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An update from the Institute
Neil Spencer-Cook, Group MD of The British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc), gives us an update on everything keeping the institute busy as 2024 comes to a close.
As I sit down to write this, I can’t believe that it’s nearly time for the credits to roll on 2024.
In September we held another excellent conference day and evening awards ceremony at The Belfry – celebrating everything that’s great within the
industry. Congratulations to all of our worthy winners, and if you weren’t able to come along on the day or just want a reminder, go to our website for a full picture round-up of the day’s event.
Hot on the heels of our awards came the European Cleaning and Hygiene Awards, which this year were held in Lisbon, Portugal. As well as celebrating alongside all the well- deserved winners, we had a little extra celebration of our own on the evening when Kelsey Hargreaves was presented with the Rising Star Award. We’re delighted for her and couldn’t be prouder.
Then came the Clean & Tidy Home Show at ExCel in London. This is the third year we are pleased to be involved with this excellent show which promotes all things to make the home the best it can be for you. Over the two-day event, a number of the team could be seen on the Ask An Expert stage giving out the tips and tricks to ‘clean like a pro’.
The final outing for the team will be in December at the CBS Arena in Coventry, where we are delighted to be running the BICSc conference in conjunction with the Cleaning Excellence Conference.
It might sound like we’ve been constantly out and about for the past couple of months, but it has only been a small number of the team – there has also been plenty of work going on behind the scenes back at HQ.
The technical team have been busy reviewing and updating the skills within Cleaning Professional’s Skill Suite
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(CPSS) which, along with a totally revamped Licence to Practice (LTP), we are aiming to release as CPSS Version 3.1 towards the end of January 2025. This was part of a planned review to ensure our skills reflect what goes on outside of a training environment. While there may not be many noticeable changes to the content, you might notice that we’re making our training content as accessible to the widest audience possible.
What you will notice with our training is that the backgrounds for the presentations we use, both for face-to-face and online training, are far more subtle and with less distracting clutter. Any videos contained within the training will have an optional English closed caption track, and for the narrated presentations used within the virtual training suite, there will be a transcript available for any audio that is used.
Along with the training app that we released earlier in the year, our aim is to make our training as accessible to as wide an audience as possible so that we don’t exclude anybody within the industry from receiving the training they deserve, and with the number of options available to them, they can learn in a way that suits them best.
However, this will be the last review of CPSS in its current format. One of the benefits of being out and about at shows and awards ceremonies is that we get to talk to our members outside of the confines of a formal situation, and one thing that keeps coming up is how well the rolled skills format has been received, which has set the technical team off on a mission to make the whole of CPSS far more commercially viable, so watch this space in early 2026 for the release of CPSS Version 4.
There is still more going on, but I will leave that for the next update – or go look at our website for the very latest. Until next time…
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