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Glossary : C
A to Z of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms
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- .cdr : Coreldraw file format
- .csv or CSV : Comma Separated Value or Comma Separated Variables file
- CA : Certification Authority / Certificate Authority
- CAB or CABx : Citizens Advice Bureau / Citizens Advice Bureaux
- CABE : Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (http://www.cabe.org.uk)
- CACDP : Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People
- CACFOA : Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association
- CAD : Communities Against Drugs
- CAD : Computer Aided Design
- CAE : Centre for Accessible Environments
- CAF : Common Assessment Framework
- CAMEO : Community Alarm Multi-Equipment Organisation
- CAMHS : Child and adolescent mental health services
- CAMS : Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies
- CAP : Common Agricultural Policy
- CAP : Compliance Action Plans
- CAPI : CryptoAPI
- CAPT : Child Accident Prevention Trust
- CAPTCHA : Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA Project : http://www.captcha.net)
- CARE : Communities against Runway Expansion
- CASCs : Community Amateur Sports Clubs
- CAST : the Center for Applied Special Technology
- CBN : Community Broadband Network
- CBRN : chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear
- CC : Carbon Copy
- CC : City Council
- CC : Community cohesion
- CC : County Council
- CCA : Coastal Conservation Area
- CCA : Colour Contrast Analyser
- CCD : charge-coupled device
- CCETSW : Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- CCP : Community Campaign Pack
- CCP : Compression Control Protocol
- CCT : Compulsory Competitive Tendering (now abolished and replaced by Best Value)
- CCTV : Closed-circuit television
- CD : Chart Datum
- CD : Compact Disk
- CD : Corporate Director(s)
- CDC : Center for Disease Control
- CDG : Centreline Downwash Generating, or CDG, wing
- Cdi : County Dance Initiative
- CDI : Customer Data Integration
- CDP : Center for Disease Prevention
- CDP : CRL Distribution Point
- CD-R : Compact Disc-Recordable
- CD-RW : Compact Disc-ReWritable
- CDRP : Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
- CDRP or CDRPs : Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships(s)
- CE : Chief Executive
- CE : the Common Era (as opposed to AD)
- CEEP : European Centre for Enterprises with Public Participation
- CEHO : Chief Environmental Health Officer(s)
- CEHR : Commission for Equality and Human Rights
- CEMR : Council for European Municipalities and Regions
- CEMT : Chief Executive's Management Team
- CenSus : Central Sussex Partnership of Adur,
Horsham and Mid-Sussex DCs. Working on joint implementations of software
for key services and the potential for the business to merge or share services.
- Cert : Certificate
- CESG : Communications-Electronics Security Group, part of GCHQ
- CETLD : Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design
- CfBT : Centre for British Teachers
- CFC : Chlorofluorocarbons
- CFCIPD : Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- CFMP : Catchment Flood Management Plan
- CfPS : Centre for Public Scrutiny
- CHA : County Highway Authority
- CHAP : Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
- CHAS : Contractor Health and Safety Assessment Scheme
- CHAT : Conversational Hypertext Access Technology
- CHD : Coronary Heart Disease
- CHIEF : Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight
- CIA : Conservative Independent Alliance
- CIBSE : Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers
- CID : Criminal Investigation Department
- CIEH : Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
- CIH : Chartered Institute of Housing
- CIIT : Centre for Innovation through IT
- CILIP : Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- CIM : Customer Interaction Management
- CIO or CIOs : Chief Information Officer(s)
- CIP : Council Information Point
- CIPD : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- CIPFA : Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
- CIPFA : Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountability
- CIPS : Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
- CIRFS : Communities First in Rural Somerset
- CIS : Center for Internet Security
- CIS : Construction Industry Scheme
- CIT : Construction Industry Tax
- CITP : Certificate in Training Practice
- Citrix : Software that enables remote applications (ie not based in Adur) to be accessed with much lower expenditure on telephone networks. Also used for home access.
