It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”
Events this week:
March 1st- March 31st- Brain Tumour Awareness Month 2025
March 1st- March 31st – Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month 2025
March 1st- March 31st – National Nutrition Month 2025
March 3rd- March 8th- National Carers Week 2025
March 4th - March 10th- No More Week 2025
March 8th- International Women’s Day 2025
Legislation/Regulation of the week
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 is a key piece of legislation for businesses when they’re recruiting new staff members and volunteers. It was passed to help avoid businesses recruit people who are deemed unsuitable to work with children. It developed a centralised vetting process that all those who would potentially work closely with children need to go through.
(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
Navigating Modern Adolescence: Social Media & Mental Health
Our children are struggling to know how to live in today's world. Unprecedented numbers are being diagnosed with mental health disorders, medicated, or are facing a crisis of identity. For almost 100 years the Tavistock and Portman has been at the forefront of exploring young minds. This series, with exclusive access to the Trust, goes behind Tavistock's doors for the first time.
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
No More Week 2025
In a world where everyone deserves to live without fear and violence, “No More Week” stands as a powerful reminder of the collective responsibility we share in ending domestic violence and sexual assault. This week-long campaign calls on communities, organizations, and individuals to step up, speak out, and play a role in creating a safer future for all.
No More Week is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault, urging everyone to take action against these pervasive issues. The “No More” symbol, a blue circle with a vanishing point, represents the goal of ending domestic violence and sexual assault in communities worldwide.
(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
The many faces of online scams – four key deceptions targeted at children
This Safer Internet Day, we at the Digital Futures for Children centre are exploring some of the biggest threats to children’s safety, well-being and rights in the digital world. We approach the theme “Too good to be true” by exploring the multitude of ways children are manipulated and deceived online. From deceptive design tactics that nudge kids into making unintended choices to the growing risks of AI-driven manipulation, technology-facilitated sexual exploitation, and gaming-related risks, the online landscape is full of complex challenges. This blog brings together key research insights from resources from our publicly available research database to highlight these pressing issues and what they mean for children, parents, and policymakers.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2025/02/10/the-many-faces-of-online-scams-four-key-deceptions-targeted-at-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. 50 mins)
Survey for professionals on the definitions of various forms of child exploitation
The research project aims to better understand the complexities and nuances around the overlapping and sometimes unclear definitions in the field of modern slavery in the UK and how the definitions of child trafficking and various forms of child exploitation (in particular – criminal, sexual, labour and domestic servitude) impact the UK’s response to this type of crime. The research seeks to understand the application and impact of these definitions on practice, from the perspectives of young people with lived experience and the frontline professionals who support them, in order to identify best practice and develop UK policy recommendations.
https://nwgnetwork.org/survey-for-professionals-on-the-definitions-of-various-forms-of-child-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. 20 mins)
Racial disproportionality in violence affecting children and young people
Violence has devastating impacts on children and families. While children from all backgrounds can face violence, children from certain ethnic backgrounds are less safe.
The majority of children in the youth justice system, and involved in violence, are White. However, relative to their share of the population, some minority ethnic groups – and Black children in particular – are over-represented, while other groups – e.g. those from Asian backgrounds – are under-represented.
(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 100 child sexual abuse image crimes being recorded by police every day
Recently published Home Office data revealed police forces across England and Wales recorded 38,685 child sexual abuse image offences last year (2023/24), an average of more than 100 every day.
A separate Freedom of Information request2 we submitted showed that of the 7,338 offences last year where law enforcement recorded the platform used by perpetrators3 :
· Exactly half (50%) took place on Snapchat.
· A quarter took place on Meta products (11% on Instagram, 7% on Facebook and 6% on WhatsApp).
In addition, it revealed that child sexual abuse offences have reached record levels in Northern Ireland (859 crimes) and remain consistently high in Scotland (748 crimes).
(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)
Six in ten parents concerned about child financial harms
The scale of parental concern over the impact of online financial harms on children has been uncovered in our latest research for the Child Financial Harms programme.
