“Develop success from failure. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success”
Events this week:
September 30th- National Non-Verbal Awareness Day 2024
October 1st- October 6th- Anaphylaxis Awareness Week 2024
October 1st- October 7th- National Vegetarian Week 2024
October 1st- October 31st- ADHD Awareness Month 2024
October 4th- World Smile Day 2024
October 5th- World Teachers Day 2024
Legislation/Regulation of the week
The Equality Act 2010
A new Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. It brings together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single Act. The Act provides a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all. It provides Britain with a discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
Please remember to review this in your policy/legislation review workbook)
Videos of the week
Scam Land: Money, Mayhem and Maseratis
Mobeen Azhar investigates the story of a 20-year-old medical student who went from handing out cash to strangers to being at the centre of an alleged multi-million-pound scam.
Watching this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 60 mins)
Event of the week/month
ADHD Awareness Month 2024
ADHD Awareness Month’s goal is to provide reliable information and resources to help people thrive with ADHD. Although the month of October is designated as ADHD Awareness Month, learning and sharing information about ADHD is beneficial all year long! In keeping with our 2024 theme, Awareness is Key!, we encourage the ADHD community to increase awareness and understanding by sharing ADHD information and supports with all who could benefit.
The month is a time to reflect on what ADHD is, how it affects people, and celebrate neurodiversity in general.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
Safeguarding & ED & I
More than 1,500 child trafficking victims in UK feared back with exploiters
The children’s commissioner for England has warned that some child trafficking victims are not being adequately protected when referred to support services, after the Guardian learned that more than 1,500 victims identified for support are at risk of falling back into the hands of their traffickers.
Child trafficking victims include UK children forced into county lines drug dealing and Albanian children locked up and forced to cultivate cannabis plants.
The children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, was commenting on new freedom of information data shared with the Guardian, which was obtained by the anti-trafficking organisation After Exploitation.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
Parent-infant relationships: starting conversations (practitioner guide)
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 50 mins)
Supporting children who have additional needs and disabilities (SEND/ASN/ALN)
Our resources, information and guidance will help you protect children and young people who have additional needs and disabilities and help prevent abuse and neglect.
We are using the term special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to refer to children who have disabilities or additional needs. Your organisation may use other terms such as additional needs, additional support needs (ASN) or additional learning needs (ALN).
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 40 mins)
Bullying and Victimisation and the link with Adverse Childhood Experiences – recording: Webinar
Both adverse childhood experiences and bullying victimization are linked with mental health problems in adolescents. However, little is known about the overlap between the two factors and how this impacts adolescent mental health problems (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems). This session will present data from a current study to estimate associations between ACEs, bullying victimization and mental health problems respectively, adjusting for sex, race/ethnicity, country of birth, household income, parental education, and study site, and discuss the implications for practice.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 120 mins)
Unlawful care homes ‘profiteer’ from at-risk kids
Unlawful children’s homes are demanding up to £20,000 a week per child and failing to keep vulnerable young people safe, the Family Court has heard.
In one case, heard in August in Liverpool, the court heard how despite the local authority paying high fees to an unregistered children’s home, a 14-year-old boy was still at serious risk.
Increased demand for placements, especially for children with the most complex needs, has led to costs described as “breathtaking” by a senior judge.
The estimated bill for housing children in one local authority area has more than doubled in three years to £16m, one senior manager told the BBC, which risks bankrupting the council.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
Met Police launches strategy on improving policing for children
The Metropolitan Police has launched a new strategy designed to improve officers’ knowledge on safeguarding children and improve young people’s trust in the force. The Children’s Strategy, which is two years in the making, sets out 36 commitments for the force including improving training for tens of thousands for officers on issues including tackling the adultification of children, safeguarding and how vulnerabilities can increase young people’s risk of involvement in crime.
Further commitments included greater partnership working with social care and education partners to improve communication with local communities and boost training for staff.
“We will integrate trained schools officers into Neighbourhood Ward teams to achieve a wider community focussed crime prevention approach to support the safety of children both inside and outside of school,” the strategy states.
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news/met-police-launches-strategy-on-improving-policing-for-children
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
Health & Safety
What are the main causes of asthma and asthma attacks?
Asthma is a long-term lung condition that around 12% of UK population have been diagnosed as having, according to the British Lung Foundation. While some people with asthma in childhood eventually grow out of it, others require ongoing management into adulthood. The good news is, there are ways to better manage asthma and significantly improve someone's quality of life.
It may be common, but the exact causes of asthma are not fully understood. However, we do know that genetics and environmental factors can affect who develops the condition. We also know the common triggers that may cause symptoms to flare up.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
Health and Safety at Work Act: UK’s leading legal practitioners give their views
As the UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 celebrates its half-century, Paul Verrico, partner, Eversheds, asked some of the UK’s leading legal practitioners for their views on its efficacy.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
How to use a defibrillator
By using a defibrillator before an ambulance arrives, you can significantly increase someone’s chance of survival. Learn what to do. This guide tells you how to use a defibrillator. Defibrillators are very sage, tell you what to do and you don't need specific training to use one. For more information on what a defibrillator is, please read our Defibrillator guide for first time buyers. For more information on where to access a defibrillator and different casualty scenarios, please read our Defibrillators - guide for rescuers. Please visit our online shop if you would like to buy a defibrillator.
https://www.sja.org.uk/get-advice/first-aid-advice/how-to/how-to-use-a-defibrillator/?category=12349
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 10 mins)
Violence and aggression at work
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines work-related violence as:
‘Any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work.’
