Charities and community groups are not automatically exempt from food hygiene law, but one-off events with little organisation are generally outside registration. When to register, who is responsible for a hired hall, lunch clubs, bake sales, food banks, community fridges, allergens and volunteer training.
A Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) is a legal, learning-focused review that a Safeguarding Adults Board must arrange under section 44 of the Care Act 2014 in certain cases of death or serious abuse or neglect. This guide explains the legal test, who decides, the steps, what staff should expect, how to refer, the lessons SARs repeat, other reviews, 2026 national changes and the rules in Wales and Scotland.
Safer Food, Better Business (SFBB) is the Food Standards Agency’s free food safety management pack for small caterers and retailers in England and Wales. SFBB itself is not compulsory, but you must have HACCP-based procedures. How to fill in the safe methods, daily diary and 4-weekly review, and what Scotland and Northern Ireland use instead.
Cuckooing is when criminals take over a vulnerable person’s home to deal or store drugs, store weapons or exploit them. This guide explains who is targeted, how it starts, the warning signs for care, support and housing staff, the new Crime and Policing Act 2026 offence and its status, closure orders, the Care Act safeguarding response, mental capacity and what to do.
There is no single legal interval for ladder inspections. Users do a pre-use check each working day and after any change; a competent person carries out recorded detailed visual inspections at fixed intervals, following the manufacturer’s instructions. As a guide, the Ladder Association suggests at least every 3, 6 or 12 months depending on use.
Hoarding can be a safeguarding issue: the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance treats it as a form of self-neglect, but it does not automatically need a section 42 enquiry. This guide explains hoarding disorder, when hoarding becomes a safeguarding concern, the signs, capacity and consent, why forced clear-outs fail, fire safety, multi-agency working and what care workers should do.
Contextual safeguarding is an approach to understanding and responding to harm young people experience outside their families, in peer groups, schools, neighbourhoods and online, known as extra-familial harm. This guide explains the definition and Carlene Firmin’s work at Bedfordshire and Durham, the four domains, what KCSIE 2026 and Working Together 2026 say, what schools, youth workers and transport, shop and security staff can do, the signs to look for, criticisms of the approach and a checklist.
An MLRO (money laundering reporting officer) is the nominated officer a regulated business must appoint under regulation 21(3) of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 to receive internal reports of suspicion and decide whether to make a SAR to the National Crime Agency. Duties, MLRO vs MLCO, personal liability under POCA, small firms and a checklist for new MLROs.
A low-level concern is any concern, however small, that an adult working in or on behalf of a school may have acted inconsistently with the staff code of conduct but does not meet the harm threshold. This guide explains what KCSIE 2026 says about low-level concerns: the definition and examples, the difference from an allegation, what staff should do, self-reporting, how the headteacher and DSL respond, recording and retention, references, patterns and the LADO, supply staff and contractors, colleges and other settings, and a policy checklist.
Source of funds is where the money for a specific transaction comes from; source of wealth is how the customer built up their overall wealth. The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require both for PEPs and FATF call for action countries, and risk-based checks elsewhere. Evidence by scenario, red flags, gifted deposits and record keeping.
