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According to a survey of businesses attending the virtual Kent and Medway Business Summit, locally based firms are looking to the future with confidence despite the double-pronged impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.

With the current extension of the furlough scheme set to end in April 2021 and with ‘no clear roadmap’ yet released for businesses to start trading at full capacity. The British Chamber of Commerce and TUC have urged the treasury to announce another extension to the scheme.

In our latest leadership round-up, we bring news of the government’s new incentive which allows employers to apply for a £1,000 cash boost for every new trainee taken on by their business, up to a maximum of ten. Meanwhile, Sport4Kids has announced the launch of the Beta version of its new app, and Luton Town Football Club brought in two new players on the UK’s deadline day for transfers between clubs earlier this week.

The UK today launched the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue, which will bring together key countries exporting agricultural products and the countries consuming these products to discuss how to make this process greener and more sustainable.

Film investment company Red Rock Entertainment has announced that it has been certified as a carbon neutral plus organisation by licensor Carbon Footprint Ltd.

World leading early years training and education provider Norland College and the Transforming Autism Project [TAP] have announced a collaborative research project toward developing a therapeutic framework and a monitoring and evaluation system for TAP’s new Family Services offering.

As leaders across the world continue to struggle against a tide of lockdown weary citizens looking for a return to normality, the EU is backpeddling from invoking article 16 of the Brexit Deal and a group of internet shareholders confound wallstreet we hear what our leaders have to say:

Our latest leadership round-up brings news of a Kent entrepreneur launching a new website provision service for marketers, while Steadfast Roofing welcome a new business development manager.

‘Empowerment in Health and Wellness’ is a new book which aims to bring together new perspectives on the mind-body connection in relation to stress and anxiety reduction, building motivation and inspiring people to respond to the needs of their current reality.

In today's leadership round-up we look at the advice given by Affinity as they seek to keep people safe from scams while the government seeks to safeguard youth employment.

With the early stages of 2021 set to be entirely dominated by the vaccine rollout, Wells on Wheels and Digimax Dental director Shaz Memon lays out his thoughts for the year ahead.

Michael Wood has been the CEO of Westfield Farms since 1968. In an exclusive interview with The Leaders Council, Wood discusses exactly how Covid-19 has hit a business that is doing its best to fend for itself, with no government support to fall back on.

The Covid-19 pandemic has proven a significant test to the resilience of children’s social care services in the UK. An already overburdened industry has had to take on the challenge of assisting children and young people in care who are facing long periods of heightened stress and isolation, meaning that the right support is more critical than ever before.

NSF Health Sciences and the US National Environmental Health Association [NEHA] are to co-host a virtual special session of the annual Legionella Conference, which will focus on disease prevention from waterborne pathogens during a public health crisis.