"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”
Events this week:
November 25th- White Ribbon Day 2024
Legislation/Regulation of the week
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (SVGA 2006) is a law that aims to prevent people who are unsuitable from working with children or vulnerable adults from gaining access to them. The SVGA 2006 established a Vetting and Barring Scheme that requires individuals to apply to be monitored by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) if they want to work with children or vulnerable adults.
The SVGA 2006 places legal obligations on organizations to:
· Safeguard children and vulnerable adults
· Promote their welfare
· Conduct additional checks on employees and volunteers
· Communicate concerns to relevant local agencies
(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
Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating
Why are ultra-processed foods so irresistible, and how they have come to dominate food culture? This documentary by medical doctor and academic Dr Chris van Tulleken features interviews with former food industry insiders who talk openly about the way in which popular foods have been designed to be irresistible.
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
White Ribbon Day 2024
White Ribbon is the UK’s leading charity engaging men and boys to end violence against women and girls.
Our aim is to prevent violence against women and girls by addressing its root causes. We work with men and boys to change long-established, and harmful, attitudes, systems and behaviours around rigid gender norms and masculinity that perpetuate inequality and violence.
(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)
Safeguarding & ED & I
Check out the Early Years library: Resource
The Early Years Library is designed to help early childhood education practitioners support young children’s development and essential skills for life. It describes the key skills relating to their cognitive and social-emotional development, and provides a comprehensive set of low-burden strategies and activities which can be integrated into everyday practice.
The Early Years Library has been meticulously crafted to aid professionals in early childhood education, enabling them to nurture the developmental needs and foundational life skills of young children. It depicts the critical abilities linked to young children’s cognitive and socio-emotional growth while offering an extensive collection of effortlessly implemented tactics and exercises that you could use to seamlessly blend into daily teaching routines.
(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)
Safeguarding: The 12 barriers preventing child sexual abuse disclosures
Educational staff have a duty to report child abuse, but a significant challenge in fulfilling this duty is the reluctance of children to disclose abuse due to mistrust or fear of consequences. Sec-Ed has published an article that outlines twelve barriers to children's disclosure of abuse.
The 12 barriers to children's disclosure of abuse can be categorised into developmental, emotional and mental health factors, barriers related to other people, and barriers associated with societal norms.
(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)
Navigating the Dark Web of Revenge Porn: Protecting Our Children & Young People Online
In today's digital era, caregivers are tasked not only with ensuring the physical well-being of children but also with safeguarding them from the potential dangers lurking in the online world. Recent investigations have unearthed disturbing revelations about the dark corners of the internet affecting our youth, particularly concerning the rise in revenge porn, online child abuse material viewing, and the dark web of intimate image abuse, demanding immediate attention from caregivers. Revenge porn, a sinister act within the digital realm, inflicts humiliation and violation upon its victims. This harmful practice involves the unauthorised sharing or distribution of private, often sexual, content online without the subject's consent. Unfortunately, the ease of sharing intimate content in the digital age has normalised this behaviour, leaving victims emotionally scarred long after the explicit images are removed.
(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)
Engaging and capturing the voice of SEND young people: Podcast
Capturing the voice and views of people is one of the key principles to effective safeguarding practice. But what if there are speech and language or communication barriers?
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/engaging-and-capturing-the-voice-of-send-young-people/id1637397440?i=1000649797939
(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)
Responding to low-level concerns about adults working in education
The statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) 2024 includes guidance for schools and colleges in England on dealing with low-level concerns about the behaviour of teachers, other staff, volunteers and contractors (Department for Education (DfE), 2024).
We’ve summarised what the guidance says schools and colleges need to have in place.
(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)
Snapchat most-used app for grooming, says NSPCC
The messaging app Snapchat is the most widely-used platform for online grooming, according to police figures supplied to the children's charity the NSPCC.
More than 7,000 Sexual Communication with a Child offences were recorded across the UK in the year to March 2024 - the highest number since the offence was created. Snapchat made up nearly half of the 1,824 cases where the specific platform used for the grooming was recorded by the police.
(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 you need to know about flu
Public Health England estimates that 14,500 people died from the flu over winter 2022 to 2023. The flu vaccine is one of the best protections - as well as reducing the risk of catching flu, it cuts the chance of complications if you get it..
But how can you avoid catching it in the first place?
(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)
Keeping warm and well: staying safe in cold weather
This guidance provides advice for everyone on how to stay warm and well during winter. Anyone can become unwell if they get too cold. It is important to follow this guidance so that you are prepared for cold weather and can take action to keep yourself warm. There are also actions you can take to keep healthy during the cold weather.
