Grantham Additional Needs Fellowship awarded prestigious Unicef award
Grantham Additional Needs Fellowship have been awarded a prestigious Silver Rights Respecting School Award by Unicef UK.
Unicef is the worldâs leading organisation working for children and their rights. The award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting childrenâs rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school.
Silver is given to schools that make excellent progress towards embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into its ethos and curriculum.
UNICEF silver award. (44328730)
Julia Kay, teacher and Unicef lead for GANF said: âWe are delighted that GANF has met the standard for Unicef UKâs Rights Respecting Schools Award. We had previously been awarded bronze status in recognition of the awareness raised within our curriculum and ethos as being a âRights Respecting Schoolâ.
The maternity service at NHS Borders has been awarded a gold award through Unicef s Baby Friendly Initiative. Photo: Sandra Seitamaa/Unsplash THE maternity service at NHS Borders has struck gold by achieving the top award in Unicef UK s Baby Friendly Initiative. The accreditation scheme helps health services provide safe spaces for new parents to breastfeed and build relationships with their babies. The initiative was introduced in the UK in 1994, and 91 per cent of maternity units in the UK are working towards their accreditation. In a video posted on NHS Borders’ Facebook page, Ida Hassing, the health board s lead infant feeding advisor, said: “I’m absolutely delighted to share with you that our maternity service has received the Unicef Baby Friendly gold award.”
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UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile
The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.
The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with financial support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The stockpile will allow countries, with the support of humanitarian organizations, to contain future Ebola epidemics by ensuring timely access to vaccines for populations at risk during outbreaks.
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Douglas Alexander, the former chair of Unicef UK who stood down after accusations of bullying, has been cleared of wrongdoing in an independent review.
The review, by the international law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK, found claims of bullying and improper behaviour were unsubstantiated and there was no evidence.
Claims by the former executive director of Unicef UK, Sacha Deshmukh, who quit his role in September alleging he had been bullied by Alexander, were found not to be substantiated.
“There is no evidence, apart from Sacha Deshmukh’s account, that indicated there was bullying behaviour by Douglas Alexander towards Sacha Deshmukh,” the report said.