It’s Allergy Awareness Week in the UK this week (21st-27th April), with Allergy UK aiming to “highlight the experiences of people living with allergies and raise awareness of allergy and its impact.” The leading allergy charity is using Allergy Awareness Week 2025 as a springboard to launch its new campaign, ‘I Wish I Knew...
Many firms not prepared to make adjustments for neurodivergent staff
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has raised concerns that many employers are not “fully prepared” to make reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent employees. IOSH conducted an online poll to mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week last month. It asked it’s followers on LinkedIn about the ability and willingness of businesses to make reasonable adjustments...
April is World Autism Acceptance Month
April is World Autism Acceptance Month, with Wednesday 2nd April kickstarting a month of celebration and awareness-raising with World Autism Awareness Day. The global campaign aims to “raise awareness, foster acceptance and create a society where autistic people are supported, understood and empowered.” In the UK, the National Autistic Society wants to change attitudes...
Join Skills for Care in Celebrating Social Care this April
This April Skills for Care are Celebrating Social Care and recognising the dedication, compassion and hard work of the sector. The #CelebratingSocialCare campaign is now in its fourth year, after being launched for the first time by Skills for Care in April 2022. The workforce development charity says the annual campaign celebrates the amazing...
FRT course named one of Top 10 Courses for Healthcare by findcourses.co.uk
First Response Training’s course named one of Top 10 Courses for Healthcare by findcourses.co.uk Our Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism (Tier 2) course was named one of findcourses.co.uk’s Top 10 Professional Training Courses in Healthcare. findcourses helps learners connect to the right course provider for their best-fit education. For more...
Government pledges £500m for preventive family services
Councils in England are to be given over £500 million in funding to help them restore preventive family and parenting support services. The Department for Education said the funding would help ensure that the most vulnerable children in England are “prevented from falling through the cracks,” and formed part of its plan for change...
For every day of school missed, pupils lose £750 in future earnings
A new government report has looked at the impact of school absences on academic achievement and future prospects, including lifetime earnings. The report from the Department for Education, published 14th March, estimated the monetary impact of one missed school day in state-funded secondary schools. It found that an additional school absence for the typical...
1 in 6 adults fail to identify signs of childhood emotional abuse
A recent survey found that most adults in the UK believe that childhood emotional abuse can have a lasting impact, affecting people well into adulthood. But, despite acknowledging the seriousness of childhood emotional abuse, 1 in 6 adults could not correctly identify the signs. The YouGov survey, commissioned by the NSPCC, found that a...
Police record more than 100 child sexual abuse image crimes a day
It has been revealed that police forces record an average of more than 100 child sexual abuse image offences each day. Data recently released by the Home Office shows that police forces across England and Wales recorded a total of 38,685 child sexual abuse image offences in the year from 1st April 2023 –...
Overcoming health and safety barriers for women
International Women’s Day 2025 was observed on Saturday 8th March, with people around the world amplifying the conversation about women’s equality and working to #AccelerateAction. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) used the global awareness day to reflect on and highlight the challenges that women still face in the field of workplace...
Lead with love this Stress Awareness Month
April is Stress Awareness Month in the UK, and the theme for 2025 is #LeadWithLove. The annual awareness campaign, observed every April since 1992, aims to increase public awareness of the causes of stress and effective measures to reduce it. The Stress Management Society is at the forefront of this campaign, setting the focus...
Five years on from Covid, IOSH calls for pandemic planning
Five years on from the outbreak of Covid-19, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called for pandemic planning, prevention and preparedness to be prioritised. It’s been five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on 11th March 2020. Next Wednesday, 26th March, will also mark five...
Firm fined £1 million after workers suffered serious injuries
A wood manufacturing firm has been fined more than £1 million after two of its workers suffered “very serious injuries” in separate incidents. West Fraser (Europe) Ltd, formerly known as Norbord, is a multi-national manufacturer of wood-based products. They appeared at Stirling Sheriff Court in February to plead guilty to breaching health and safety...
Government announces abolition of NHS England
In a surprise move last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that his government are abolishing NHS England in a bid to cut bureaucracy and save money. The Prime Minister said his plan to abolish NHS England would bring the health service back into government control, save hundreds of millions of pounds every...
New framework launched to reduce health inequalities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a new framework to help reduce health inequalities. The health and care watchdog worked in partnership with National Voices and the Point of Care Foundation to develop a self-assessment and improvement framework to help Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) address health inequalities. Integrated care systems (ICSs) are local...