Monday News Issue 178- 16th June 2025
- Matthew Paminter
- 18 minutes ago
- 9 min read
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will”
Events this week:
June 14- June 21st- Drowning Prevention Week 2025
June 16th- June 20th- #GladToCare Awareness Week 2025
June 16th- June 22nd- Children’s Hospice Week 2025
June 16th- June 22nd- Learning Disability Week 2025
June 18th- Autistic Pride Day 2025
June 19th- National Clean Air Day 2025
June 21st- Global MND Awareness Day 2025
June 21st- World Music Day 2025
Legislation/Regulation of the week
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 introduce new duties under the Fire Safety Order for building owners or managers (responsible persons).
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Videos of the week
Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution
Jamie Oliver explores the challenges and issues faced by thousands of school children who have dyslexia and are left behind in an archaic education system, and asks: what more can be done?
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Event of the week/month
Learning Disability Week 2025
Learning Disability Week in 2025 will take place from June 16th to June 22nd. The theme for the week is "Do you see me?". This theme emphasizes the importance of recognizing, valuing, and including people with learning disabilities in all aspects of life.
Learning Disability Week is an annual event led by Mencap to raise awareness about learning disabilities and celebrate the achievements of individuals with learning disabilities. The week is an opportunity to shine a light on what people with learning disabilities do, improve awareness of good health care, celebrate individual achievements, and challenge barriers they face
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Safeguarding & ED & I
Online Safety in the Early Years: Laying strong foundations
In today’s digital world, children are coming into contact with technology earlier than ever. While children in the Early Years may not be navigating the internet alone, they are often using tablets to watch videos, play games, or video call family. As practitioners, it’s important to recognise that these early interactions shape children’s understanding of the digital world, and we have a key role in helping them form safe, healthy habits from the start.
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Safeguarding in writing: Why accurate documentation matters
In safeguarding, what’s written down can be just as important as what’s seen or said. Good documentation is more than a formality - it’s a vital part of keeping children safe. Accurate, detailed records help track concerns, monitor patterns, and ensure that every child’s wellbeing is taken seriously.
When a safeguarding issue arises, well-kept records ensure everyone involved has a shared understanding. They allow professionals to respond quickly and appropriately, and provide a clear timeline of what’s happened and when. But effective safeguarding documentation isn’t just about noting incidents - it’s about being thorough, objective, and consistent.
This includes recording changes in behaviour, concerns raised by staff or parents, and any other observations that could be significant.
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Adopting a trauma-informed approach in safeguarding practice
A child’s experiences and background can influence how they react in certain situations, making it crucial to understand trauma as part of effective safeguarding practice. Encourage your team to reflect on this question: “How can we ensure we are implementing a trauma-informed approach in our safeguarding strategies?”
Trauma-informed care recognises the experiences children may have had before they enter our care, aiming to prevent re-traumatisation. By considering how we engage with and support children who have encountered adversity, we can foster safer, more supportive environments. A trauma-sensitive approach involves patience, gentleness, and mindfulness of potential triggers, all while providing children with a consistent sense of safety and stability
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Siblings of SEND & Neurodiverse Children
Supporting the siblings of a child with Special Educational Needs (SEN) or a disability is crucial. It involves creating a safe space for open communication, providing information about the sibling's needs in an age-appropriate way, and ensuring the school is well-informed about the child's needs and the sibling's feelings. It's also important to encourage siblings to choose the level of involvement they want with their brother or sister at school and to avoid using them as interpreters or caregivers.
Often in families where there are complex needs or neurodiversities, siblings can be overlooked whilst the pressures, stresses and strains of living with a sibling with needs can be very real.
Whilst siblings can often be an excellent advocate for them, they may need support or intervention themselves. There are lots of charities and local support groups who can be of help with groups or resources.
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Free practitioner toolkit to detect signs of honour-based abuse
Honour-based abuse charity Karma Nivarna have launched the first-ever FREE Honour-based abuse (HBA) Identification Tool.
This identification tool, along with the accompanying guidance, aims to support frontline professionals to identify potential indicators of honour-based abuse (HBA) and determine what support might be required. The guided questions are based on common HBA indicators and generate a score indicating the presence of HBA-related factors.
The FREE tool is available online and incorporates decades of experience from the Karma Nivarna helpline, including their Survivor Ambassador Panel, which can support professionals to ask questions aimed at identifying HBA in cases
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Health & Safety
Important Update: Chickenpox now a notifiable disease in England
Did you know that certain illnesses must be reported to local authorities to help track, manage, and prevent wider outbreaks? These are called notifiable diseases - and they’re an important part of keeping our communities safe.
