Monday News Issue 169- 31st March 2025
- Matthew Paminter
- Apr 1
- 7 min read
“Believe you can and you're halfway there”
Events this week:
April 1st- April 30th- Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2025
April 1st- April 30th- Active for April 2025
April 1st- April 30th- Stress Awareness Month 2025
April 2nd- World Autism Awareness Day 2025
April 2nd- April 8th- World Autism Acceptance Week 2025
April 4th- Walk to Work Day 2025
Legislation/Regulation of the week
Code Of Conduct Policy
A code of conduct is a set of internal guidelines that employees must follow while they work for you. It outlines your corporate values and commitments as a company. More specifically, it sets the standards and expectations for employee behaviour, and allows you to tailor your company culture.
(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
The Horse Boy
The Horse Boy is a heartfelt documentary that stars a father who would do anything to help his son. This documentary follows the story of the Isaacson family and their young autistic son Rowen. Rowen has a love for horses and his behavioral symptoms seem to abate when he is around them. This revelation doesn’t go unnoticed as Rowen and his family leave their Texas home to travel through Mongolia in search of shamans and nomadic horsemen who may be able to help heal Rowen.
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. 90 mins)
Event of the week/month
World Autism Awareness Day 2025
Throughout its history, the United Nations family has celebrated diversity and promoted the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities, including learning differences and developmental disabilities. In 2008, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force, reaffirming the fundamental principle of universal human rights for all. Its purpose is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. It is a vital tool to foster an inclusive and caring society for all and to ensure that all children and adults with autism can lead full and meaningful lives.
The United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared 2 April as World Autism Awareness Day (A/RES/62/139) to highlight the need to help improve the quality of life of those with autism so they can lead full and meaningful lives as an integral part of society.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day/background#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,an%20integral%20part%20of%20society.
(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
Summary of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s report on race, racism and safeguarding children
This thematic review was commissioned by England's Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel to explore how race, racism and racial bias influence how professionals identify, understand and respond to the safeguarding needs of Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children and their families.
The report’s findings and recommendations are taken from an analysis of a sample of 40 rapid reviews and 14 Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (LCSPRs) of incidents that took place between January 2022 and March 2024 and involved Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage 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)
Most UK adults believe emotional abuse in childhood can have a lasting psychological effect but one in six cannot spot the signs
The NSPCC has published a news story on spotting the signs of emotional abuse in children. Findings from a survey of over 4,000 adults across the UK show that adults struggle to identify emotional abuse and many believe that emotional abuse in childhood can have a lasting psychological effect well into adulthood.
(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)
Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today
From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compliance.
Providers of services in scope of the UK’s Online Safety Act had until yesterday (16 March) to carry out a suitable and sufficient illegal harms risk assessment – to understand how likely it is that users could encounter illegal content on their service, or, in the case of ‘user-to-user’ services, how they could be used to commit or facilitate certain criminal offences
(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)
More than 110 child sextortion attempts reported each month to UK police forces
The Guardian has published a news story reporting on the launch of the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) awareness campaign tackling online child sexual extortion or ‘sextortion’. Figures shared by the NCA found that within the first five months of 2024, police forces received an average of 117 reports of sexual extortion from under-18s each month. The article shares details of the awareness campaign and reports on an increase in digitally manipulated or AI-generated sextortion attempts.
(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)
Health & Safety
Work-related stress and how to manage it
Employers have a legal duty to protect workers from stress at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. This is the same duty you have to protect people from other health and safety risks.
HSE defines stress as 'the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on 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. 30 mins)
How to improve your sleep behaviour
Sleep is important for our well-being, and a lack of shut-eye can affect everything from performance at work to immune function. As one in five of us aren't getting enough sleep, we explore the best ways to improve sleep behaviour.
While medical disorders such as sleep apnoea or chronic insomnia may need professional investigation, for many of us our lack of sleep is lifestyle related.
According to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), sleep deprivation commonly affects regular commuters, shift workers, new parents, young people and those with active social lives.
(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)
What else is available to help older children or adults with ADHD?
In older children, there may be some benefit from psychological treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or social skills training. These techniques aim to teach your child more about why they act and react the way that they do. They also give them strategies to use to help them to improve their behaviour and daily functioning.
In adults, medication is recommended as part of a treatment programme, which should also include psychological treatment, advice on behavioural management and assistance with education and employment.
(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
‘Fantastic result’: Apprenticeship achievement rate hits 60.5%
The national apprenticeship achievement rate has jumped up to 60.5 per cent, new figures show.
It means the proportion of apprentices who successfully completed their training and assessment on time rose by 6.2 percentage points last year.
The boost moves the FE sector much closer to the government’s 67 per cent achievement rate target that it hopes to achieve by the end of 2024-25.
(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)
Download Your Apprenticeship app
If you are currently on an apprenticeship, the app can help you plan your workload, prepare for your end-point assessment (EPA), and give you access to apprenticeship guidance and support.
Use the app to:
· view details about your apprenticeship, such as your planned end date
· organise your workload by adding tasks and setting reminders
· gather evidence for your EPA by linking your tasks to the knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs) they helped you gain
· access apprenticeship guidance and support
(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
5 fashion materials you didn't realise were bad for wildlife
The fashion industry has a dark side, a lot darker than many of us realise.
It is one of the worst polluters and wreaks havoc on our environment in countries across the world, affecting human health and wildlife with dire consequences. Many fibres that are sold in well-known shops on the high street cause harm to species - and we’re not talking about the direct impact of the fur trade. Here’s five common fashion materials you might not have realised damage wildlife and ecosystems.
The grasslands of Mongolia and the herders and wildlife that live in them - species include the snow leopard, corsac fox and bobak marmot - are currently under serious threat.
(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)
Taylor Swift claims she offsets her travel carbon footprint - how does that work?
Taylor Swift has been criticised for her private plane usage, but claims to have bought double the amount of carbon credits needed to offset her flights for the Eras Tour.
Taylor Swift took a 12-hour, 5,000-mile flight this weekend from Tokyo, Japan, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to watch Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce win the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers. It was her latest private jet flight – a travel habit that has gained criticism due to the jet's inevitable release of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The pop star allegedly produced 138 tons of CO2 emissions in three months while commuting to visit Kelce, Newsweek reported.
(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)
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