(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)
UK weather: Cold health alerts begin ahead of snow and ice warnings
The Met Office has warned people to get their "woolly jumpers at the ready!" as temperatures drop into single figures, ahead of potential frost across the UK next week.
For several days forecasters have been predicting a cold front will move in across the UK, but until now there has been uncertainty about the probability and impact of snow.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-cold-health-alerts-begin-ahead-of-snow-and-ice-warnings-to-coincide-with-monday-rush-hour-13255496
(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 help during an asthma attack
During an asthma attack, the muscles of the air passages in the lungs go into spasm. As a result, the airways become narrowed, which makes breathing more difficult. Sometimes there is a recognised trigger for an attack, such as a cold, drugs, cigarette smoke, or allergies. At other times, there is no obvious trigger.
(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
Facing your fear of the doctor: tips for easing medical anxiety
Many of us feel anxious or nervous when visiting the doctor. But people with iatrophobia have a more intense, irrational fear. If you have doctor anxiety, we have some advice from a medical professional to help you overcome it.
Phobias are overwhelming fears that some of us have in response to specific things or events. They can result from a distorted view of danger about a situation, animal, experience, or object. Intense phobias can disrupt your normal activities, causing you to go to great lengths to avoid the triggers of your fear. In some cases, phobias can significantly impact the quality of your life - particularly if you have iatrophobia.
(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)
Equity: Change Project
The Equity Change Project brought together academics, practitioners in adult social care, and people with lived experience to explore how intersectionality can help achieve equitable experiences and outcomes in adult social care. Intersectionality is a tool for analysing how different forms of oppression interact and intersect to influence lived experiences. These resources will help you use intersectionality to explore the practices, attitudes and actions needed to overcome barriers, challenge oppression and increase equity.
This resource is about topics that demand deep reflection and touch us in a profound way. We hope that it will be inspiring, leading people to build on the passion and commitment to social justice that is so evident in social care. We hope that each person will find something that speaks to you and that you can take into what you know, feel and do.
(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. 30 mins)
Learners feeling the pinch from Festive spending? -Pay day loan support and information
With December always been a big spending month, many learners may now be getting into debt due to using buy now pay later schemes to get them through the festive season.
Organisations such as Step Change and Money helper offer loan and debt advice to those who may now be struggling financially into the new 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. 40 mins)
What are my maternity rights?
When it comes to maternity leave, your entitlements as a mum today are better than ever before. And that means it’s easier to spend more stress-free time preparing for and bonding with your little one.
Alongside the excitement of having a new baby, it’s important that you feel financially secure so that you can focus all of your energies into looking after the new arrival. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the guidelines for your maternity leave are straightforward. Many mums find getting to grips with their maternity pay quite stressful. It can be a confusing topic, so try and read up on your maternity rights before the time comes so you know everything is in place.
(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
The world put the brakes on nuclear weapons. Is it time to do the same with fossil fuels?
The fear of nuclear war forced nations to come together to stop the spread of atomic weapons. As the world confronts the reality of climate change, could a similar idea curb the use of fossil fuels?
Humanity is at another precarious point, teetering close to a rise of 1.5C in average global temperatures, which risks huge changes to human health and lives. In 2023, another Irish leader, former president Mary Robinson, warned that the world faced an "existential threat"; that year was confirmed as the hottest on record. This year is likely to be also.
(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)
'When I was cycling, the world was big again': What it takes to replace a flight with a long-distance bike ride
Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned.
Cycling is one of the greenest and cheapest ways to travel short distances. Longer distance cycle touring, meanwhile, remains a popular holiday option, even gaining new levels of fame as so-called dotwatching enables onlookers to follow "bikepacking" races from their own sofas. But most would consider it impractical to travel the kind of distances covered by planes.
To test out whether it really could be a long-distance travel option for me, in June 2024 I cycled 1,500km (930 miles) from London to Sweden over the course of 17 days.
(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)
Sustainable brands you can trust
Whether you’re looking for sustainable, safe bathroom products or ways to transform your business, these handpicked brands and services will enhance your life with trusted, ethical solutions.
(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- Refugees: Our capacity to love is infinite
Globally, more than 84 million people have been forcibly displaced. What protection do refugees have? How can we help those forced to flee their homes? In episode 2, we hear powerful stories of strength and solutions from Jaz O’Hara, Amali Tower, Ilwad Elman and Hamed Amiri.
(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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