Filipe Vieira is MASCED Accredited!

Congratulations to Filipe Vieira for completing the MASCED Accreditation!

“It was very helpful leaning about the signs of malignant tumours and how to communicate my concerns to clients. I had previously worried about how to approach my client when spotting something unusual and this course had helped me gain confidence in advising my clients to sell professional help which can be crucial in saving their life or preventing disfigurement or surgery when a cancer is disagreed by a medical professional in the early stage.”

Filipe Vieira would recommend the MASCED Accreditation to other industry professionals and rates the programme 5 stars.

Filipe Vieira is MASCED Accredited!

Congratulations to Filipe Vieira for completing the MASCED Accreditation!

“It was very helpful leaning about the signs of malignant tumours and how to communicate my concerns to clients. I had previously worried about how to approach my client when spotting something unusual and this course had helped me gain confidence in advising my clients to sell professional help which can be crucial in saving their life or preventing disfigurement or surgery when a cancer is disagreed by a medical professional in the early stage.”

Filipe Vieira would recommend the MASCED Accreditation to other industry professionals and rates the programme 5 stars.

Oakfield High School and College, completes Step 3 towards renewing their Sun Safe Accreditation - Assembly Plan

Skcin are pleased to announce that Oakfield High School and College, in Lancs have completed Step 3 towards renewing their Sun Safe Accreditation by conducting a whole school assembly to introduce the scheme and the importance of Sun Safety to the children.

“Hi, our whole school assembly has been delivered this morning. The learners demonstrated excellent knowledge, covering all aspects of how to stay safe in the sun. We had a short quiz included which was based on true/false facts. The learners understand why it is important to stay safe in the sun and how to look after themselves. They had to do a stem project for activity week this year, where they had to create a recycled bug house. They created their own bug from pipe cleaners and uv beads, and they had to ensure that their bug houses were effective. If the uv beads changed colour, they had to re-evaluate. We have a trophy which has been given to the winning form, and badges which have also been given out to the winning form, and excellence awards to 2nd and 3rd place. Every year has been extremely beneficial, and the message is frequently shared with all of our learners, parents, carers and community. Regards, joanne taylor, sun safe coordinator.

(Joanne Taylor - Oakfield High School and College,) 29th April 2019

Little Pickles Pre School Completes Step 1 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Sun Hats, Sunscreen & Role Models

Congratulations to Little Pickles Pre School for issuing Sun Safety Fact Sheets to all their pupils. Little Pickles Pre School has also pledged to keep sun hats and sunscreen available for all their children and to act as role models with regard to sun safety:

“The letter and fact sheet will be given to all parents when they register and updated yearly to ensure the safety of the children and remind parents of the importance of sun protection even when they think it may not be necessary.”

(Sarah Trivett - Little Pickles Pre School)

“We will always ensure we have spare sunhats and sun cream onsite at all times and that this is the correct factor and renewed yearly to ensure maximum protection.”

(Sarah Trivett - Little Pickles Pre School)

Harlow Kiddicaru Completes Step 1 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Sun Hats, Sunscreen & Role Models

Congratulations to Harlow Kiddicaru for issuing Sun Safety Fact Sheets to all their pupils. Harlow Kiddicaru has also pledged to keep sun hats and sunscreen available for all their children and to act as role models with regard to sun safety:

“letter has gone out to parents and display about us taking on sun safe has began in our centre.. ew already have a strong sun safe policy, supply sun cream , have safe zones in the garden and are looking into increasing our shade9ing this summer”

(Louise Farrow-Brookes - Harlow Kiddicaru)

“each room has a spare box of hats.. all parents will be asked once more again to provide appropriate clothing, hats, light clothing and spare clothing as the weather turns.. as a nursery this year w9ill provide sun cream 30+ for all our children”

(Louise Farrow-Brookes - Harlow Kiddicaru)

Harlow Kiddicaru is now an Official Sun Safe Nursery!

Congratulations to Harlow Kiddicaru for obtaining their Sun Safe Nursery Status & Award

“very great tool that all nurseries so take on board, we will continue to push this and review year on year and how we can set improvement's or better our communication with our parents and children about being safe in the sun”

(Louise Farrow-Brookes - Harlow Kiddicaru)

Natalie Price is MASCED Accredited!

