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On May 11th 2022 the UK government published further information about the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, a bill that looks to reduce inequality in productivity, health, incomes and opportunity across the country. The key objectives of the bill have been defined as:  Boost productivity, pay, jobs and living standards by growing the private sector, especially…

The Department for Education published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy on the 21st of April 2022. The strategy aims to help educational organisations reduce their environmental footprint, with the objective of achieving net-zero. It identified 5 key elements in what is known as Action Area 3 – Education Estate and Digital Infrastructure, which we set…

Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire NHS Trust have just released their latest vaccination programme results, with the Trust providing over 2 million vaccines to their communities.  These results demonstrate the positive benefits of strong collaboration between the Trust and its supply chain, enabling them to provide local people with easy access to vaccinations during…

With this week marking National Careers Week 2022 Provelio caught up with Operations Director, Jeremy Sneddon, to better understand the importance of investing in employees and in the next working generation. If someone leaving school, college or university were looking to work at Provelio what type of roles and experience do you offer? We provide…

Introduction The Competition and Markets Authority has addressed the finding that “40% of green claims made by companies are misleading”. It has issued the “green claims code”, which states the 6 principles which must be upheld: Claims must be truthful and accurate Claims must be clear and unambiguous Claims must not omit or conceal important…

Cop 26 included almost all the countries in the world gathered in November 2021, for a conference in Glasgow, which focussed on climate change.  In particular, it centred around measures that must be taken to prevent temperatures rising by 1.5oC by 2030, which scientists had produced a plethora of reports explaining why this was happening. …

Background  Historically, the construction industry has suffered enormously during turbulent economic conditions. But from the outset of the pandemic the Government made it very clear that construction was one of the key industries to keep the economy moving.   The current economic climate  The industry is now flat out trying to meet demand, with consultants, contractors, trades…

Covid-19 has already exposed many of the things we do (mostly subconsciously) which we will not be able to do in the future. We need to re-train ourselves, because the majority of Covid-19 is spread via the hands.  This means that we need to: Be conscious of where our hands are – at all times.…