"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will"
Events this week:
November 1st- November 30th- Mouth Cancer Action Month 2024
November 1st- November 30th- Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2024
November 1st- November 30th- Movember 2024- Men’s Health Awareness Month
November 4th- November 8th- Talk Money Week 2024
November 4th- November 10th- Med Safety Week
November 6th- National Stress Awareness Day 2024
November 9th- World Freedom Day 2024
November 10th- Remembrance Sunday
Legislation/Regulation of the week
Voyerurism (Offences) Act 2019
The Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019 creates 2 new offences criminalising someone who operates equipment or records an image under another person’s clothing (without that person’s consent or a reasonable belief in their consent) with the intention of viewing, or enabling another person to view, their genitals or buttocks (with or without underwear), where the purpose is to obtain sexual gratification or to cause humiliation, distress or alarm.
The offences will be triable either way and will carry a maximum 2 year prison sentence.
(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
Pride Of Britain: A Windrush special
In partnership with Pride of Britain, famous faces including Sir Trevor McDonald and Alesha Dixon share personal stories, marking 75 years since the arrival of Empire Windrush.
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
Movember 2024
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men's health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Movember aims to change the way men think about men's health, and to give men the confidence to talk about their health and act. Men grow moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues. The name is a combination of the Australian-English word for moustache, "mo", and "November". Movember raises awareness for prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health, and suicide prevention
(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
Water Beads - Safety Announcement
Water beads are marketed for various uses, including toys, crafts, home decor, and floristry. However, they pose serious health risks if swallowed. Dehydrated beads can expand in the gastrointestinal tract, potentially causing blockages that require surgery. Both hydrated and dehydrated beads can also cause asphyxiation if aspirated.
Water beads have been linked to child fatalities overseas and serious harm in the UK. When swallowed, dehydrated beads can expand in the gastrointestinal tract, causing blockages that require surgery and are difficult to detect on x-rays. Inhalation of water beads can also cause coughing and choking.
Water beads should be kept away from children under 5 years old and only used by older children under close adult supervision. Always store them out of sight and reach of 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. 30 mins)
Risk of “failing the future” if children and young people don’t get the care they need, CQC warns
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looks at the quality of care over the past year. It draws on inspection activity, findings from CQC’s national NHS patient survey programme and statutory reports, bespoke research into people’s experiences, insight from key stakeholders and evidence collected by the regulator throughout the year about the quality and safety of services in all areas of health and care.
Getting the right care, at the right time and in the right place is important for everyone. For children and young people, however, delays can have especially significant and lasting consequences. Some treatments and interventions are less effective if not administered at a specific age or developmental stage – and the opportunity to intervene can be missed completely if the wait for diagnosis is too long.
https://www.cqc.org.uk/press-release/risk-failing-future-if-children-and-young-people-dont-get-care-they-need-cqc-warns
(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)
The best kid-safe search engines & browsers
Google, YouTube, Bing and Yahoo are just some of the most powerful search engines that allow kids to find anything they want instantly. Unfortunately, these search engines also allow them to find the things you don’t want them to find. To help keep kids safe online, here are some of the best kid-friendly search engines and browsers.
(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)
Barriers and challenges to identifying neglect
The NSPCC Learning report highlights the challenges multi-agency safeguarding professionals face in addressing neglect. While these professionals are confident in identifying neglect, they often feel unable to support children and families effectively due to limited local services and resources. The report offers recommendations to the Government for developing a national strategy to better tackle neglect.
The report reveals that neglect is increasingly prevalent, with 54% of professionals observing a rise in cases, largely attributed to poverty and the rising cost of living. Despite over 90% of professionals feeling confident in identifying neglect, 83% believe there are insufficient local services to support affected families. Many professionals, particularly in healthcare (44%) and social care (22%), feel powerless to help directly. Additionally, over half of teachers (52%) report that the response from children's social care is slow, both in conducting initial assessments and in following up with interventions
(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)
Childminders - report new adults in the home
You must inform Ofsted within 14 days about any new individuals aged 16 or older living or working in the home where you care for children. This also applies when a child in the home turns 16.
Ofsted must conduct checks to ensure the safety of children in your care, including obtaining an enhanced DBS certificate with barred lists for any new adults in the home. Until the DBS check is complete, new adults cannot be left unsupervised with the children. You must notify Ofsted about the new adult without waiting for the DBS to arrive.
(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)
Remember, Remember the Dangers on 5th November!
On 5th November, we remember Guy Fawkes and his associates’ plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, usually by lighting a bonfire and setting off fireworks.
Whilst this is a fun and enjoyable time for children, we must ensure that we keep them safe around bonfires and fireworks. Click the link to find resources that will help you stay accident-free on Bonfire Night.
(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
Be Scam Safe: Resources
BBC Be Scam Safe is a joint effort between BBC programmes, Stop Scams UK, and major UK organisations, in an attempt to provide you with advice to spot, and avoid scams. We believe that empowering everybody with the tools to help identify scams, will help avoid the financial and emotional damage caused by this kind of fraud.
(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)
What is the Eatwell Guide? A balanced diet explained
The UK government's National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) found a worrying drop in people's intake of important nutrients in the UK. Even with access to a wide range of information on the subject, many people still aren't sure what makes up a balanced diet. However, if you're feeling overwhelmed by dietary bumpf, the Eatwell Guide offers a simple easy-to-follow framework for healthy eating.
