Monday News Issue 184- 11th August 2025
- Matthew Paminter
- Aug 11
- 8 min read
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”
Events this week
August 11th- Bullying No Way Week 2025
August 12th- International Youth Day 2025
August 14th- Financial Awareness Day 2025
Legislation/Regulation of the week
Advertising Regulations 2024
In the UK, new regulations are being introduced to restrict the advertising of less healthy food and drink, particularly targeting childhood obesity. These restrictions will affect both television and online advertising, with a particular focus on products high in fat, sugar, or salt (HFSS). The aim is to reduce children's exposure to advertisements for less healthy food and drink, encouraging healthier eating habits
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Videos of the week
Don’t Exclude Me
With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to help the school manage their most challenging pupils. Marie previously spent ten years as the headteacher of a pupil referral unit, and her experience working with children outside of mainstream education has helped her develop techniques that can help avoid exclusions completely.
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Event of the week/month
International Youth Day 2025
The Commonwealth will observe International Youth Day on 12 August 2025 – a day when the world acknowledges the vital role that young people play as agents of change, leaders, and mobilisers in promoting development.
International Youth Day 2025 holds special significance as it commemorates 10 years since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.This agenda, which includes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is a part of the UN’s global call for coordinated action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
https://thecommonwealth.org/international-youth-day-2025#:~:text=The%20Commonwealth%20will%20observe%20International,and%20mobilisers%20in%20promoting%20development.
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Safeguarding & ED & I
Spotlight on Safeguarding: Changes to the EYFS Framework (September 2025)
From September 2025, a new version of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework will come into effect. One of the most important areas for all early years providers to be aware of is Section 3 – Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements. These updates reflect a continued focus on creating safe, nurturing environments for children, and they include several key changes that early years leaders, Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), and practitioners need to be aware of.
To help you get to grips with what’s changing and what it means in practice, we’ve created a free guidance blog that explores the safeguarding updates in detail. It’s designed to give you clear, practical information without the jargon so you can feel confident about what’s coming and how to prepare.
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Effective Supervision
Supervision is not just about being present in the room - it means being fully engaged, aware, and responsive to the needs, behaviours, and actions of all children at all times. Young children can be unpredictable and quick-moving, so our role is to ensure that we are anticipating potential risks and maintaining a safe environment at all times.
Staff should always position themselves so they have a clear view of the children, especially during outdoor play, toileting routines, and transitions between activities. Avoid standing together in groups for long conversations, as this can cause blind spots and reduce overall awareness. Remember that high-quality supervision helps prevent accidents, supports positive behaviour, and enables early intervention if a safeguarding concern arises.
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Misinformation, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories
KCSiE 2025 referred to an addition of misinformation, disinformation & conspiracy theories being a new risk to young people when it comes to online safety. Thanks to social media, we have access to vast amounts of information but with this comes the challenge of tackling fake news. If we delve deeper into fake news, you may come across misinformation and disinformation. Because videos about the news can be shared or liked so quickly on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, posts containing misinformation can easily spread.
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Navigating Online Harms Linked to AI, Misinformation & Disinformation
In today’s tech-driven learning environments, misinformation and misuse of AI are rising threats - and safeguarding leads in further education provisions must stay one step ahead.
2025 updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance place these risks squarely in the safeguarding domain. From conspiracy theories and fake news to unethical uses of generative AI, students face a digital landscape that demands critical thinking, healthy scepticism and strong protection.
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Is your provision ‘Cyber Secure’?
Colleges and further education training providers are expected to meet Cyber Security Standards to protect against cyber-attacks.
Recent data from ‘Cyber security breaches survey 2025: education institutions findings’ April 2025, found that 85% of FE providers suffered a cyber security attack in April 2024-2025. With types of risks such as phishing emails, data harvesting, malware and individuals impersonating staff or students in order to access content.
