Here's a selection of articles from this week's newsletter and contains information which can be counted towards the 20% off the job training.
Legislation/Regulation of the week – Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Employers must comply with the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, as amended by the Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002.
The guidance explains how to avoid, assess and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling.
Video(s) of the week – CQC in Focus
Panorama Why Kids Miss School
School’s back, but not everyone is turning up. Covid lockdowns have left a legacy of persistent absence amongst some students, and schools are under pressure to get them back through the gates. For Panorama, the BBC’s Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys, has spent three months following the lives of students struggling to return to the classroom and asks whether harsher measures, including fining parents, can work.
Together for Childhood
NSPCC Learning has released a new podcast episode on the NSPCC’s ‘Together for Childhood’ place-based approach to preventing child abuse and neglect. The episode looks at how collaboration and knowledge-sharing within local communities can help safeguard children. https://bit.ly/3SM1mg5
Early years
UNICEF has published a policy report looking into early years services and support availability in the UK. The report analyses information from data and research findings across England and identifies barriers to service provision and access. The report also introduces UNICEF’s ‘baby and toddler guarantee’ which calls on the government to ensure babies and toddlers have access to a set of core services and support in early childhood.
Social workers’ wellbeing at work lower than that of other professions in wake of Covid, finds research
Quality of working life has fallen further for social workers than for other health and care staff since start of pandemic, finds latest round of research, most of whose respondents work in Northern Ireland
