Over 150 industry members have already backed the British Cleaning Council in lobbying government to put cleaning and hygiene at the heart of the national agenda as part of their ‘We Clean, We Care’ campaign. It is important that we learn lessons from the pandemic and that as a country we are better prepared for…
The APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) inquiry’s report titled ‘Embedding Effective Hygiene For A Resilient UK’ due to be released before the end of the month will list recommendations to increase disease resilience in the UK. The aim will be to build lessons on what was learnt during the peak of the pandemic, it also…
A new report by MP’s following the COVID pandemic calls for minimum cleaning standards to be introduced for venues. The standards proposed include frequency guidelines and depth of cleaning and the key message of the report is that cleaning and hygiene is to be given top priority in the future in the hope that it…
MP’s are due to begin an inquiry into the role of cleaning and hygiene throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim being that any recommendations to increase disease resilience, slow down the spread of infectious diseases and improve hygiene levels across the board are implemented. A report with these recommendations will be produced and this…
Make 2022 the year that you see the true value of your cleaning operatives as despite government recognition of the sector over the past 18 months and personnel within the sector being skilled in their own right, the industry is still perceived as being low skilled! Two years ago the British Cleaning Council raised concerns…
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-decontamination-in-non-healthcare-settings/covid-19-decontamination-in-non-healthcare-settings
USS is delighted to announce that after a recent tender submission, we will soon be working with the London Borough of Hackney. Confirmation was received this week by our Managing Director, Paul Vincent who was personally involved in submitting the tender. USS will be responsible for the annual internal and external window cleaning for 10…
The vaccine rollout is going well and the number of cases of Coronavirus is dropping in the UK and as Spring/Summer is upon us, things are slowly starting to return to normal but what does this mean for USS. New guidance recommend that in order to break the chain of infection in workplaces and public…
The cleaning and hygiene sector employs over 1.6 million people and generates turnover in excess of £54 billion yet it has taken until 2021 for the sector to have a voice in parliament but what a major development it is. The APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) consists of 53 MPs from all 6 parliamentary parties…
https://britishcleaningcouncil.org/2021/03/10/all-frontline-industry-staff-who-support-cleaning-and-hygiene-deserve-key-and-essential-worker-status-3/?fbclid=IwAR0imawppM4DvUe2frSJtMxWyVl0CU_5cp_d1U80EuqHUcsedPZ02I1WlFM