The Eatwell Guide is a useful way of knowing how much of each food group you should eat to stay healthy. The Health and Food Supplement Information Service (HSIS) says that including each of these groups in your diet can help reduce your chance of developing some serious health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
(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)
#MedSafetyWeek is a social media campaign that takes place annually usually in November and each year there is a different focus or theme to encourage the reporting of suspected side effects.
This year will be the ninth annual #MedSafetyWeek social media campaign and it will take place on 4 to 10 November 2024. The theme will be ‘the importance of using medicines in the right way to prevent side effects, and to report side effects when they do occur’. MHRA is partnering with 92 organisations globally alongside the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. Please do get involved on social media and help raise awareness locally using the materials available under our resources section.
(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)
Firework and bonfire safety tips
The launch of the child-friendly safety tips come on the back of new research commissioned by Fireman Sam. The survey of 1,000 parents of children under 8 found:
· Accidents with sparklers, burns from fireworks and bonfires, and road incidents topped parents’ concerns on Bonfire Night.
· Almost a third (29 per cent) of parents have been worried about their child’s safety at an official fireworks event, while over a third (35 per cent) have been worried due to the lack of precautions at an event hosted at someone’s house.
· Almost a quarter of parents (24 per cent) wouldn’t feel confident in how to react if an accident did happen.
· A quarter have never discussed Bonfire Night safety with their little ones.
· Only four in 10 (39 per cent) said their child would know to stop, drop and roll if their clothing caught fire.
(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
Google unveils new security features to boost privacy and safety for Android users
Google is set to introduce new security features aimed at enhancing privacy and safety for Android users.
First is enhanced scam detection, which uses on-device AI to spot scam texts, like fake delivery or job scam messages. Once flagged, these texts are automatically sent to the spam folder or a warning is given to the user. This feature is currently available for beta users who have spam protection turned on.
Google is also testing a new feature that warns users about dangerous links. Already in use in India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, this feature alerts users when they receive links from unknown contacts and can block messages with suspicious links. A global rollout is expected later this year.
(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)
Online overtakes TV in survey of news habits
For the first time, online platforms have overtaken TV as the UK's main news source, according to Ofcom. The survey shows 71% of the population now use online services for news, compared to 70% for TV news bulletins. Social media usage for news also rose from 47% to 52%, with 82% of 16-24-year-olds relying on it.
Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram were the most mentioned online sources, with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) being the second biggest news provider at 40%. The BBC remains the largest single source, with 68% of respondents using it for news, though usage data shows it reaches 75% weekly.
Traditional news providers saw declines, with newspapers dropping from 39% to 34%, and TV news from 75% to 70%.
(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)
Celebrating Differences – Diwali: Video
Diwali is the five-day Festival of Lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across the world. Diwali is a festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness, and for some also coincides with harvest and new year celebrations.
The festival falls between 29th October - 3rd November but changes each year because it is set by the lunar calendar
(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)
Apprentice minimum wage to rise to £7.55
Apprentices will see an 18 per cent bump to the minimum hourly wage next year, the Treasury has announced. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said that the apprentice wage will rise from £6.40 to £7.55 an hour from April 2025.
(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
Sport 'key vehicle for change' on global issues - Coe
Sport can be the "key vehicle for change" when it comes to tackling global issues such as climate change, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.
Earlier this week, athletics' world governing body was named the Elite Organisation of the Year at the BBC Green Sport Awards.
World Athletics received the award after introducing environmental, social and governance obligations that host cities or venues need to adhere to if they want to run sanctioned events.
(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)
Diwali and its Environmental Impact: How to Celebrate Eco-friendly Diwali
India and the rest of the world celebrate Diwali with immense excitement and fervor. This wonderful festival unites people of all ages and communities and represents the victory of good over evil.
Diwali is traditionally celebrated with fireworks, sparkling lights, and sweets, but as sustainability becomes more prevalent, so does concern over the festival's effects on the environment. Diwali has an indisputable effect on the environment. Celebrating an eco-friendly Diwali can help mitigate these effects and promote sustainable practices.
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/how-to-celebrate-diwali-in-an-eco-friendly-manner-1730269153-1
(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)
Six fantastic single-use plastic alternatives to swap over to today
Since its invention at the turn of the 19th century, plastic has crept its way into almost every product imaginable. We’re even willing to bet that you’re likely close to something plastic right now. What is fascinating to think about is how that plastic item will likely be around much longer than you - perhaps even as much as 500 years or more from now!
While plastics can be used in wise ways, most manufactured plastics are single-use. This means plastics that are used once before being thrown away or recycled. Think plastic utensils, straws, food packaging and packaging materials.
Although the UK government has taken action to ban some of the most common single-use plastic items, such as plastic straws, microbeads, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds, there is still much to do. Many other single-use plastics are still in circulation, but there are easy switches we can make on a daily basis to help reduce plastic use
(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- Accessibility should be a right not a privilege
Our cities are inherently unequal by design. They were often designed by tall, white, able bodied men. So what have they overlooked? Can we reduce inequality by designing a better world? In this episode Gail and Loyiso explore the Global Goal to reduce inequality (Goal 5) and are joined by famous youtuber Molly Burke, who happens to be blind and has a load of helpful tips for designing better accessibility offline and online. And architect turned big thinker Indy Johar calls for a fundamental overhaul of an old system that perpetuates inequalities in all its forms.
(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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