by louise-sims-bloom | Jan 22, 2018 | News
Evidence of UK Government’s intentions, at least from the NHS point of view to actively encourage local health authorities to up their game on obesity and diabetes prevention is evidenced by a number of conferences scheduled for 2018. These are delegated from health...
by louise-sims-bloom | Apr 24, 2017 | News
Sugar limits for everyday foods such as biscuits, chocolate bars and cereals have been published by public health officials in a bid to make UK children more healthy. Public Health England is challenging businesses to cut sugar by 20% by 2020, and by 5% this year. It...
by louise-sims-bloom | Apr 10, 2017 | News
Increases in the minimum wage set to take effect on 1 April 2017 are expected to directly benefit up to 2.3 million workers. But the Low Pay Commission, an independent adviser to government, which carried out an assessment of the anticipated consequences of the higher...
by louise-sims-bloom | Feb 16, 2017 | Campaigns, News
When I started my cookery school 25 years ago, my ethos of buying local, seasonal, organic (wherever possible) produce was something very new to my students. How times have changed and thankfully for the better. Back then I wrote scathing articles both in the UK and...
by louise-sims-bloom | Dec 13, 2016 | News
As reported in Personnel Today the new English language requirements for public-sector workers in customer-facing roles came into force on 21 November 2016, following the publication this week of provisions under the Immigration Act 2016. Workers must...
