PRCA announces winners of its Public Affairs Awards 2018

The annual PRCA Public Affairs Awards, sponsored by DeHavilland, saw winners take away awards in 21 categories at an event which celebrated the UK’s public affairs and lobbying industry. The black-tie event brought together over 300 leading public affairs and lobbying experts at the Park Plaza Riverbank on the evening of 30th November, and was hosted by Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent for Sky News. Big winners on the night included Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, which won In-house Team of the Year; and Cicero Global, which won Consultancy of…

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Ad industry secures funding for new Apprenticeship Standard

The Standard was developed by a trailblazing group of industry employers. It is the first apprenticeship scheme of its kind to be specifically designed by the industry for the industry that can be funded by agencies through their Apprenticeship Levy and incorporated into their new starter programmes. Agencies were briefed on how they can adopt this Standard into their recruitment and retention strategies at an IPA event. The 18-month Level 3 Apprenticeship is designed to fit around the new recruits’ day jobs and incorporates the IPA’s award-winning Foundation Certificate, and…

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AnalogFolk launches first consumer campaign for Coalition for Reform in Political Advertising

AnalogFolk is proud to support the Coalition for Reform in Political Advertising in creating and launching its first consumer campaign demanding government legislation to stop lies in political advertising. The impactful creative uses language and iconography from fairy tales to make the point that fictional claims should have no place in political campaigning, and uses the tagline ‘It’s time to separate the real from the make believe’. The campaign is running across social media, online and across outdoor sites and encourages viewers to sign a petition at change.org/p/reformpoliticalads that demands…

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Boots UK partners with FareShare to tackle period poverty in Scotland

Boots UK has announced a new partnership with FareShare to support a Scottish project that offers sanitary products for women and girls on low incomes. Period poverty is a real issue in the UK. A 2018 survey by Young Scot and Scottish Government found that in the last year around one in four (26%) survey respondents at school, college or university had struggled to access sanitary products. Of those, 60% couldn’t access the product they needed, and nearly three quarters (71%) had to ask someone else for a tampon or…

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CDC Foundation Launches TINA, an Innovative Virtual Tool to Improve Cancer Patient-Provider Conversations about Infection Risk

The CDC Foundation has launched the first educational tool using virtual human technology to improve patient-provider conversations about a side effect of chemotherapy that may increase infection risk, known as neutropenia. This innovative new resource is part of the Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients (PICP) program, which has been led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation since 2009, with financial support from Amgen. Patient-clinician communication plays an important role in optimizing health outcomes, and is especially important in the cancer setting due to…

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