"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power"
Events this week:
October 28th – November 2nd - International Brain Tumour Awareness Week 2024
October 30th- World Online Networking Day 2024
October 31st- Halloween
November 1st- World Vegan Day 2024
November 1st – November 30th- COPD Awareness Month 2024
November 1st – National Career Development Month 2024
November 1st – National Diabetes Month 2024
Legislation/Regulation of the week
The Data Protection Act 2018
In our ever-expanding digital world, data is collected and disseminated everywhere. Because of this, it’s of paramount importance that measures are put in place to ensure that the way that data is stored and processed is done ethically and safely.
To safeguard individuals across the globe, legislation has been put in place to protect the privacy of those online. In the UK, one specific law plays a big role in doing this, and it is known as the Data Protection Act (2018).
For organisations, the Data Protection Act (2018) plays a major role in how different-sized companies can use and handle people’s data across the country. Now, the public can rest assured that their data is protected in our advanced digital era thanks to the Act’s framework.
(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
Zara McDermott: Eating Disorders
Record numbers of young people are being treated for eating disorders. Zara McDermott explores the reasons behind this explosion in cases and sets out to discover how far social media influencers like her might be part of the problem.
As a former Love Islander and reality TV star, Zara has a large number of young followers. Alongside her regular Instagram profile, Zara has a secondary page @ADayWithZara, where she shares what she eats and her rigorous exercise routines. But is she unwittingly encouraging unhealthy attitudes to food and weight loss in her followers?
The effects of the pandemic and widespread mental illness are undoubtedly key causes of disordered eating in the people Zara talks to, but the perfect images of Instagram influencers are playing their part too.
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. 70 mins)
Event of the week/month
National Career Development Month 2024
November is National Career Development Month. A whole month dedicated to promoting the importance of career development and encouraging employers and employees to invest in their professional and personal growth. There are several things we can do as professionals to invest in ourselves and ways our employers can help us to reach our career goals.
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(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
New definition of extremism (2024)
The threat from extremism has been steadily growing for many years. While the government and its partners have worked hard to combat this threat, the pervasiveness of extremist ideologies in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023 highlighted the need for further action. This new definition of extremism adds to the tools to tackle this ever-evolving threat. This is in line with the first duty of government – to keep our citizens safe and our country secure. The definition updates the one set out in the 2011 Prevent Strategy and reflects the evolution of extremist ideologies and the social harms they create.
(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)
Government publishes first details of 10-year child poverty strategy
The Cabinet Office has laid out its long-term strategy to tackle child poverty in the UK.
In its Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy report, the Cabinet Office highlights that in 2022/23, 800,000 children were living in a household using a food bank within the past 12 months and three million children were living in material deprivation.
The report cites barriers to employment for parents living in disadvantaged households and the cost-of-living crisis as key factors in rising child poverty rates.
(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)
Change the approach to targeting early years for disadvantaged children
A recent Coram Family and Childcare research report reinforces what we have sadly come to know about targeted and universal funded early education and childcare entitlements.
That being that disadvantaged children can miss out due to confusion amongst parents.
We know the experience is not easy for parents to navigate with complex systems and messaging. And this difficulty is further heightened by English as an additional language, low literacy levels, and digital poverty.
It isn’t easy for those family professionals who are in regular contact with parents either. They find it tricky to understand, explain, and keep up-to-date with the rules, regulations, and processes.
(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)
Persistently low access to childcare blighting poorer areas, Ofsted warns
Families in disadvantaged areas are the most likely to have struggled to access childcare "persistently" over the last four years, a report by Ofsted is warning.
It found that “disproportionately deprived” areas with families with lower-than-average incomes experience “persistently low access to childcare”.
These "childcare deserts" are also prevalent in the one in eight areas of England that are largely rural, adds the inspectorate's report.
It found that one in five of these areas of persistently low access are in the countryside, with providers being put off setting up nurseries there by low population density and poor transport links.
(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)
Get help for radicalisation concerns
Prevent is a national programme that aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It works to ensure that people who are susceptible to radicalisation are offered appropriate interventions, and communities are protected against radicalising influences.
Radicalisation can happen when a person develops extreme views or beliefs that support terrorist groups or activities.
There are different types of terrorism, and Prevent deals with all of them.
(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)
Help for Domestic Violence
Domestic violence or abuse can happen to anyone. Find out how to recognise the signs and where to get help. Domestic violence, also called domestic abuse, includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse in couple relationships or between family members.
Domestic violence can happen against anyone, and anybody can be an abuser.