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Health & Safety
Good sleep matters: it isn't just about clocking hour
Healthy sleep isn't just about quantity, getting enough quality sleep is essential for your overall well-being - and it plays a vital role in your heart health too.We look at the research which shows how your sleep can influence your cardiovascular and metabolic health.
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How AI can give you ideas for healthy meals
AI can make dull, time-consuming tasks a breeze, and nutrition experts who understand the emerging technology are enthusiastic. But they season their enthusiasm with more than a dash of caution."These tools are really good at giving you what you ask for, as long as you know what you're asking for," says Raul Palacios, director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA.Palacios is a registered dietitian nutritionist who teaches about AI and regularly uses AI interfaces, called chatbots, for all kinds of tasks. Professionally, AI has streamlined his work with meal plans. At home, he's taken pictures of what's in his kitchen cupboards and fridge, uploaded them and asked: "Based on the ingredients I have on hand right now, what can I make for a family of four?"
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Do you really need to walk 10,000 steps a day?
Are you wearing a device like a smartwatch to track your steps? If so, the goal of 10,000 steps a day may have become a bit of an obsession. But is focusing on this number the best way to improve your health? We ask an expert whether all this counting is really doing us any good.
In the 1960s, in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics, the pedometer was first marketed as a fitness device. One Japanese company developed a product called 10,000 steps - translated into English. Decades later, the default setting on smart-watches and health apps is this magic number. But there's really no medical reasoning for its introduction.
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Wider Curriculum
Youtube raises minimum age for livestreaming to 16
As part of ongoing efforts to make online spaces safer for young people, YouTube has announced important changes to its live streaming policies that parents and professionals should be aware of.
What’s Changing?Starting on July 22nd, YouTube will require creators to be at least 16-years-old to live stream on the platform. This means that anyone under 16 will no longer be able to start or host live streams.
What about 13 to 15 year-old creators?For creators aged 13 to 15, YouTube is implementing additional safeguards. Live streams featuring these users that do not show a visibly present adult may have their live chat feature disabled. In some cases, the account might temporarily lose access to live chat or other interactive features.
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Me, Myself and AI Research
A recent report from Internet Matters, Me, Myself & AI, reveals that AI chatbots are becoming a go-to tool for children—used for everything from homework help to emotional support. Over 64% of children engage with chatbots regularly, and 35% say it feels like talking to a friend. Among vulnerable children, usage jumps to 71%, raising red flags about emotional dependency and misinformation.
While AI can be helpful, the report warns that many children trust chatbot responses without question. These tools often lack age-appropriate safeguards, and children may not understand the difference between a bot and a real person.
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What research on sexting reveals about how men and women think about consent
Sexting has become a common part of young people's romantic and sexual lives. But with digital intimacy comes new challenges, especially around consent.
Recent research reveals a gendered divide in how young people approach these issues. Women often feel they must protect themselves from image-based abuse, bearing the emotional and practical burden of preventing harm. In contrast, men tend to worry about unintentionally crossing consent boundaries, fearing they may violate someone's trust without realising it.
While both groups care deeply about consent, their concerns differ. This mismatch can lead to confusion, miscommunication, and even harm, despite good intentions.
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Sustainability
What is net zero and is the UK on track to achieve it?
Achieving "net zero" is the world's key target for fighting climate change, which is already having serious consequences for people and nature around the globe.
But the political consensus around the UK's net zero policies has collapsed, with opponents now branding them too difficult and expensive.
Net zero means balancing the amount of planet-warming "greenhouse" gases produced by human activities with the amount being actively removed from the atmosphere.
Effectively this means no longer adding to the total amount of these gases in the atmosphere to limit climate change.
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A really simple guide to climate change
Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions.
The world has been warming up quickly over the past 100 years or so. As a result, weather patterns are changing.
Between 2015 and 2024, global temperatures were on average about 1.28C above those of the late 1800s, known as pre-industrial levels, according to the European Copernicus climate service.
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