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With mobile wallets and contactless technology soaring in popularity even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of cash was beginning to dwindle, and its dominance began to wane worldwide. Now, the pandemic has accelerated the global transition toward a cashless economy, with question marks hanging over the safety of its physical usage.

The hair, beauty and fitness industries are among those to have suffered the greatest hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the knock-on effect of the sector’s woes is being felt by training providers who specialise in upskilling individuals to work within these industries. One such provider in Greater Manchester’s Vita Skills, a leading specialist in delivering first class training courses for the beauty, children and youth work, and fitness industries.

Intellectual property laws are a set of regulations that by necessity are required to continuously adapt in order to remain up to date with technical and legal developments. For many years, the UK has been at the forefront of the latest developments in such laws, a position which can come as a significant benefit. So much so in fact that Williams Powell, a legal services firm which obtains intellectual property rights on behalf of clients, has urged ministers to maintain the UK’s position in this respect in the future.

Confederate general Albert S. Johnston once said that morale is “faith in the man at the top”. As much as Richard Dorney, founder and director of Strongmind Resiliency Training, may align with that viewpoint, he considers faith in the leader to be just one of four aspects of morale as a whole that can be applied at a national level.

Our latest leadership roundup brings news of a raft of awards for a Hartlepool-based nursery, discounted fees for parents in North London, an environmentalism push in Frome, and opposition to the Internal Market Bill in Scotland.

Founded in 1996 from a small office in southwest London, Mercanta The Coffee Hunters has grown into a business that sources a huge variety of outstanding coffees from 20 different producing countries.

Our latest leadership roundup brings news of Dr Kathy Alexander’s push for reform of the Solicitors Regulation authority, high praise for a gas and heating specialist, and a new way to receive online trauma risk management in the Covid era.

In our latest series of leadership quotations, we hear from Ewen Stevenson on banks charging customers for basic services, from Rishi Sunak on the government’s plans for the North, from Emma Marshall on the bureaucracy facing accountancy firms, from Ghulam Mustafa on the regulation burden in the property sector, and from Marius Foster on the effects of the government’s decision to ban agency fees.

During a time of crisis, many leaders within all walks of life are forced to inspire confidence within their colleagues and become beacons of motivation and reassurance. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic which has ravaged the global business landscape, this has been seen across not solely industry but also within communities and governments alike. Appearing on the Leaders Council podcast, David Park, a partner at chartered accountancy firm Haines Watts, discussed why leaders are required to inspire confidence every single day that they go to work and the impact that this has on the people around them.

Our latest leadership roundup shines the spotlight on one of the UK’s super hospitals, outlines the safety measures put in place by a training specialist, reveals the CQC’s rating for a care provider, and announces two new deals for a leading software firm.

In our latest series of leadership quotations, we hear from Jake Berry on the Northern Research Group, Nadmi Zahawi on the government’s dilemma, Claire Duggins on raising money without raising latex, Mahadevan Ruban on applying knowledge, Richard Lee on the 2008/9 crash and William Hague on Rashford-gate.

ETD host international conference, McClure Solicitors urge law firms to take action, OMS issue advice to construction companies

In our latest series of leadership quotations, we hear from the prime minister and the shadow education secretary on free school meals, from Dominique Pennington on adult social care, from David Richardson on the need for businesses to reinvent themselves, and from Paul Knight on the future of the seafood industry.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens.