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Industry leader calls on Government to lead targeted hand hygiene campaign

A letter from former British Cleaning Council (BCC) Chairman Jim Melvin calling for the Government to take action on hand hygiene has been printed in The Times. In the letter, Melvin, who is Master of BCC member The Worshipful Company ...

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Government response to life-saving campaign ‘disappointing’ and ‘complacent’

The leader of one of the UK’s biggest industries has accused the Government of being “dismissive, arrogant and completely missing the point” for continuing to disregard a campaign that could help save thousands of lives and ease winter pressures on ...

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Cleaning Hygiene Operative Apprenticeship goes live on 1 January 2024

With the launch date for the Level 2 Cleaning Hygiene Operative Apprenticeship confirmed as 1 January 2024, an appeal has been made to cleaning sector firms to take advantage of rules on gifting funds to allow more industry apprentices to ...

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BCC says Keir Starmer’s words about cleaning staff ‘need to be backed by action’

The leader of one of the UK’s biggest and most important industries has responded to Keir Starmer’s speech at Labour Conference yesterday, in which he referred to ‘No more cleaners mocked, as they scrub mess off the walls of illegal ...

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BCC writes to PM to call for cleaning and hygiene to be made a national priority 

With a new Covid-19 variant on the rise, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call for cleaning and hygiene to be made a national priority. In her letter, BCC Chair Delia Cannings called ...

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BCC Chair appeals for more staff to back proposals to make cleaning and hygiene a national priority

The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has thanked the more than 450 industry members who have so far backed its campaign to make cleaning and hygiene a national priority. It comes as a new assessment rating the likelihood of a pandemic ...

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Delia Cannings takes over from Jim Melvin as BCC chair

The voice of the UK’s cleaning, hygiene and waste sector, the British Cleaning Council (BCC), has officially elected a new Chair and Deputy Chair at its recent Annual General Meeting. Delia Cannings, who has served as Deputy Chair of the ...

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BCC hopes Apprenticeship Standard will be approved later this year

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) is considering final proposals for an Apprenticeship-Levy funded Apprenticeship Standard for the cleaning and hygiene sector, with the expectation that it could be approved later this year. The final submission for the ...

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Government criticised by business leaders for ignoring vital cleaning and hygiene report

Business leaders have branded the Government’s lack of interest in adopting the findings of a recent Covid-19 learnings report which called for cleaning and hygiene to be made a national priority ‘arguably reckless’ and ‘inexplicable’. The trade bodies representing one ...

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Industry members urged to speak up and make cleaning and hygiene a national priority

The cleaning, hygiene and waste industry has come together to issue a call for sector staff to ‘speak up’ for their industry and help lobby MPs and sign a petition to make cleaning and hygiene a national priority. The British ...

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