It is important to remember that this can include:
· verbal abuse or threats, including face to face, online and via telephone
· physical attacks
This might include violence from members of the public, customers, clients, patients, service users and students towards a person at work.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
Wider Curriculum
Labour Party Conference: Prime Minister pledges better access to social housing for care leavers
The government has announced that care leavers aged under 25 will be given priority access to social housing and exemption from requirements meaning they must have links to a specific area to live there.
Speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this week (22 – 25 September), Prime Minister Keir Starmer told delegates that care leavers will be exempt from local connection rules which require a connection to a local area before accessing social housing – these can include family or work connections or having lived in an area for as long as 12 months before accessing housing.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
More than 400 nurseries closed over last two years, research finds
Over the last two academic years 415 nurseries have been forced to close, impacting places for more than 20,000 children, research has revealed. It found that in the 12 months to September this year 199 nurseries closed, and a further 216 closed their doors the previous year.
Nurseries in areas of deprivation are among the most likely to be forced to cease operating, warns the research by the National Day Nurseries Association.
Just under four in 10 closures this year took place in the most deprived areas of the country, including in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds.
“Chronic underfunding” for free hours for three- to four-year-olds is a major factor in nurseries going bust, NDNA chief executive Purnima Tanuku said.
“Earlier this year providers told us that their staffing costs alone were increasing by around 15% but the rate paid for places only went up by 4.6%," she said.
(Watching this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
How to Build Confidence at Work
Do you have a hard time voicing your thoughts at work even when you want to? You’re not alone. The important thing to remember is that your lack of confidence is not an inherent flaw, and these limitations don’t have to define you. Confidence can be learned and practiced.
· Step 1: Connect with yourself. Take the time to understand who you are, where your motivations lie, and what makes you unique. Remember that your uniqueness is valuable. You have something important to share, no matter how obvious or uninspiring it may seem to you.
· Step 2: Focus on building confident behaviors. Know that any mindset shift is going to take time. So, start small and be deliberate about each effort. Don’t expect change to happen overnight. But, keep at it and build your confidence muscle.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
Prime Minister overhauls apprenticeships to support opportunity
The government is boosting opportunities for young people through ambitious apprenticeship reforms in England.
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson today announced a new growth and skills levy which will replace the existing apprenticeship levy and include new foundation apprenticeships.
These new apprenticeships will give young people a route in to careers in critical sectors, enabling them to earn a wage whilst developing vital skills.
The new levy will also allow funding for shorter apprenticeships, giving learners and employers greater flexibility over their training than under the existing system – where apprenticeships must run for at least 12 months.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
Sustainability
Climate Change- The Facts with Sir David Attenborough
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat. Interviews with some of the world’s leading climate scientists explore recent extreme weather conditions such as unprecedented storms and catastrophic wildfires. They also reveal what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for both human populations and the natural world in the future.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 60 mins)
The SEC’s new climate disclosure rule passes // The Week in Sustainability: Video
As predicted, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the long-awaited climate disclosure rule this week. The impact? Now, thousands of public companies will be required to disclose material scope 1 and 2 emissions. The disclosure law marks a significant milestone in corporate climate reporting, driving the imperative for strategic alignment and comprehensive risk management. In this episode of The Week in Sustainability, we welcome Christopher McClure a partner and ESG services leader for Crowe LLP, a leading public accounting, consulting, and technology firm.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 20 mins)
Kent Environment Strategy
Kent faces unprecedented growth and change over the coming decades. The Kent Environment Strategy (KES) recognises and addresses the challenges and opportunities that this will bring.
Working together through the strategy and across sectors, the task is to continue to support economic growth whilst protecting and enhancing our natural and historic environment and creating and sustaining communities that are vibrant, healthy and resilient.
A shared vision and successful collaborations will result in actions that will ensure that Kent is a place of choice to live, work and visit.
Our strategy has 3 themes:
· building the foundations for delivery
· making best use of existing resources, avoiding or minimising negative impacts
· working towards a sustainable future.
(Reading this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 30 mins)
An Idiot’s guide to change the world- Using collective power for change
Whether you are the head of a global corporation or a non-profit, everyone has a role to play in driving action that benefits the planet. And as customers we have the power and responsibility to put our money with the businesses that are fighting for that action. In the final episode of this bonus halftime series, Loyiso Madinga and Gail Gallie meet two leaders who are striving for sustainable outcomes in very different ways. Jesper Brodin is CEO of the Ingka Group, owners of IKEA. He has set his own goal for 2030: to reduce IKEA’s carbon footprint by 50%. Jesper tells us how he keeps climate concerns at the heart of his decision-making while running a very successful company, and why other businesses need to evolve too. Gloria Walton is CEO and president of the Solutions Project, which amplifies and funds climate justice solutions created by frontline communities to take control of their own futures.. She tells us why giving power to these communities is key to creating meaningful change in the second half.
(Watching this can be counted towards your 20% off the Job learning if it links to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your apprenticeship standard – Approx. 60 mins)
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