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Beauty with confidence: Salford leads health protection standard for local beauty industry

Salford Public Health is taking the lead by generously offering free infection control training for beauty and non-surgical aesthetic therapists in advance of upcoming licensing requirements.

The training, which attracted local beauticians, salon owners including beauty consultants from high streets brands across the UK equipped practitioners with essential health protection and infection skills. In addition, attendees earned valuable CPD points, to ensure practices meet the highest safety standards.

The UK cosmetic and personal care sector contributes £24.5 billion to the UK GDP and generating £6.8 billion in tax revenue in 2022, according to the British Beauty Council.

A consultation for a licensing scheme in England for non-surgical cosmetic procedures ended in October 2023. Procedures included within the beauty and non-surgical aesthetic therapists licensing scheme are to be RAG rated depending on risk.

Councillor John Merry, Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Adult Services, Health and Wellbeing for Salford City Council, said: "With the rising popularity of procedures such as Botox and dermal fillers, we recognise the need for a robust regulatory framework to protect consumers. However, any licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures must strike a balance between protecting the public and respecting consumer choice while building confidence in the safety of the aesthetic industry and encouraging innovation.

We want everyone in Salford to live longer, healthier, and happier lives, and therefore whole heartedly support the introduction of stronger regulations for cosmetics licensing schemes in England if this ensures practitioners hold personal and premises licenses for specified cosmetic procedures, including injections to ensuring patient safety within the thriving beauty industry.”

Councillor Mishal Saeed, Executive Support for Social Care and Mental Health, also shared: “Fantastic to see Salford Public Health stepping up to ensure high safety standards in the beauty industry. Offering free infection control training to local beauty professionals not only raises awareness but will empower practitioners to protect their users. 

The popularity of treatments like Botox and fillers is continuing to grow but are not without risk. This initiative is an essential step toward ensuring safer practices. Great to see Salford setting the standard in making consumer safety a priority.”

Due to the high interest the first training session quickly booked out, however more sessions will be made available subject to demand. The training sessions will cover essential infection control practices and guidelines for beauty and non-surgical aesthetic therapists. 

Due to the high demand more sessions will be made available. The training sessions cover essential infection control practices and guidelines for beauty and non-surgical aesthetic therapists. 

For more information, contact the Salford City Council Health Protection Team on 0161 793 3599.

Safe and Together 

September 2024 has seen the introduction of the Safe and Together model to Salford! The model is designed to help practitioners to work in a strengths-based way with domestic abuse survivors to allow them to stay together with their children, but to hold perpetrators to account for their parenting choices and to reduce their risk. The model is based on working in partnership with survivors and this fits well with the way social workers are currently working (The Family Partnership model) and is strengths based. We recognise that survivors are already putting safety plans in to protect children, and we will help them to build on this and to develop these plans. The model will allow us to strengthen good practice already being evidenced and build on the way we are currently working with families experiencing domestic abuse.

Our aim is to keep more families together with safe parents and to bring about real safety for children, by empowering practitioners to be able to challenge perpetrators to change their behaviour. The model challenges our gender bias and the way we hold mothers more accountable than fathers. We aim to work in a comprehensive, holistic, family-centred manner using this model.

25 multi agency practitioners have completed a 4-day training programme and 40 leaders have completed the one-day overview. We will continue to build on this and set up a Safe and Together Board and decide together on the best ways to embed the model across Salford.  

Read more here About the Safe & Together™ Model | Safe & Together Institute (safeandtogetherinstitute.com)

For more information about how to get help if you are experiencing domestic abuse or if you are worried about someone else, please see Salford Council |  Domestic Abuse 

If you are worried about a child who may be at risk of harm due to domestic abuse, this could be witnessing domestic abuse in the home, please see Salford City Council | Worried about a child