Dear students & clients,
As you are aware, the Government has eased all COVID-19 restrictions in England.
With the government guidance changing we have relaxed our below COVID-19 Policy, however we are still encouraging our students and therapists to wear face masks during treatments. Health, safety and hygiene are as always of utmost importance at LSBM, therefore our cleaning procedures in school will remain, and the use of disposable items where needed.
If a student tests positive for COVID-19 we will be encouraging them to isolate and not to attend class until they test negative, as per the current Government advice. If a student tests positive for COVID-19, please can they contact the School Administration Office on 0207 776 9766 or email admin@beauty-school.co.uk immediately.
LSBM will continue to follow the advice on close contact working, and will provide any further updates if the Government’s guidance changes.
The LSBM Team x
Please read further below to keep up with our latest updates
In school – LSBM has completed a COVID-19 risk assessment and implemented the following measures:
In LSBM Beauty salon – LSBM has completed a COVID-19 risk assessment and implemented the following measures:
UPDATES:
Latest Update: 19th July 2021
Dear students & clients,
As you are aware today, the Government have eased restrictions in England.
For LSBM students we still require students to wear face masks during practical sessions and encourage them to wear these around the building. Visors or face shields during treatments are optional if a student feels more comfortable wearing these.
Class bubbles, staying in classrooms for lunch breaks rather than using the student canteen, wearing PPE during practical sessions, and weekly COVID health declaration forms will remain in place.
If a student develops any COVID-19 symptoms, is concerned about any symptoms, has been told to self-isolate from the Government’s Track and Trace app or has been in contact with someone with COVID-19 symptoms, please can they contact the School Administration Office on 0207 776 9766 or email admin@beauty-school.co.uk immediately.
For the LSBM Beauty Salon, the salon team and student therapists will continue to wear masks for their well-being and safety. We encourage clients to also wear masks unless exempt to ensure we keep the salon a safe environment. Clients can now enter from the main front entrance and students should continue to use the student entrance on the side.
LSBM will continue to follow the guidelines on close contact working, and keep you updated with any further changes.
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 23rd February 2021
Dear students,
As you may already be aware after the announcement on the 22nd February, the Prime Minister has announced that schools will reopen on the 8th March!
At LSBM, students can be assured that classrooms have all been modified to meet government guidelines. The modification includes practices that have been in place since our reopening in July 2020, with a reduced number of students in practical workspaces and classroom bubbles.
All students and staff are required to wear the correct PPE at all times around the building and during lessons. When completing practical studies, you will have to wear face masks, gloves, and visors, and will not be able to practice without this equipment. These changes are in place to ensure that we are not contributing to the spread of the virus.
The beauty industry is one that is underpinned by enforced hygiene, health and safety practices. These high standards in health and safety are taught and practiced throughout all of our beauty and makeup courses. These standards ensure that upon completion, students can enter the beauty and makeup industry with the most up-to-date knowledge of health and hygiene habits within the workplace.
Those that are enrolling onto our VTCT beauty courses will have to complete a prerequisite Covid-19 awareness course. This is the VTCT Level 2 Award in Infection Prevention for Beauty Therapy and Nail Services. The course prepares learners for the reopening of beauty salons and providing treatments safely in a sterile and COVID safe manner. For CIBTAC and CIDESCO courses, students will have to complete the CIDESCO Sanitation and Sterilisation Award.
In other news, based on this announcement, we have confirmed all of our upcoming start dates based on these guidelines. As always, in these times, dates are subject to change based on government guidelines.
Courses yet to be completed should be receiving communications regarding their continuation date, as well as those students enrolled onto an upcoming course. Please look out for our emails regarding this, and please if it is not urgent wait for the communications to be sent out, as our emails are currently very busy, and we may have sent out information before reading your email.
The LSBM Beauty Salon is able to reopen from the 12th April 2021, and we endeavour to update you regarding the salon reopening in due course.
Stay safe, and we look forward to seeing you on 8th March 2021 when we reopen.
