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Cloud unified communications specialist Telavox has announced an exciting new partnership with Surrey-based Amalfi Technologies.

Writing for The Leaders Council, director Inga Neaves reflects on the use of exams as a standard measure of a student’s ability, and how the Covid-19 pandemic presents UK leaders with an opportunity to make radical changes and re-evaluate the fundamental systems and institutions for the benefit of future generations.

The past week has seen leaders across the world juggling problems at home and abroad. We hear what a selection that have been in the news have to say.

Established early last year, the new Joint Unit for Waste Crime [JUWC] has hailed a successful first year of operations cracking down on illegal waste activity, while one foodservice contractor has brought its own zero waste solution to the UK market as part of its mission to help the planet.

SMEs are to be aided in paying back loans that have been state-backed in a bid to ease the pressures on business owners that are still operating under current restrictions.

The Confederation of British Industry [CBI] has called on the government to work with businesses to publish a roadmap out of the latest Covid-19 lockdown in England.

As pubs and restaurants across the country are still closed under strict lockdown measures, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) have today released the quantity of beer that has been thrown away across the sector. Up to 87 million pints of beer have gone to waste and at an average price of £3.81 in a pub that totals £331 million in lost revenue that the sector has been forced to destroy as the third national lockdown continues.

Energy minister Anne-Marie Trevalyan has announced £11 million in government funding for the latest round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF). The hope is that this will help talented energy entrepreneurs turn their ideas into real products and services. But Matthew Fleming-Duffy, director of Cherry Mortgage and Finance, has warned that good intent does not always lead to tangible action.

According to a survey of businesses attending the virtual Kent and Medway Business Summit, locally based firms are looking to the future with confidence despite the double-pronged impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.

With the current extension of the furlough scheme set to end in April 2021 and with ‘no clear roadmap’ yet released for businesses to start trading at full capacity. The British Chamber of Commerce and TUC have urged the treasury to announce another extension to the scheme.

In our latest leadership round-up, we bring news of the government’s new incentive which allows employers to apply for a £1,000 cash boost for every new trainee taken on by their business, up to a maximum of ten. Meanwhile, Sport4Kids has announced the launch of the Beta version of its new app, and Luton Town Football Club brought in two new players on the UK’s deadline day for transfers between clubs earlier this week.

The UK today launched the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue, which will bring together key countries exporting agricultural products and the countries consuming these products to discuss how to make this process greener and more sustainable.

Film investment company Red Rock Entertainment has announced that it has been certified as a carbon neutral plus organisation by licensor Carbon Footprint Ltd.

World leading early years training and education provider Norland College and the Transforming Autism Project [TAP] have announced a collaborative research project toward developing a therapeutic framework and a monitoring and evaluation system for TAP’s new Family Services offering.