Monday News Issue 172- 28th April 2025
- Matthew Paminter
- 3 hours ago
- 8 min read
"Do one thing everyday that scares you"
Events this week:
April 28th- World Health and Safety at Work Day 2025
April 28th- May 4th- MS Awareness Week 2025
April 30th- Stop Food Waste Day 2025
May 1st- May 31st- Make May Purple 2025
May 1st- May 31st- Skin Cancer Awareness Month 2025
Legislation/Regulation of the week
COSHH
COSHH is the law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health and includes nanomaterials. You can prevent or reduce workers' exposure to hazardous substances by: finding out what the health hazards are; deciding how to prevent harm to health (risk assessment);
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Videos of the week
The Antidepressant Story
In the UK, around one in seven now take an antidepressant. Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions. When the current generation of drugs was launched 35 years ago, they promised a safe and effective treatment, free from the side effects of older medicines. But have they lived up to those claims?
While many people say they have benefited from taking them, Panorama reveals evidence of some companies trying to conceal concerns about their drugs, following patients who have suffered serious side effects as they continue their fight to be heard
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Event of the week/month
Make May Purple 2025
May is Action on Stroke Month 2025, a time to unite globally in the fight against stroke. This campaign focuses on raising awareness about the prevention and treatment of strokes, supporting stroke survivors, and educating the public on the impact of this serious medical condition.
Action on Stroke Month is an annual event dedicated to increasing public awareness about the signs and symptoms of stroke, the importance of timely medical response, and the long-term care and support needed for survivors. The event also emphasizes research and advocacy to improve stroke care and prevention.
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Safeguarding & ED & I
Children’s wellbeing and technology
UNESCO has published its Global Education Monitoring report on technology in education around the world. Findings include: technology can help disadvantaged learners and increase accessibility; there are safeguarding and welfare concerns such as cyberbullying; and children and young people using digital technology excessively puts their physical and mental health at risk. Recommendations include: education systems should remain child-focused and use digital technologies to support education and not to substitute human interaction; and there needs to be a distinction between adults and children around personal data so that children’s rights are safeguarded.
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Coercive control
NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on coercive control highlighting its impact on the safety, behaviour, and wellbeing of children. The briefing collates data from contacts to the NSPCC Helpline and Childline in 2022/23. Findings from 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 show 4,412 NSPCC Helpline contacts from adults and 1,096 Childline counselling sessions with children and young people whose main concerns were domestic abuse. Contacts included experiences of: threats and coercion; continual emotional mistreatment; and economic and financial abuse.
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Managing Digital Boundaries - enabling young people to build digital resilience for themselves
In our latest article, we share some ideas that teachers and parents can use to help their children understand the importance of managing digital boundaries.
This includes FREE downloadable worksheets! Managing digital boundaries is critical for maintaining privacy, security, and well-being in the digital age.
By providing activities that encourage critical thinking and reflection, you can help children develop skills to navigate the complex landscape of online interactions effective
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Youth Violence- Podcast
As a youth worker I used to regularly deliver workshops using UK rap and drill music to engage with young people at risk of exclusion and violence. This ranged from printing out lyrics to dissect with groups of secondary school students, to holding recording studio sessions in youth clubs, to chairing philosophical debates and sparking creative writing exercises in prisons.
It was rewarding because music opens up a type of honest, creative and critical conversation that is otherwise difficult to achieve with young people, especially those hiding behind the mask of bravado. But it was challenging because of the risks of provocation that now come with releasing music onto social media.
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Health & Safety
Health & Safety Risks Of E-Bikes – What Employers Need To Know
Many businesses are implementing schemes to improve sustainability. People have started to utilise e-bikes and e-scooters to get around towns and cities more efficiently, instead of using their cars to get from A to B.
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Two years to prepare counter-terrorism plans as Martyn’s Law receives Royal Assent
Employers, venue owners and event organisers across the UK have at least 24 months to improve their protective security and organisational preparedness before the legislation comes into force.
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act, also known as Martyn’s Law, has received Royal Assent placing a legal duty on those responsible for certain premises and events to consider how they would respond to a terrorist attack.