(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
Unconventional healing: the rise of alternative therapies
Alternative wellness therapies - often called complementary, mind-body or holistic therapies - are on the rise. Some people are exploring these treatments as potential alternatives for tried and tested mental health treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). We look at the most popular ones and see what the experts think.
(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)
Manual Handling- Online Training Course: Video
Workplace manual handling occurs ‘when a person is supporting or transporting a load by hand or by using bodily force’. To avoid manual handling or musculo-skeletal injuries, performing a sufficient manual handling training and applying a few simple manual handling principles can help reduce risk.
(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)
Menopause at Work
With around 3.5 million women aged between 15 and 65 years currently in employment in the UK, women now represent nearly a half of the UK labour force. That surely makes menopause mainstream and as important as any other occupational health issue.
· Many women find they are little prepared for the onset of the menopause and are even less equipped to manage its symptoms at work. They tend not to disclose their symptoms to their manager
· The majority of women feel they need further advice and support
· Workplaces and working practices are not designed with menopausal women in mind
(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 make an elevation sling
An elevation sling is different to an arm sling. It supports the casualty's forearm and hand in a raised position.
This type of sling supports the forearm and hand in a raised position, with the fingertips touching the casualty’s shoulder. This sling can help to control bleeding and minimise swelling in the forearm or hand.
(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
What does trans mean and what is the Cass Review?
The rights of transgender or trans people - and whether they affect the rights of women - are often in the spotlight.
This has led to legal disputes, protests and discussions about free speech.
In a landmark independent review of gender identity services for under-18s, a leading clinician said children were being let down by a lack of research on medical interventions in gender care.
(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)
The Origins of Halloween Traditions
Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honoured traditions of Halloween. Yet, the Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”), a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honour saints. Soon after, All Saints Day came to incorporate some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before All Saints Day was known as All Hallows Eve, and later, Halloween.
(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)
Examples of personal development goals for your career
Creating goals for personal development and taking steps to achieve them can help you maximise your career potential. These self-improvement goals may help you enhance your skills and gain new insights and abilities that make you more efficient at work. In this article, we explain the meaning of personal development and discuss 18 examples of personal development goals.
(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)
What our learners need from the autumn budget: Opinion
Touring England’s colleges at the start of term has revealed a number of challenges holding its learners back and threatening future prosperity
I’ve had the privilege of spending the past month touring colleges across the country during Freshers. From busy city campuses to more rural colleges, it has been great listening to students from completely different backgrounds, but it’s clear that their needs and concerns are evolving rapidly.
(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
This Woman Is Making Blankets Out Of Crisp Packets For The Homeless: Video
Inventor Pen has been making blankets, sleeping bags and bivvy bags out of crisp packets for the homeless across the United Kindom.
(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. 15 mins)
The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake
The UN biodiversity summit known as COP16 officially opened in Colombia on Monday, and hopes are high that negotiating countries can agree on a path forward to safeguarding the planet.
Considered the world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the summit is taking place in Cali, the third largest city of the South American nation, and will host some 15,000 attendees, including a dozen heads of State, 103 ministers and over 1,000 international journalists.
(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)
Government crackdown on single-use vapes
Single-use vapes are not rechargeable or refillable, and are typically discarded as general waste in a bin or littered, rather than recycled – contributing to a flood of litter on our streets. Even when they are sent to recycling facilities, they usually have to be disassembled by hand – a slow and difficult process which will struggle to keep up with the pace of vape production. Their lithium-ion batteries can also present a fire risk to waste industry workers.
Last year, Materials Focus estimated that almost five million single-use vapes were either littered or thrown away in general waste every week in the UK, almost four times as much as the previous year and the equivalent of eight being thrown away per second. In 2022, they found more than 40 tonnes of lithium from single-use vapes was discarded, which is the same amount used to power 5,000 electric vehicles.
(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)
An Idiot’s guide to change the world- Why Mental Health Matters
The pandemic severely disrupted health services and derailed progress towards ending HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. It also triggered an increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression, contributing to an already growing mental health crisis. 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness every year, and nearly half of all adults will experience it at some point in their lives.
In this episode, Gail and Loyiso dive deep into the often-overlooked topic of mental health when discussing the Global Goal to good health and well-being (Goal 3). They speak with Will Poulter and Alex Holmes about their anti-bullying campaign and what might be contributing to skyrocketing rates of anxiety in young people and men, and they are joined by Sutton King to learn about mental health issues in urban indigenous communities and how plant medicines or psychedelics can offer a potential solution, as long as we learn from past mistakes.
(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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