Gold all the way for UK Cleaning team
October 30th 2008 Congratulations to the UK team at EuroSkills, the vocational skills competition. At the event held in Rotterdam last month all the team won gold with every single member winning their category. Gold medals were awarded for Cleaning Manager, Supervisor and Operatives, and the UK also won the Team gold. Cleaning Matters spoke to Mary Schramm after the results came out. "It was amazing. The team were ecstatic. We thought we'd do it but you never know until the last moment."
Schramm believes that the competition is fantastic for encouraging skills in young people. "We've put cleaning on the map by showing we're the best in Europe!" Shramm says the result should be good for the UK cleaning industry and hopes it will have a knock-on effect. "Our gold medals show that cleaning is a valuable skill, and not just anyone can do it."
The UK team was Mitie North employees Kirsty Steel (21) Cleaning Manager and Craig Robinson (20) Cleaning Operative, and Principle's employees Fabio Silva (22) Cleaning Supervisor and Sandro Nobrega (26) Cleaning Operative. The team were trained by Merton College using BICSc training methods.
For the full in-depth article on the team see this month's issue of Cleaning Matters.
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