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Key representatives from across the cleaning and hygiene and public health sectors came together for a high-level meeting to discuss the recent report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Cleaning and Hygiene Industry. Twenty industry experts joined the roundtable meeting in London to discuss the findings of the inquiry, entitled Embedding Effective Hygiene …

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The British Cleaning Council has paid tribute to one of its co-founders who died earlier this year, aged 82. Terence King and two industry colleagues set up the British Cleaning Council (BCC) in 1982 after hearing the Master of the Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC) tell an audience during a speech that he felt …

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The British Cleaning Council and members write monthly columns for both Cleaning and Maintenance and Tomorrow’s Cleaning. You can read recent columns below. To read the columns as they originally appeared, please visit https://cleaningmag.com/columnists and https://www.tomorrowscleaning.com/back-issues APPG report sets the tone for 2023 By Jim Melvin, Chairman of the British Cleaning Council (BCC). (This article …

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The Federation of Window Cleaners (FWC) is inviting entries for its prestigious biennial national awards. The deadline for submissions to Window Cleaning Company of the Year 2023 and Window Cleaner (Employee) of the Year 2023 is 20 February next year. The winners will receive an engraved trophy, framed certificate and £100 gift voucher and will …

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A new report by MPs into the role of cleaning and hygiene during the Covid-19 pandemic has called for the introduction of minimum standards for hand and other hygiene infrastructure and cleaning of venues to help make sure the nation is better prepared for any future public health emergency. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for …

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The Tidy Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) came together recently to discuss the issue and explore how we can make the summer of 2022 a historical anomaly rather than an annual disaster. Over the summer there were more than 700 wildfires across the UK which, collectively, burned 77 sq miles of land that will take …

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