From this month, chickenpox (varicella) has officially been added to the list of notifiable diseases in England. This means that when a case is identified, healthcare professionals are now required to notify their local Health Protection Team.
This update allows for quicker responses and improved monitoring - especially important in environments like early years settings and schools, where chickenpox can spread quickly among children.
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Diabetes Awareness
There are about 35,000 children and young people under the age of 19 with diabetes in the UK. Ninety six per cent have Type 1. The UK has the fourth highest population of children and young people with diabetes in Europe. Diabetes Awareness Week in the UK in 2025 will take place from June 16th to 22nd. It's an annual event organized by Diabetes UK to raise awareness and support those living with diabetes.
Supporting a child with diabetes in school involves a mix of education, communication, medical care, and emotional support.
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NHS to roll out world-first blood test for cancer
People with lung and breast cancer – two of the most common forms of cancer - will be offered a ‘revolutionary’ new blood test, which will help speed up and personalise their treatment.
Around 20,000 people with lung or breast cancer will benefit from a new "liquid biopsy" test, which can give a diagnosis up to two weeks earlier than the traditional tissue biopsy. The NHS is the first healthcare system in the world to introduce this blood test.
The test takes a blood sample to look for tiny fragments of tumour DNA, with results available within 1-2 days. If you have this test, doctors can then use this information to choose a more personalised treatment to target your specific cancer. It could also help you avoid further tests and treatments.
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Wider Curriculum
Tips to avoid online ticketing scams
With so many exciting gigs, festivals, and concerts coming up, it's easy to get caught up in the rush to secure tickets - but it’s also prime time for scammers to take advantage.
To avoid falling victim to online ticket scams, always buy from official sources like event websites or authorised ticket platforms such as Ticketmaster or Eventbrite. If you're considering resale, stick to trusted platforms that offer buyer protection.
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10 Key Employment Rights Every Employee Should Know About
As an employee, it is important to understand your rights in the workplace. By knowing your employment rights, you can better advocate for yourself and ensure that your employer is fulfilling their legal obligations. In this blog post, we will outline 10 key employment rights that all employees should know about, including those employees protected under the Equality Act 2010.
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Rise in disabled people facing homelessness in England
More than 60,000 disabled households in England faced homelessness last year, an increase of nearly 75% since 2019, official figures show.
Analysis of government data by the homelessness charity Crisis also shows the amount of social housing given to disabled people has gone down.
The numbers are likely to add to unease in the Labour Party over planned cuts to disability benefits, with one MP warning the government against going "further and faster in the wrong direction."
A government spokesperson said £1bn was being given to councils this year to "support families faster and stop people becoming homeless in the first place"
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Sustainability
How to stay safe during a storm and what to do in a power cut
The Met Office has issued multiple warnings for thunderstorms covering southern England, Wales and southern Scotland.
Some areas may see torrential downpours of 30-50 mm of rain, which could lead to flash flooding.
Hail, lightning and gusty winds could also cause problems in parts of the country.
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Weather makers: How microbes living in the clouds affect our lives
Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are discovering they play a vital role in the weather and even our health.
Clouds are our lifelong companions. Sometimes they drift overhead as wispy filigrees. On other days, they darken the sky and dump rain on us. But for all our familiarity with these veils of water vapour, they have been keeping a secret from us. Clouds are actually floating islands of life, home to trillions of organisms from thousands of species.
Along with birds and dragonflies and dandelion seeds, a vast ocean of microscopic organisms travels through the air. The French chemist Louis Pasteur was among the first scientists to recognise what scientists now call the aerobiome in 1860. He held up sterile flasks of broth and allowed floating germs to settle into them, turning the clear broth cloudy. Pasteur captured germs on the streets of Paris, in the French countryside and even on top of a glacier in the Alps. But his contemporaries balked at the idea. "The world into which you wish to take us is really too fantastic," one journalist told Pasteur at the time.
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An Idiot’s guide to change the world- Refugees: London is running out of water
Is the world running out of water? As populations grow and the climate warms, water demand is increasing. But why does no one seem to be talking about it? Opening the tap and having access to clean drinking water is something many of us take for granted while one in three people worldwide still don’t have access to it. In this, episode Gail and Loyiso discuss whether the world is running out of water. We hear from Marie-Chen, a South African doctor, and Lucy Easthope, Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard.
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