Our report, Short changed and out of time, features results from a poll involving over 2,000 parents of children aged seven to 18.
It reveals how relevant parents believe online financial harms are to them, and how important it is that they are dealt with.
(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 exactly is risk management?
Most people are more familiar with the consequences of a health and safety failure — the incident or failure itself, post-incident investigations, analysis and corrective actions — than the preventative measures employees, supervisors and management take every day to keep workplaces healthy and safe. After all, when a hazard is identified and eliminated before causing an incident, it doesn’t make headlines. That’s a good thing, but it also means that our society tends to focus on the reactive side of health and safety.
It’s true that both reactive and proactive measures are important for a well-rounded health and safety system. This article will discuss the benefits of a proactive process: health and safety risk management.
(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)
Emotional dysregulation: what it is and how to cope
If you struggle to manage your emotions, you may have emotional dysregulation. While it’s not a recognised mental health condition, awareness around it is growing. Emotional dysregulation can stem from various causes. Here, we explore the most common reasons, why it happens, and share practical ways to help you regulate your feelings.
Emotional dysregulation is when you find it difficult to manage the intensity and length of your emotions. This may lead to dramatic mood swings, impulsive reactions, difficulty calming down, and heightened sensitivity in certain situations.
(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 deal with stress- Video
Stress is experienced in different ways and when it is extreme it can feel like it takes over your mind and body and is impossible to cope with. We provide some simple tools that can help relaxation and stress reduction.
(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
Tech & Teens: insights from 15 studies on the impact of digital technology on wellbeing
From 2020 to 2025, researchers from IRTIS at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic conducted a series of in-depth studies exploring how smartphones, social networks, and online gaming influence adolescents' psychological, social, and physical wellbeing. Through longitudinal studies, experiments, and intensive data collection via mobile phones, these studies offer unique insights into the varying effects of digital technology use.
Key findings indicate that these effects are influenced by individual characteristics such as gender, age, media use frequency, and usage patterns. The results highlight the complexity of the relationship between technology use and adolescent wellbeing, where some adolescents experience positive outcomes, and others face challenges.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/research-projects/eu-kids-online/about/eu-kids-online-v
(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)
SEND crisis: key challenges and five solutions to fix the system
A report by influential MPs concludes the special educational needs and disabilities system is failing to deliver for children and is unsustainable for councils. It puts forward proposals to address the problems.
Families in neighbouring council areas are also seeing marked differences in the quality of support received. For example, in Lambeth seven in 10 education, health and care plans (EHCPs) are written on time but in nearby Southwark the proportion completed within the time limit is less than a fifth (see below graphic).
Despite spending £10.7bn a year on special educational needs and disabilities services, the system in England is failing to meet needs to such a degree there is a risk it will create a “lost generation” of children without major reform.
That is the verdict of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its latest report on the SEND system, which it characterises as blighted by “an often chaotic and adversarial process liable to produce marked inequalities”.
(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)
5 Off-The-Job Training Activities for Early Years Apprentices
Off-the-job training is an essential element of your apprenticeship which allows you to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours that are relevant to working in the early years and childcare sector. Twinkl Private Early Years get asked lots of questions about what counts towards off-the-job training, so in this blog Twinkl shares five off-the-job training activities with you, linked to real examples in practice, to support you in completing your off-the-job training log.
(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
Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint
Tackling climate change will require world leaders to take action on a global level.
But as individuals we also contribute to planet-warming emissions. Here are some things you can do to reduce your personal impact.
(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)
World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded
The world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date.
Mountain glaciers - frozen rivers of ice – act as a freshwater resource for millions of people worldwide and lock up enough water to raise global sea-levels by 32cm (13in) if they melted entirely.
But since the turn of the century, they have lost more than 6,500 billion tonnes – or 5% – of their ice.
And the pace of melting is increasing. Over the past decade or so, glacier losses were more than a third higher than during the period 2000-2011.
(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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