In addition, many of the projects assisted through the Active Communities Initiative, for example Community Service Volunteers' Retired and Senior Volunteering Programme, include volunteering opportunities in the public sector.Other steps taken to promote volunteering in the public sector include:Supporting the Active Communities Development Unit at Volunteer Development Scotland. The unit offers assistance in shaping policy and practice in the public sector and local authorities, and is working on new guidance, which should be published later this year;Publication of new guidance on volunteering in health; andSupporting Volunteer Development Scotland who, with COSLA, issued joint guidance to local authorities on how to prepare and implement volunteering policy statements.