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Pickfords
in Liverpool supports the NSPCC's Underwear Rule campaign
PICKFORDS, the UK's largest
removals and storage company, is supporting the NSPCC's Underwear
Rule campaign through its network of branches, including Pickfords
in Liverpool, by using the space on its cartons to promote an
important message for parents and carers.
The Underwear Rule is a simple way that parents can help keep their
children safe from sexual abuse by having conversations with them
without using scary words or mentioning sex. By talking 'PANTS',
parents can help their children to understand the key points of the
Underwear Rule, which are:-
Privates are private
Always remember your body belongs to you
No means no
Talk about secrets that upset you
Speak up, someone can help
The campaign has been extremely
successful to date leading to 400,000 additional parents having
conversations with their children about keeping safe from sexual
abuse.
Pickfords' Managing Director, Russell Start said:- "Pickfords
is delighted to be able to support the NSPCC by promoting the
Underwear Rule campaign in this way. We've just started using the
cartons and our removals staff are already being asked what the
Underwear Rule campaign is about, so the cartons are definitely
doing their job in getting the message out there."
NSPCC Senior Campaigns Officer, Stephen Nutt said;- "We're
extremely grateful to Pickfords for their continued support and
especially for helping us to promote the Underwear Rule campaign. By
displaying our campaign on all of its packing boxes we're able to
reach a vast number of parents and carers, right across the UK."
Pickfords has supported the NSPCC since 2010 and to date has raised
over £150,000 for the charity through staff taking part in a range
of events, from marathons to skydives. The company has also
previously donated advertising space on their packing cartons to
promote the NSPCC's helpline, which deals with calls from anyone
concerned about a child.
The NSPCC has developed a simple Underwear Rule guide for parents,
and a child-friendly version to help them talk PANTS with their
children. Guides are also available for parents and children with
learning disabilities, as well as in Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and
Russian. To find out more about the NSPCC Underwear Rule or to
download one of the guides, at:-
nspcc.org.uk/underwear. |
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Local Plan
submissions published
LIVERPOOL City Council has
published a draft list of sites required by Government suggesting
areas which could potentially be used to grow and develop the City
over the next 15 years.
It follows a widespread consultation earlier this year aimed at
identifying areas that could provide the housing, business,
industrial units, open space and infrastructure the City needs in
future.
Liverpool's Local Plan; which all local planning authorities are
legally required to produce; will set out how new housing and
employment demand, estimated at over 40,000 new homes and 300
hectares of land for industrial and commercial use can be delivered
by 2028.
Local Plans are required to objectively assess need for key land
uses and then find the sites and means of delivering on those
requirements.
The City Council will now review and consider all the responses
before publishing a draft Local Plan in summer 2015 which will
clearly show the sites being taken forward and explanations of all
of the decision making process.
The draft Local Plan will be subject to a planning inquiry by an
independent inspector in 2016/17. It is only once this process has
been completed that the Council will adopt it.
The Council received around 330 representations covering 280 sites
with a combined area of around 1,000 hectares; less than 1% of the
City. A total of 60 of the representations were about
protecting existing sites from development or change.
Councillor Malcolm Kennedy, Cabinet member for regeneration, said:-
"We are a growing City with huge ambitions and the Local Plan
will be instrumental in how our City looks, grows and develops in
the future.
It is important to stress that this is a rigorous and fully
transparent process that will take a number of years to complete,
and is one that the Government places a duty on us to go through.
Each site will be fully assessed and analysed and then be subject to
independent scrutiny during a planning inquiry to decide whether or
not its inclusion will meet the City's requirements.
The Local Plan is essential for attracting investment for the right
uses in the right places. If developers, investors and businesses
don't understand our aspirations they will go elsewhere, so this is
about making sure we are in the best position to help the City
prosper.
Conversely, without a local plan developers would have a much easier
chance of developing against our wishes as we would be less able to
demonstrate what our strategic needs and requirements are and where
they should be delivered.
This is an evolving process and the list will be adapted and changed
before we adopt it in a few years' time."
The draft list of sites will be discussed at a special meeting of
the City Council's Regeneration, Housing and Sustainability Select
Committee on 23 September 2014. You can view the full report
here and the sites on the draft list on the Liverpool City Council's website.
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