Cleaning & Hygiene


That kind of mobility doesn’t happen by accident. It requires defined training, documented standards and managers who develop people rather than just deploy them.


This is where the BICSc framework has become not just useful but essential to the training and development of the Team. The Institute’s standards provide consistent outcome criteria, recognised competencies and shared professional language. This allows a worker’s experience to travel with them. Without that infrastructure, experience stays local and skills remain invisible to the wider market.


Progression In Practice


Shauna Collins joined us as a Supervisor in November 2023. Within 18 months, she was promoted to Assistant Venue Presentation Manager at Cheltenham Racecourse. Her advice to anyone starting out is direct: “Take every opportunity to learn - those experiences are what build your potential to step up.”


conversation is shifting - from recruitment to something more fundamental: building real understanding of what this industry actually offers.


A Sector That’s Quietly Changed Shape


The nature of the work itself has shifted. Automation and robotics are appearing across large UK sites, handling consistency while creating new roles in


oversight. Sustainability is now woven


supervision into


daily adding and technical operations,


from product selection and waste reduction to resource management,


genuine


complexity to jobs once assumed to be straightforward. In specialist environments like commercial kitchens, our teams work alongside food production staff,


navigating


compliance and safety requirements that directly affect public health.


This is not the same industry it was twenty years ago. The people doing the work have always known that. It’s taking the rest of the world a while to catch up.


The Strongest Argument Is The Simplest One


Corey went to Australia on an international exchange and brought that knowledge back into the business. Alfie crossed disciplines and found a specialism he’d never


considered. Shauna


That’s not an unusual sentiment in any industry. What’s less common is having it.


the Apprenticeships, graduate


infrastructure to schemes,


act on competency


frameworks - the cleaning sector has spent years building the scaffolding that a visible career requires. The challenge now is making sure people can see it before they’ve already walked past the door.


Building Capability And Closing The Gap The UK cleaning sector faces a recognised skills gap, driven in part by perception and in part by a simple lack of awareness. Young people don’t know the industry exists in the form it does - and that’s a problem we all have a role in fixing.


Industry bodies like the Cleaning & Support Services Association are doing important work here,


engaging


directly with schools and promoting clear pathways into the sector. Figures like Jay Adderley are contributing too, supporting outreach initiatives that connect education with employment in a way that’s practical rather than promotional.


Public visibility matters as well. Programmes like BBC One’s The One Show - on which CleanEvent’s Operations Director, Jay Adderley, was featured in an interview - have brought genuine attention to the scale and structure of modern cleaning operations, reaching audiences who would never have considered the sector as an option. The


fmuk 29 was promoted within 18


months of joining. These aren’t exceptional outcomes engineered for a brochure. They’re what a structured, standards-driven environment produces when it takes development seriously.


Cleaning isn’t a starting point with no direction. It never really was. It’s an industry - our industry - that has built something worth talking about and is only now beginning to say so clearly.


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