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UK businesses and charities are set to benefit from a free interactive guide to help their staff spot and tackle economic abuse when speaking to customers over the phone. Economic abuse, which domestic violence charity Refuge estimates 16% of adults in the UK have experienced, is when an individual’s ability to acquire, use and maintain economic resources are taken away by someone else in a coercive or controlling way. By increasing the awareness of staff...
Funded by the Welsh Government this project has been developed with the aim of increasing representation on Public Boards and Committees. Two programmes will specifically support people from a minority ethnic background or people with a disability, who are interested in obtaining a public appointment: Near Ready’ Leadership programme: For people from a minority ethnic background or people with a disability, who already have some leadership experience (e.g. a school governor) and would like to...
The Health and Safety Executive has developed a new online guide to help you quickly find and understand what your business must do to comply with health and safety law. The step-by-step guide will help you: understand what managing health and safety means find the right guidance for your workplace use the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach to manage health and safety in a way that is simple and proportionate to your risks, while still...
The Living Pension standard builds on the work of the real Living Wage by providing stability and security for workers now and in the future. It is a voluntary savings target for employers, to help workers build up a pension pot that will provide enough income to meet basic everyday needs in retirement. It is independently calculated based on the real cost of living. The standard sets out the minimum annual contribution required through an...
The Welsh Government will co-fund a third round of investment in greener and cleaner innovation through the Ford Low Carbon Vehicle Transformation Fund as part of its response to the climate emergency, Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething, announced today (12 July 2023). Set up by the Ford Motor Company in 2020, the Welsh Government-administered fund addresses strategic industrial technical challenges associated with low-carbon vehicles, including electrical energy storage, electric motors, power electronics and powertrains. Collaboration and...
How to apply for security funding to protect your place of worship against hate crime. In 2023 and 2024, the Home Office is continuing to provide protective security measures to places of worship in England and Wales under two schemes: Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme Protective Security for Mosques Scheme The schemes provide funding for places of worship and associated faith community centres that are vulnerable to hate crime. These schemes aim to...
The Ideas Marketplace is an online collaboration platform offering opportunities for innovative defence and security organisations to network and collaborate with UK government stakeholders, end users, innovators, industry and academia. The platform can be used to forge new relationships and foster collaboration between dynamic organisations of all shapes and sizes. The platform has been designed to enable collaboration with other innovators across the UK and to help organisations gain expertise and specialist support to develop...
Don't get caught out – new SARs guidance for employers The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued guidance for employers on how to respond to a subject access request (SAR) from a current or former employee. The right of access gives someone the right to request a copy of their personal information from organisations, such as details of their attendance and sickness records, personal development or HR records. Last year, over 15,000 complaints were made...
A drive to make pubs, restaurants and cafés across the UK more dementia-friendly has been launched by Scottish experts researching the impact of ageing. The University of Stirling’s internationally-renowned Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) has developed a certification scheme that will encourage pub and restaurant owners to make adaptations for people with age-related degenerative conditions. To support this, DSDC have launched a new tool with guidance and advice to help pubs and restaurants to make...