Workshop programme is set to help salons prepare for pensions auto-enrolment

Workshop programme is set to help salons prepare for pensions auto-enrolment

3 June 2014

Next month [July] will see the NHBF holding the first of what it hopes will become a nationwide programme of advice workshops explaining to salons...

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Employers are urged to ‘have your say’, as new trailblazer apprenticeship standards are launched

Employers are urged to ‘have your say’, as new trailblazer apprenticeship standards are launched

16 May 2014

Hairdressers, barbers, nail technicians, beauty and spa therapists are being urged to get involved and express their views about the industry’s vision for new-look employer-led...

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Unmanned sunbeds to be banned in England

Unmanned sunbeds to be banned in England

14 May 2014

In response to calls by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin for coin-operated, unmanned sunbeds to be banned in England, NHBF president Paul Curry...

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Could you be the NHBF’s Photographic Stylist of the Year 2014?

Could you be the NHBF’s Photographic Stylist of the Year 2014?

13 May 2014

Are you interested in hair, photography and the arts? Are you keen to showcase your skills? Then the NHBF’s new Photographic Stylist of the Year...

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Apprenticeship funding reforms are ‘unworkable’, warn salons - Newsletter

Apprenticeship funding reforms are ‘unworkable’, warn salons - Newsletter

6 May 2014

The NHBF has expressed its strong opposition to government plans to change the way apprenticeships are funded, including forcing small businesses that take on apprentices...

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Business rates need proper reform, says NHBF - Newsletter

Business rates need proper reform, says NHBF - Newsletter

6 May 2014

The NHBF has expressed dismay at the narrowness of a government discussion paper designed to open debate around the reform of business rates – but is...

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Developing the Trailblazer Apprenticeship standards for hair and beauty - next steps

Developing the Trailblazer Apprenticeship standards for hair and beauty - next steps

29 April 2014

Trailblazers are employer-led groups responsible for developing new style Apprenticeship standards for delivery from May 2015.

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Apprenticeship funding reforms are 'unworkable', warns NHBF

Apprenticeship funding reforms are 'unworkable', warns NHBF

24 April 2014

Hairdressing salons have expressed deep concern about proposed changes to the funding of apprenticeships and warn they are unworkable as they stand.

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Business rates need proper reform, not half-hearted tinkering at the edges, warns NHBF

Business rates need proper reform, not half-hearted tinkering at the edges, warns NHBF

24 April 2014

The NHBF has expressed dismay at the narrowness of a government discussion paper designed to open debate around the reform of business rates.

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