Welcome to the GO Places Handbook. This section aims to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.

The main menu, which is featured on the homepage and each pages header banner, will take you through each of the four main sections of the Handbook:
Analysis: Collecting information and making sense of it
Planning: Using the information to make a plan
Delivery: Delivering the plan
Performance: Monitor the performance of the plan
Each of the four main sections are all laid out as follows:
Sixty Second Briefing: gives a short overview of the key themes
Core Questions: gives you practical answers to the most common GO challenges
Real-World scenarios: provides worked examples of problem-solving from around the country
When do I use what?: sets out a list of the key sources of data and in what circumstances these could be best put to use.
What do I need to ask?: compiles a number of ‘check lists’ for GO staff to use in certain situations e.g. moving from analysis to planning

Other sections of the handbook include:

GLOSSARY
Use the A – Z menu in the glossary for simple definitions of some of the terms and phrases used in the Handbook.

NAVIGATION
The Homepage button and the delivery cycle are always present at the top of the screen to take you back to the Homepage or directly to any of the sections. The toolbar is also always present at the bottom of the page, so you can go to the How to Use the Handbook; Tools and Techniques; Training; and Glossary pages.

SEARCH ENGINE
The search engine will return results from each section of the Handbook and the glossary to help you quickly navigate to the most useful information.

SAVING AND PRINTING PICTURE FILES
When you have clicked on a picture to view it, simply right-click on the image to bring up saving/printing instructions.

WORKING OFFLINE
Clicking on “Save page as PDF” will take you to a Web2PDF page. After a couple of seconds, a yellow bar will appear at the top of the screen with a message saying “To help protect your security, Internet Explorer blocked the site from downloading files to your computer. Click here for options…” When you get this message, click on the bar and select “Download File…” from the menu. A box will pop up and ask you to “Open”, “Save” or “Cancel”. Choose “Open”. This will create the PDF and you can then save it where you want.

TRAINING
Once you’ve had a chance to explore the sections, you can test your understanding of the issues covered with a quick on-line self assessment. The results will tell you how many you got right and point you to further information on the subjects covered in the questions.

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
This is a detailed list of external tools available online, with instructions on their use and intended audience, as well as a list of related information available online.