums is a local network for mums aimed at helping mums cope and enjoy being a mum. Whether you’re looking for a local parent and toddler group, pre-school or childcare; are desperate for somewhere new to take the kids; or would like to make some new friends in your area, netmums has the answer.

Parentzone Scotland: A site offering a wide range of information for parents, carers and others responsible for school age children. The website also provides a comprehensive list of links to useful organisations and recent publications.

Caring To Work: Caring to Work: Accounts of Working Parents of Disabled Children analyses detailed accounts of parents from 40 families who are combining employment with care of disabled children. The full report is published by the Family Policy Studies Centre in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, priced

Aphis (Usda Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service): APHIS is concerned with ensuring the health and care of animals and plants, improving agricultural productivity and competitiveness, and contributing to the US national economy and public health. Topics covered are agricultural import-export, regulations, press releases and publications.

Health And Safety Handbook: The Health and Safety Handbook for Voluntary and Community Organisations proves a step-by-step guide to health and safety issues for the voluntary sector workplace. With the increase in the number of local authorities requiring community organisations to have health and safety policies as well as risk assessment procedures, this publication is invaluable. Price:

The Environmental Protection Agency: USA organisation protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment.

Age Concern: The Age Concern movement consists of a large number of locally based Age Concern and Old People’s Welfare organisations. Age Concern organisations are independent charities and also part of a nationwide movement. All Age Concern organisations exist to look after the interests of older people in their area. This is a comprehensive site and includes a rural reading list.

Rural Stress Information Network (Rsin): The Rural Stress Information Network is a valuable and authoritative source of information and advice about initiatives aimed at alleviating rural stress. They attempt to foster development of practical solutions which will help people living in rural areas who feel distressed or suicidal. They support local initiatives in most parts of England, and each support grouping has a dedicated section of the website. RSIN also provide a support telephone line based at their offices in the Arthur Rank Centre. RSIN works in partnership with ruralMinds and with the Institute of Rural Health. At the launch of the partnership, it was commented that the IRH looks at the causes of rural stress, ruralMinds tries to prevent this stress being damaging, and RSIN deals with stress that is already present.

Disability Discrimination Act: This site is maintained by the Department for Education and Employment and links to a summary of the Disability Discrimination Act with links to information for Employers, Advisors, Service Providers and Individuals. It also links to other sites of interest including: the UK Government functional index - disability issues; the World Wide Web Consortium; the Department of Transport Mobility pages; the Northern Ireland Office (DHSS) and the National Disability Council.

Community Health: The ‘New Ideas Annual 1997′ contains ideas from community organisations and the voluntary sector on community development and community health and is produced by ‘Community Links’. Contact: Community Links, The Training and Development Unit, 237 London Road, Sheffield S2 4NF. Tel: 0114 258 8822. Fax: 0114 255 9595. Email: community-links@geo2.poptel.org.uk