Uk Cleaning Sector Urged To Join Campaign To Make Cleaning A Priority
- March 9, 2023
The cleaning, hygiene and waste industry has come together to issue a call for sector staff to ‘speak up’ for their industry and help lobby MPs and sign a petition to make cleaning and hygiene a national priority.
The British Cleaning Council and 22 associations from across the industry are frustrated by the lack of interest from MPs (except for Chairman Nigel Mills MP) and political parties in the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Cleaning and Hygiene Industry, entitled Embedding Effective Hygiene for a Resilient UK.
The report’s recommendations, if implemented, would put cleaning and hygiene at the heart of the national agenda, say the organizers, making the nation much better prepared for future public health emergencies, like the Covid-19 pandemic.
Members of the industry are being asked to download and adapt a pre-written letter highlighting the issue to email to their local MP, and also to sign a petition, both calling on the Government to implement the report recommendations in full
People can scan a QR code to find the letter and petition and find details of their local MP on the BCC website.
Since the APPG inquiry was first established last autumn, the BCC has sought extensively to engage MPs and the Government about the report with little response so far.
The BCC is now calling for the entire industry to back the drive to promote the APPG report to the Government via the nation’s MPs.
The drive takes place under the umbrella of the BC’s We Clean, We Care campaign, which reflects the pride cleaning staff have in the vital, frontline role they perform, keeping others safe, well and healthy.