In addition, employers, venue owners and event organisers at certain larger premises and events are now required to consider appropriate steps to reduce the location’s vulnerability to terrorist attacks.
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How alcohol addiction starts
Alcohol addiction is a serious global problem, and yet the fine line between “casual” drinking and addiction is not always easy to spot. Social gatherings, celebrations and even nightly dinners often involve a beer or a glass of wine, and while for many, this does not pose a serious problem, alcohol’s deeply ingrained role in our lives can mask the symptoms of alcohol abuse. When this happens, the subtle yet insidious descent into addiction goes unnoticed, preventing the chance of early intervention.
This blog will explore how alcohol addiction starts, shedding light on its physiological, psychological and environmental underpinnings and how prevention, intervention and professional treatment can help address the issue.
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Sepsis- Warning Signs
Sepsis is a medical emergency but early treatment in hospital saves lives. If you suspect sepsis - obtain medical help immediately.
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Wider Curriculum
What to Know About the U.K. Supreme Court Transgender Women Ruling
The U.K. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that transgender women do not fall under the legal category of “women” in their equality legislation, adding to the mounting rollback of protections for trans people across the globe.
The court's decision clarified that the term “sex” in Britain’s 2010 Equality Act only applies to “biological women” or “biological sex.” Such exclusion of transgender women from the Equality Act is set to impact transgender women’s access to women-only services and spaces, including charities, sports, hospitals, and more.
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Beyond the grape: uncorking the health facts about resveratrol
Red grapes have a secret weapon that protects them from disease - resveratrol. Could it do the same for you? Found mostly in the skin of red grapes, this natural compound is hailed by some as holding the key to good health. But is it really worth the excitement?
Resveratrol is a polyphenol - a naturally occurring compound - that is found in the skin and seeds of grapes. Other natural resveratrol sources include blueberries, peanuts, plums, apples, raspberries and products derived from these foods, such as wine. Red grapes usually have between 3-10 times more resveratrol than white grapes.
https://patient.info/news-and-features/beyond-the-grape-uncorking-the-health-facts-about-resveratrol
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Social work ‘needs push’ to embed anti-discriminatory practice, say post-qualifying standards authors
Leaders say a focus on social work values was why anti-discrimination was the first of six standards set out in proposed framework for children's practitioners in statutory roles
Social work needs to be “pushed further” to embed anti-discriminatory practice within children’s services, say the authors of proposed post-qualifying standards (PQS) for newcomers to the profession.
Members of the expert writing group that drew up the PQS explained why anti-discriminatory practice was the first of the proposed six standards, in a webinar on the Department for Education (DfE) proposals that took place earlier this month.
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Sustainability
The images showing 50 years of change on Earth
The "Blue Marble" was the first photograph of the whole Earth and the only one ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.
"I'll tell you," said astronaut Harrison Schmitt as the Apollo 17 hurtled towards the Moon, "if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it's the Earth right now".
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Live sustainably: how to be a conscious consumer
Many of us are keen to make planet-friendly and ethical choices when it comes to how and what we consume. This is more important than ever given the devastating impacts consumption, and particularly overconsumption, can have on our climate, ecosystems, habitats and communities.
Governments and companies around the world need to do much more to prevent environmental and human rights violations in global supply chains. But we as individuals can also make a difference through our purchasing habits and lifestyle choices.
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An Idiot’s guide to change the world- Shaping a better world through sport
As we blow the halftime whistle we look to the sports world for some bright ideas in succeeding in the second half. Sport is an enormous industry with huge power, so how can we harness that to keep us moving towards our 2030 goal? In this episode Gail Gaillie and Loyiso Madinga meet Olympic sailor Hannah Mills, who has become an advocate for sustainability and clean oceans. She tells us how technological innovation in sport is being applied to other industries to create greener solutions. They also speak to the daughter of footballing legend Pelé, Kely Nascimento, a filmmaker and activist who works at the intersection of sport and social justice. Kely discusses how sport is a lens through which you can view any issues in society, and the investment still needed to develop women’s sport.
