Rupert Douglas

Matt Hancock has confirmed that legislation has been drawn up to make vaccination compulsory for care home workers that look after the most elderly or vulnerable in society. The Health Secretary stressed that ‘no decisions had been taken’ but that the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, has been tasked with looking into the issue.

Monday 22 March 2021 will see the release of the Hamilton Report, an independent inquiry into into the first minister’s handling of harassment complaints against her predecessor Alex Salmond.

In today's leadership round-up we hear from Dr Janet Rose of Norland College who will be giving a keynote speech a conference on childhood trauma alongside Magnavale who are in the process of buidling the UK's largest cold store unit.

Home Secretary, Priti Patel has written to Sir Richard Henrique, the former High Court Judge, who was asked to conduct an independent review into Operation Midland. Lord Blunkett, Chairman of The Leaders Council, joined with five other previous Home Secretaries to urge Ms Patel to open an inquiry into the operation.

Dr Pauline Stephen has become The General Teaching Council for Scotland’s first female Chief Executive and Registrar, since it was set up in 1965 as the professional body to register and regulate the teaching profession in Scotland.

Sacha Lord, Greater Manchester’s night time economy advisor, launched a legal challenge to the government’s plans to delay indoor hospitality reopening until five weeks after non-essential retail opens for trade. Lord has now been joined by Hugh Osmond, founder of Punch Taverns, in the legal fight.

Steve Woolland, Performance Coach and Director of Coaching & Training at wctd ltd, led an online session for members of The Leaders Council looking at how to influence in a virtual world. As the world of work has changed and the majority of networking, engaging with clients and leading teams is now conducted online attendees were given a chance to assess how they can still influence across a physical divide.

Business Declares and Wholegrain Digital have collaborated to release an open-source toolkit to help organisations identify, measure and reduce their digital carbon footprint. Technology has an ever-increasing role to play in everyone’s daily lives and with that comes increasing environmental impact from data storage and processing to the manufacture and disposal of physical products.

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden revealed that the UK will publish a report on Artificial Intelligence as the government looks to position the UK as global centre for the development, commercialisation and adoption of responsible AI.

In todays, Digital, Culture, Media & Sport round-up we take a look at what the government have announced over the past week. Including the launch of a new campaign to help tackle misinformation around Covid-19 vaccinations, a nationwide action plan to help protect journalist & the worlds first online safety expo.

In this week’s green round-up, we look at what the government is doing to help the UK economy bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic while looking ahead to a green future. Launching new innovation challenges, providing funding for green projects & continuing to put the COP26 at the heart of the governments messaging for the year are all positive steps to a greener future.

mGage is a company that, along with its American parent company, Vivial Inc., helps to enhance relationships between brands and their customers via mobile channels. The company have recently partnered with Oxfam GB to launch a new payment solution.

Andrew Clowes writes about his experiences of dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak as the headteacher of Hey With Zion primary school located in Oldham, Lancashire. With the nation looking forward to the easing of the national lockdown Clowes is open on the issues that headteachers have faced from dealing with the government response to the anxieties of staff. He is now looking to welcome children back to the classroom.

In today's leadership round up we hear from Olvier Tsemo, CEO of SADACCA, as he responds to the budget. The government announces an expansion to the free workplace testing scheme for companies that register before the 31st March.

Established in 1934, Russell Finex is a global leader in the manufacture of high-quality sieving and filtration solutions. Over the past month they have been recognised at the West London Business Awards, launched improvements to a popular product based on customer feedback and made strides to improve sustainable plastic recycling practices.