Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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As we all know the world is obsessed with abbreviations and it is difficult to find anything that is not filled with upper case letter combinations that often confuse as much as they inform. In order to help people wade through the documents I share the latest list I have received. If anyone has any more I would love to see them. These come from the Dover Deal Children's Centres.
GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
A&E Accident and Emergency
AB Advisory Board
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AEN Additional Educational Needs
AOB Any Other Business
AP Action Plan
ASCL Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning
ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders
BME Black and Minority Ethnic
BP Business Plan
CAB Citizens Advice Bureau
CAF Common Assessment Framework
CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CAST Child and Adolescent Support Team
CC Children's Centre
CFE Children, Families and Education
CFIS Children and Family Information Service
CIW Community Involvement Worker
CLL Communication, Language and Literacy
COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
CRB Criminal Records Bureau
CSS Children's Social Services
CSW Community Support Worker
CV Curriculum Vitae
CVS Community and Voluntary Sector
CYP Children and Young People
CYPP CYP Plan
DA Domestic Abuse
DAB District Advisory Board
DDC Dover District Council
DDSCC Dover Deal and Sandwich Children's Centres
DUST Drug Use Screening Tool
DV Domestic Violence
EAL English as an Additional Language
ECM Every Child Matters
ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages
EYFS Early Years Foundation Stage
EYP Early Years Practitioner
EYFSP EYFS Profile/Progress
FLO Family Liaison Officer
FSM Foundation Stage Manager
FSP Foundation Stage Progress/Points/Profile
F/T Full Time
FTE Full Time Equivalent
GP General Practice/Practitioner
H&S Health and Safety
HASAW Health and Safety at Work
HP Health Promotion
HT Headteacher
HV Health Visitor
HSE Health and Safety Executive
JCP Job Centre Plus
KCA Kent Council for Addiction
KCC Kent County Council
Dover Deal and Sandwich Children's Centres Glossary of Abbreviations (October 2011) Page 2
KCT Kent Children's Trust
KSCB Kent Safeguarding Children Board
LA Local Authority
LAC Looked After Child
LCTB Local Children's Trust Board
LPA Lone Parent Adviser
LSG Local Steering Group
MARAC Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference
MCA Midwifery Care Assistant
M/W Widwifery (Team)
NCMA National Childminding Association
NEET Not in Education, Employment or Training
O/R Outreach (Team)
P&T Parent and Toddler/s
PA Personal Assistant
P/Link Playlink
PND Post Natal Depression
PCSO Police Community Support Officer
PSM Preventative Services Manager
P/T Part Time
QR Quarterly Report
QT Qualified Teacher
RAG Red, Amber, Green
RIDDOR Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
ROSPA Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents
SAL or S&L Speech and Language
SALT SAL Team/Therapy/Therapist/ Technician
SALTA SAL Technical Assistant
SEF Self Evaluation Form
SEN Special Educational Needs
SG Steering Group
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLT Speech & Language Team/Therapy
Senior Leadership Team
SPA Single Point of Access
SSLP Sure Start Local Programme
TAC Team Around the Child
VCS Voluntary and Community Sector
WG Working Group
YAPS Young Able Parents
YMTD You Make The Difference
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
they drive me mad most are unecessary and confuse people, a quick glance at those tells me i would recognise about 10%,
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#3
Well done Chris, I'll sit back and enjoy the replies and suggestions your going to get.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
#4
Another problem with them is the same group of initials can mean something very different to different groups.
