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Monday News Issue 161- 27th January 2025

Matthew Paminter

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success


Events this week:


January 27th- Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

January 29th- February 12th- Chinese New Year 2025

January 30th- Parent Mental Health Day 2025

February 1st- National Esteem Month 2025

February 1st- National Freedom Day 2025

 

Legislation/Regulation of the week


Fire Safety Order 2005

Fire is a major risk in almost every workplace in the UK. Each year there are more than 20,000 fires that occur in buildings used for commercial or industrial purposes, according to government data.

These fires are caused by faulty equipment, improper storage of waste and human error. A common theme is that many of these incidents could have been avoided, if correct fire safety practices were followed

Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order 2005 is important legislation designed to ensure you do just that.  The aim of the fire safety regulations is to prevent a fire from starting or reduce the possibility of fire. If a fire does occur, this key legislation provides guidelines on how to contain it.

 (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


What Happened at Auschwitz

The Holocaust is a moment in history that shocked the world, but as BBC journalist Jordan Dunbar discovers, it is a story that is being diluted through disinformation and cultural amnesia. 

In a documentary marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, survivors of the camp have given new interviews about what happened at the largest mass murder site in human history. Around a million Jewish men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz during World War II – millions more were systematically killed across Europe, including at other camps. 

Jordan wants to know more about what happened at the concentration and extermination camp, and so begins his own journey of discovery - meeting survivors here in the UK and journeying to Poland to walk in the footsteps of those who lived and died there. 

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)

 

Event of the week/month


Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January, and marks the liberation day of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, in 1945.

In the years since, this date has become internationally recognised as the day we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions of other innocents killed under the Nazi regime. We also take time to remember the lives lost in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.

(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


Making neuroscience more accessible: childhood trauma, the brain and mental health

Over the last decade, scientists have been documenting changes to children’s threat, memory and emotion regulation systems brought about by their experience of abuse and neglect.

Research has shown us that changes to the brain associated with mental health vulnerability can be measured before a child shows a diagnosable problem.

By learning more about how reward is affected by abuse and neglect, and how to measure those changes, we will be in a better position to develop preventative help to reduce the likelihood of mental health problems emerging.

The ongoing research aims to develop reliable tasks for an early screening tool to predict vulnerability to later mental health problems.

(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)


Cafcass emphasises the importance of explaining decision making to children in new animated film: Video

Understanding what is happening in family proceedings is an important part of promoting and enabling children’s wellbeing and safety. This has been a developing priority for the organisation for some five years now and aligns closely with Cafcass’ strategic ambition to provide all children, young people and their families with an exceptional experience, everywhere and every time they engage with the organisation. 

(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)

 

Age checks to protect children online

·        Ofcom publishes industry guidance on effective age checks to prevent children from encountering online porn and protect them from other harmful content

·        Pornography services must introduce age checks by July 2025 at latest

·        Enforcement programme opening to monitor industry compliance

Today’s decisions are the next step in Ofcom implementing the Online Safety Act and creating a safer life online for people in the UK, particularly children. It follows tough industry standards, announced last month, to tackle illegal content online, and comes ahead of broader protection of children measures which will launch in the Spring.

Robust age checks are a cornerstone of the Online Safety Act. It requires services which allow pornography or certain other types of harmful content to introduce ‘age assurance’ to ensure that children are not normally able to encounter it.[1] Age assurance methods – which include age verification, age estimation or a combination of both – must be ‘highly effective’ at correctly determining whether a particular user is a child.

(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)

 

Handbook of Children and Screens: Resource

·        Describes the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial impacts of digital technology on infants, children, and adolescents

·        Explores how media influences individuals as well as relationships, family, culture, and society

·        Examines the impacts of specific digital domains pertinent to youth (e.g., education technology, video gaming)

·        This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

 (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)

 

Meta tool to block nude images in teens' private messages

Meta has said it will launch, external a new safety tool to block children from receiving and discourage them from sending nude images, including in encrypted chats later this year.

The tool is likely to be optional and available to adults too on Instagram and Facebook.

It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.

They say encryption will make it harder for the firm to detect child abuse.

(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)


Catfishing: Young victims 'should have hope' issue will be dealt with

Young catfishing victims should be given hope that the issue can be dealt with, an online child protection expert has said.

It comes after a man at the centre of one of the world's largest catfishing probes admitted manslaughter after a girl he blackmailed killed herself.

Alexander McCartney, 25, from County Armagh, previously admitted 185 charges involving more than 60 child victims.

Jim Gamble said there are ways to block or prevent images from being viewed.

(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


How to do the primary survey (DR ABC)

The primary survey is a quick way to find out how to treat any life-threatening conditions a casualty may have in order of priority. We can use DRABC to do this: Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing and Circulation.

(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)

 

How to fall in love with exercise

Exercise boosts your self-esteem, mood, energy, and reduces your chances of heart disease, cancer and depression. It's not always as easy as lacing up your trainers and hitting the treadmill, though. If you're starting from scratch, working out can seem intimidating. So how can you fall in love with exercise?

 (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)

 

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.

 (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)

 

Psychosocial work risks and suicide: we look at the common myths

Despite being viewed culturally as a time of celebration, the prospect of a New Year brings with it immense challenges for some. So, how can OSH professionals spot the signs if employees are struggling? Suicide prevention requires us to first consider contributing factors, and to dispel some common myths.

Suicide is complex. Often a combination of factors leads to someone wanting to take their own life, rather than a single event or issue. Research has, however, identified a number of key risk factors.

(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)

 

Wider Curriculum

 

Positive Noticing

Positive noticing is simple, practical and highly effective. It is an everyday relational strategy; any time, any place. Positive noticing is different to being nice. It is deliberate and it will build your child’s confidence, resilience and self-belief.

Think about how many times you have positively noticed your children in the last 7 days. I don’t mean just saying 'thank you' or ‘that’s great’. I mean taking a moment to reflect their positive behaviour back to them. To notice something that matters to them. Calmly, quietly and privately

 (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)

 

100 Words Every Adult Should Know

As an adult English speaker, you’re expected to have an extensive vocabulary that includes some words that are seldom used in conversational English. You should also be striving to improve your vocabulary. While all these lists are somewhat subjective, they’re a good way to see how good your current vocabulary happens to be, and work on some words you may not know. See how you measure up to this list of 100 intermediate to advanced vocabulary words every adult should know.

(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)

 

Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust

It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million people murdered there.

The remaining survivors are now mostly in their 90s and this might be the last year any of them can attend.

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim.

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.

(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)

 

Sustainability


Project Everyone: 10 Years of Impact

Celebrating a decade of impact, this report highlights the journey of Project Everyone in championing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). From innovative campaigns to transformative partnerships, the report showcases how creativity and collaboration have driven progress for people and the planet. Explore the milestones and insights, as we look towards 2030 and beyond.

 (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)

 

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. 20 mins)

 

An Idiot’s guide to change the world- Climate: 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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