Now in its 11th year, Keep Britain Tidy’s mass litter-picking campaign, the Great British Spring Clean, is back. Last year people up and down the country came together to clean up nearly half a million bags of litter and show they love where they live. The nationwide event, from 13 to 29 March, aims to […]
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The risk of modern slavery, whether in a company or in its supply chain, is one which is shared by all businesses but the risk is exponentially heightened within labour intensive service providers such as cleaning and facilities management, along with security, care industry and hospitality. In addition to the penalties imposed on service providers,
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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 Let’s get behind Thank Your Cleaner Day By David Garcia, Chair of the British Cleaning Council. (This column first
A new website launched at the Cleaning Show will transform how cleaning sector staff find out about careers development and training opportunities, and will help attract new recruits to the industry. The UK Cleaning Career Development Zone (www.ukcleaning.org.uk or scan the QR code) brings together information about industry training and development courses in one place
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The finalists for this year’s BICSc annual awards have been revealed after the organisation was inundated with an unprecedented 50 per cent increase in the number of entries. This year’s awards, which are being held on Thursday 26 September at The Belfry Hotel and Resort, saw a huge hike in the number of applications on
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The Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) surveys local authority building cleaning services regularly. Ahead of the publication of the 2024 report on the state of the market, APSE Principal Advisor Vickie Hacking summarised some of the key findings from the upcoming document. “The value and importance of building cleaning services was recognised during the
The Scotland Region of the UK Housekeepers Association (UKHA) met at the Gleddoch Hotel and Spa on 18 September and was privileged and happy to welcome guest speakers and presenters Aileen Williamson from Ac Eco, and Karen Miller, from Gordon Castle, to talk all about sustainability, the future of it in the hotel industry and
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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 Introduction from the new BCC Chair By Delia Cannings, British Cleaning Council Chair (This article was first published in Tomorrow’s
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The British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) announced the organisation’s Group CEO, Stan Atkins, will be stepping back from the Institute at the end of June 2023. Current Chief Operating Officer, Neil Spencer-Cook, who has worked at the Institute for several years, has been appointed the position of Group Managing Director and will take up
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Final proposals for an Apprenticeship Levy funded industry-wide Apprenticeship for the cleaning and hygiene sector have been submitted to the approving body. It is hoped that the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) will give the final agreement and confirmation for the Apprenticeship Standard and End Point Assessment within a couple of months although
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