Congratulations to Natalie Price for completing the MASCED Accreditation!

“I found the course very informative and I have learnt so much which i feel will really help me to know what to look out for when treating clients and if I see anything I have learnt today and can advise anyone at all its priceless knowledge to have. I have done many skin courses and you dont learn the in depth knowledge I have learnt today so its great to widen the spectrum for the safety of any existing and future clients.”

Natalie Price would recommend the MASCED Accreditation to other industry professionals and rates the programme 5 stars.

Tiny Toes Day Nursery Completes Step 1 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Sun Hats, Sunscreen & Role Models

Congratulations to Tiny Toes Day Nursery for issuing Sun Safety Fact Sheets to all their pupils. Tiny Toes Day Nursery has also pledged to keep sun hats and sunscreen available for all their children and to act as role models with regard to sun safety:

“Letter and Sun Safety Fact Sheet emailed to all parents and Sun Safety Fact Sheet displayed in Nursery.”

(Clair Fusco - Tiny Toes Day Nursery)

“All nursery staff have pledged to be role models to the children in our care by wearing hats and sun screen.”

(Clair Fusco - Tiny Toes Day Nursery)

Tiny Toes Day Nursery Completes Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Shade

Congratulations to Tiny Toes Day Nursery for pledging to explore options regarding providing shaded areas for children during breaks outside.

“As a nursery we are committed to provide a sun safe area and we already have a temporary shade in the roof top garden and natural shade in the downstairs garden. We will be sourcing a more permanent shade for the roof top garden in the near future.”

(Clair Fusco - Tiny Toes Day Nursery)

Redbourn House Day Nursery Completes Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Shade

Congratulations to Redbourn House Day Nursery for providing shaded areas for their pupils.

Shaded Area photo submitted by Redbourn House Day Nursery

“We have a all weather canopy area that is covered. We also have a large tree that creates a big shaded area towards the back of the garden”

(Sarah Mitchell - Redbourn House Day Nursery)

Chambersbury Primary School completes Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe School - Communication With Parents

Skcin are pleased to announce that Chambersbury Primary School in Hemel Hempstead have completed Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe School by sending home with each child: a copy of their Sun Safety Policy, a letter about the scheme and Sun Safety Information.

“Once our sun safe policy was completed the letter to parents was automatically done for us. The whole process has been extremely easy and straightforward to complete as the resources are easy to use. The booklet is a great source of information for parents about being sun safe and things to look out for and along with the policy and letter they will see that we take their childs welfare very seriously.

(Carolyn Brady - Chambersbury Primary School) 26th April 2019

Chambersbury Primary School completes Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe School - Communication With Parents

Skcin are pleased to announce that Chambersbury Primary School in Hemel Hempstead have completed Step 2 towards becoming a Sun Safe School by sending home with each child: a copy of their Sun Safety Policy, a letter about the scheme and Sun Safety Information.

“Once our sun safe policy was completed the letter to parents was automatically done for us. The whole process has been extremely easy and straightforward to complete as the resources are easy to use. The booklet is a great sourse of information for parents about being sun safe and things to look out for and along with the policy and letter they will see that we take their childs welfare very seriously.

(Carolyn Brady - Chambersbury Primary School) 26th April 2019

Vale Primary School completes Step 3 towards renewing their Sun Safe Accreditation - Assembly Plan

Skcin are pleased to announce that Vale Primary School in Vale, have completed Step 3 towards renewing their Sun Safe Accreditation by conducting a whole school assembly to introduce the scheme and the importance of Sun Safety to the children.

“Using your whole school assembly we had the whole school years r up to year 6 in the hall today for our assembly. Two members of staff dressed up to be examples one of great sun safety - t shirt, factor 30+, sun hat, sun glasses, shade and the other a bad example for the children to say what was wrong - vest top, low factor lotion, no shade, no hat just sun glasses. We took photographs of the assembly to share with our parents and to make a display to remind the children. We all sang the song "slip, slop, slap" which the children remembered from last year and enjoyed.