- CIX : Commercial Internet Exchange
- CJIT : Criminal Justice Information Technology
- CLA : Children Looked After
- CLAD : Clear Language and Effectiveness Tool
- CLAW 2002 : Control of Lead at Work Regulations (and the former 1980 and 1998 Regulations)
- CLD : Commission for Local Democracy
- CLF : Common Look and Feel
- CLI : Call Line Identifier
- CLOA : Chief Leisure Officers Association
- CLS : Community Legal Service, replaced Legal Aid Board (see also LSC)
- CM : Commercial Services
- CMA : Council's Medical Adviser
- CMB : cosmic microwave background
- CMDBs : Configuration Management Databases
- CMC : Common Messaging Calls
- CMDB : Configuration Management Database
- CMF : Capital Modernisation Fund
- CMIS : central management information system
- CMP : Catchment Management Plan
- CMPS : Centre for Management and Policy Studies
- CMS : Content Management System. Overall software to enable content (written material usually) to be made managed coherently. A leaflet and a webpage, for example, could be drawn from the same information that would only need to be maintained once. In Adur, this will be key to allowing updating of the internet to be carried out by staff rather than via a central website editor.
- CMS : Colour Management System (re printers and scanners)
- CMT : Corporate Management Team
- CMYK : Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (or black) colour space - a printing technique for printing images out in full colour
- CNA : Constant Natural Asset
- CNC : Civil Nuclear Constabulary
- CNC : Critical Natural Capital
- CNET+ : ContactNet Plus
- CoC : Chamber Commerce
- CODA : Child Of Deaf Adults
- COET : Central Office of Employment Tribunal
- COHSE : Confederation of Health Service Employers (now UNISON)
- COM : Common Object Model
- COMEAP : Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants
- COMT : Chief Officers Management Team
- Content Management System - see CMS above
- CORDIS : Community Research and Development Information Service
- CoW : Clerk of Works
- CP : Child Protection
- CPA (Arch) : County Planning Authority - Archaeologist
- CPA (Countryside) : County Planning Authority - Countryside
- CPA (LB) : County Planning Authority - Listed Buildings
- CPA : Care Programme Approach (mental health)
- CPA : Coastal Protection Area
- CPA : Comprehensive Performance Assessment
- CPD : Continuing Professional Development
- CPO : Chief Personnel Officer
- CPO : Compulsory Purchase Order
- CPRE : Council for Protection of Rural England (http://www.cpre.org.uk)
- CPRE : Council for the Protection of Rural England
- CPU : Central Processing Unit
- CPU : Corporate Procurement Unit
- CPZ : controlled parking zones
- CRB : (The) Criminal Records Bureau
- CRC : Corporate Resources Committee
- CRC : Cyclic Redundancy Check
- CRE : Commission for Racial Equality
- CRI : Capital Receipts Initiative
- CRI : Crime Reduction Initiatives
- CRL : Certificate Revocation List(s)
- CRM : Customer Relationship Management. Taking
a holistic view of the customer rather than seeing them as hidden within
individual services. Usually uses CRM software to give the visibility of
the customer experience and to ensure good service is offered.
- Cross Cutting : A term used to describe an issue which may affect service delivery from more than one service provider.
- CROW : Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
- CRP : Coastal Renaissance Partnership
- CRP : Crime Reduction Programme
- CRR : Community Risk Register
- CRS : Cash Receipting System
- CRT : Cathode Ray Tube
- CS : Community Services
- CSA : Child Support Agency
- cSAC : Candidate Special Area of Conversation
- CSC : Card Security Code
- CSC : Customer Services Committee
- CSCI : Commission for Social Care Inspection
- CSE - CIPFA : (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountability) South East
- CSE : (former) Community Services and Environment Committee
- CSICOP : Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
- CSID : Called Subscriber ID string
- CSL : Central Science Laboratory
- CSMA/CD : Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
- CSMMH : Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
- CSOs : Contract Standing Orders
- CSP : Community Safety Partnership
- CSP : Cryptographic Service Provider
- CSR : Certificate Signing Request
- CSRF : Cross-Site Request Forgery (or Forgeries)
- CSS : Cascading stylesheets level
- CSS1 : Cascading stylesheets level 1
- CSS2 : Cascading stylesheets level 2
- CSS3 : Cascading stylesheets level 3 (etc ...)
- CSV or .csv : Comma Separated Value or Comma Separated Variables file
- CTB : Council Tax Benefit
- CTBI : Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
- CTI : Colour Transient Improvement
- CTL : Certificate Trust List
- CTR : Click Thru Rate
- CV : Curriculum vitae
- CVM : Contingent Valuation Method
- CVS : Concurrent Versions System
- CVS : Concurrent Versioning System
- CVT : Constantly variable transmission
- CVSSP : Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
- CX : Chief Executive
- CYPSP : Children and Young Peoples' Strategic Plans
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