• 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 be supported.
    The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has announced that the new Apprenticeship Standard for the whole of the cleaning and hygiene industry will go live on the first day of the new year.
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  • Health chiefs advocate bleach as norovirus rates rise among the very young

    Norovirus is spreading rapidly in the UK among children up to four years old - and bleach-based products are being advocated to help stop the spread of the bug.Data shared by the UK Health Security Agency has revealed that the number of norovirus outbreak has been increasing steadily since week 43 of this year. And one facility - the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough - was recently forced to close three wards after its worst norovirus outbreak for four to five years."Using bleach-b

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