Several of the list have a totally different meaning to me and my field of work ie MCA is midwife care assistant to Chris but to me is Mental Capacity Act.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#5
I hate TLAs.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
#6
When I first started working more closely with HMPS I spent at least 3 months nudging people asking "what does that mean?"!!!!! Everything is an acronym or an abbreviation.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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But to me, in a totally different field, MCA is the Maritime and CoastGuard Agency, also have the ISPS (International Ship and Port Security code), TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit), FEU (Forty Foot Equivalent Unit), GM (Distance between metacentre and centre of gravity), TM (Torsional Moment), BM (Bending Moment), GoM (Distance between the metacentre and the centre of gravity after taking into account the FSM (free surface moment)), MPCH (Moves per crane hour), TEUPH (twenty foot equivalent units per hectare), GWT (Gross Weight), SNT (Suez Net Tonnage) , NT (Net Tonnage), PNT (Panama Net Tonnage), GT (Gross Tonnage), Kts (Knots - speed in nautical miles per hour), STCW (Standards of Training Certificate Watchkeeping), MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet), BDMS (Certificate for the Transborder movement of hazardous wastes), DGN (Dangerous Goods Note), MMDGF (Multi-Modal Dangerous Goods Form), etc. etc. Then there are all the educational abbreviations that change almost yearly and which one has to get to grips with as a School Governors, the SIP, the SERP, the RAP which became the KRAP (I loved that one) and has now disappeared altogether........we live in parallel worlds filled with abbreviations particular to our own fields
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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#9
Abbreviations are supposed to make words easier and shorter. One very common abbreviation WWW actually works out longer than the original to say.
World wide web is only 3 syllables long. But WWW contains 9 syllables !
Brian Dixon
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#10
well lets see,fm's
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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And our clever educators once had the idea of a Folkestone University College Kent!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#12
well well dindt no you where well connected peter.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
brilliant peter, i knew a few of neil's collection, teu, dgn, gwt, gt and nt.
the rest meant nothing to me.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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It seems that every meeting I go to involves another, and different set of abbreviations. Even the ones used by the schools differ to those used by the Children's Centres and I will not even start on those used in the Civil Service. It would be interesting to see similar lists from the banking fraternity and the MoD.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
#15
FFS
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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#16
Peter!!
You want to try some of the abbreviations that have been used for international container liner services... One that was caught by English speaking employees of a China based ship operator and changed to Direct And Rapid Transport Service was the Fast And Rapid Transport Service running on a 4 ship loop with weekly calls in Europe and the USA. There have been some equally silly blunders by us when formulating acronyms for services that work fine in English, but mean something quite dire in other languages.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I used to ask the meaning of abbreviations used in meetings and documents when I became a school governor, people soon stopped using them to speed up the meetings by not having to stop and explain to me. The only one I never queried was the PANDA, I thought it sounded quaint to have one on school premises and didn't want to be disappointed as to what it stood for.
Ross Miller
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#18
some investment management ones to be going on with
OEIC (pronounced oik) Open Ended Investment Company
ICVC - Investment company with variable capital
SICAV - société d'investissement à capital variable (European version of an ICVC)
PAIF - Property Authorised Investment Fund
TTF - Tax Transparent Fund - UK version of the Irish CCF (common contractual fund), the French/Lux FCP or the Dutch FGR
UCITS - Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, an EU reg covering funds
MiFID - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive - another EU reg
NURS - Non UCITS Regulated Scheme - a type of investment product
ULL - Unit Linked Life - a type of unitised investment fund sold by Life Insurance cos
LDI - liability-driven investment strategy
TDF - Target Date Fund - a pension fund strategy/management technique
ACD - Authorised Corporate Director
IMA - Investment Management Agreement also Investment Management Association
SEDOL- Stock Exchange Daily Official List - a UK identification system for traded securities
ISIN - International Securities Identification Number - international version of above
GMSLA - Global Master Stock Lending Agreement
ETF - Exchange Traded Fund
ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association - trade org for participants in the OTC market and also providers of a standard form of contract for counterparties to OTC derivatives
OTC - Over the counter - a type of derivatives contract
CDS - Credit Default Swap
ABS - Asset Backed Security
FX - Foreign Exchange
BPS - Basis Points - one BPS is 0.01% and is the way financial institutions charge
TA - Transfer Agency
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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And Mary Whitehouse was persuaded to call her lobbying organisation the National Viewers' Association instead of 'Clean Up National TV'
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#20
Peter, you are having way too much fun with this.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