(Juliet Bell - Vale Primary School) 25th April 2019

Redbourn House Day Nursery Completes Step 1 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Sun Hats, Sunscreen & Role Models

Congratulations to Redbourn House Day Nursery for issuing Sun Safety Fact Sheets to all their pupils. Redbourn House Day Nursery has also pledged to keep sun hats and sunscreen available for all their children and to act as role models with regard to sun safety:

“will send this week”

(Sarah Mitchell - Redbourn House Day Nursery)

“have some- will buy more. Have all of our sun cream for each room ”

(Sarah Mitchell - Redbourn House Day Nursery)

Mumbles Day Nursery Completes Step 3 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Teaching Resources & Activities

Congratulations to Mumbles Day Nursery for reading George the Sun Safe Superstar to all their children and introducing everyone to the ‘Slip, Slap, Slop song’.Mumbles Day Nursery have also pledged to continue to regularly use the resources provided to reinforce the sun safe message to their children.

“The children enjoyed the story and listening to the song and were very involved. ”

(Eve Hawksworth - Mumbles Day Nursery)

“we will use the information and advice to give to our parents and use the information each year to educate . ”

(Eve Hawksworth - Mumbles Day Nursery)

Julie Potter is MASCED Accredited!

Congratulations to Julie Potter for completing the MASCED Accreditation!

“I believe that this is a fantastic accreditation for the hair and beauty industry in raising awareness of skin cancer and early detection not only for clients but for friends and family too.”

Julie Potter would recommend the MASCED Accreditation to other industry professionals and rates the programme 5 stars.

SKCIN CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY IN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION WITH OUR UNIQUE ACCREDITATION PROGRAMMES



Skcin launched the UK’s first ever national educational ‘Accreditation' programme many years ago now and we continue to lead the way with the subsequent development of a suite of Accreditation programmes that cover key ’at risk’ and influential target sectors with the key objective of preventing skin cancer and promoting early detection to save lives.



Our pioneering work in educational intervention is our USP, we recognised many years ago that measuring outcomes is absolutely key to offering a sustainable resource, not just a short lived ‘campaign’ that’s here today and forgotten tomorrow. It needs a direct strategic approach that has longevity



Most importantly, all our accreditation programmes are annual, requiring participants to review, refresh and reinforce year on year. 



OUR SUN SAFE SCHOOLS NATIONAL ACCREDITATION PROGRAMME IS NOW TEACHING & REACHING OVER 620,000 CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES NATIONWIDE….



Teaching children from a young age the importance of sun safety to influence behaviour for a positive, sun safe, skin cancer free future is a no-brainer. Every child in the UK goes to school and ALL schools have a duty of care to safeguard these children whilst being best placed to educate them. It’s also the perfect way to reach the parents and families of every child, engaging the wider school community in vital sun safe messaging.



With Spring finally in the air, registrations to our Sun Safe Schools Accreditation programme are ramping up and we are busy packing and despatching comprehensive free resources to every school that registers. These printed resources include; A comprehensive welcome pack and accreditation guide with copies of all educational lesson plans, activities and worksheets; stickers for all children;  books for the school library and the required number of our ’sun safety and skin cancer’ information booklets that get sent home with a bespoke letter to all parents. These resources complement the on-line accreditation programme which supports schools in its implementation



But that’s not where the support ends. Schools are a tough nut to crack and constant support is crucial. Last year our schools support service assisted schools directly with over 8k emails with teachers and parents  This puts a huge amount of strain on our time and resources, but we are committed to assisting schools in every way we can. Our schools work is all funded solely by the charity



There is a much bigger picture here though! As government calls for ‘blue-sky’ thinking when it comes to preventing skin cancer - what we offer is a strategic and robust solution and has been proposed to Government in many times via lobbying in the past with Melanoma Taskforce and ongoing work with the Department of Education and our submission to the Public Consultation on school’s curriculum content last year This tireless work goes on behind the scenes in addition to work supporting our service users.



UV awareness and skin cancer have always been regarded as a public health issue and not an educational one. The fact is that they are inextricably linked is part of the challenge we face in addition to so many other priorities placed on Government. These things take much time to implement, but Skcin is in this for the long haul. We been offering our educational solutions for six years, Australia who take the lead in this field have taken this seriously and they are 20 years ahead, so this is marathon, not sprint.





If the UK ever sort out BREXIT, maybe important issues relating to the nations future health can take the prominence in government our future generations deserve, in the meantime, we continue our work to raise awarness of skin cancer, promote early detection sun safety and engage and lobby Government and highlight our work 

For more information about our work visit www.skcin.org