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 3rd February 2021
We hope you are all keeping safe and well, and sane during this lockdown. We wanted to update you regarding our courses.
The UK government has still not confirmed the reopen date for schools; we will be receiving 2 weeks’ notice for this.
The earliest date primary schools are possibly able to return is likely to be the 8th March, with other schools and universities following a staggered reopening, as was due in January.
With this in mind, we have needed to amend the start date for courses, as we are looking at the possibility we will not be able to reopen in February. We have amended dates to mid-March, pending the government’s confirmed reopen date.
We will confirm this as soon as we have received our 2 weeks’ notice.
In the meantime, any VTCT courses can study for the pre-requisite COVID Award.
Stay safe.
The LSBM Team x
Update: 5th January 2021
We would firstly like to say Happy New Year, and we hope that you had a good festive period. We hope you are all keeping positive after last night’s announcement.
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement The London School of Beauty and Make-up will remain closed until mid-February as per the current national lockdown restrictions.
Whilst it is unfortunate that the school cannot remain open during this lockdown, our students’ and staff health, safety and wellbeing remains our priority.
For those students mid-way through courses we will be in contact with you shortly regarding your course. For those students due to start courses prior to mid-February, we will be in contact with you in the coming days with amended start dates.
The office will remain open remotely for any questions during this period, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. We will notify you as soon as we can regarding a confirmed reopening date pending government guidance, but we are preparing this to be mid-February. The LSBM Beauty salon will also remain closed during this period.
Please keep safe and continue doing your part during this period, and we look forward to seeing you all back in February.
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 31st December 2020
Happy New Year, we hope that you are all well since our last update.
You might be aware but, following the Education Secretary’s announcement on the evening of the 30th December 2020. The London School of Beauty & Make-up will not be reopening from our winter break until Monday 18th January 2021.
Whilst, this announcement is unfortunate news for us all, we are committed to doing our part in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in our communities, and are bound by government restrictions in place.
For students whose courses are already underway, you will resume your studies on the 18th of January. For new students due to start a course before the 18th January, these will be postponed until the week of the 18th.
All our learning facilities have been modified, in accordance with the government’s guidance to make sure that we are not contributing to the spread of the virus. LSBM wants you to know that we remain committed to ensuring the safety of students, staff and visitors.
It is imperative for everyone’s safety in school that we all follow these guidelines in wearing PPE at all times around the building and during lessons, practical lessons will still require you to provide face masks and visors. LSBM has already signed up to the NHS Test and Trace program. You will find QR codes placed at the student entrance and changing room, Makeup studio 1, 2nd Floor corridor and salon reception; please ensure you do scan your phones, for everyone’s safety.
The LSBM Beauty salon remains closed until Tier 4 restrictions are reviewed in January.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to send an email to admin@beauty-school.co.uk.
Thank you all, we hope that you are all staying safe and look forward to welcoming you back from 18th January.
LSBM Team x
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3rd November 2020
We hope you are keeping safe and well.
As you are already aware the government has imposed a national lockdown from Thursday 5th November. The government has confirmed schools can remain open during this time, and we can confirm LSBM is fully operational. However, the salon will close at the end of day Wednesday 4th November until lockdown restrictions are lifted.
All courses in progress, and those due to start this week are going ahead as planned.
The safety and wellbeing of students and staff remain paramount. We ask you to please re-read and adhere to our in-school COVID-19 policies that are in place at the school. Masks need to be worn at all times, face masks plus face shields need to be worn during practical sessions, unless you are exempt. Please remain in your class bubbles, and pairings during classes. Students are still able to go ahead and undertake planned summative assessments in this period, using clients from within their support bubbles.
If you have any concerns please do not hesitate to get in contact with us .
LSBM Team x
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Salon Update- 6th October 2020
As the salon prepares to re-open, we wanted to let you know about the new social distancing measures that have been put in place. We know some of you will be feeling so excited about coming in to see us, while others may be feeling somewhat nervous and anxious. It is our goal that every single one of you can feel comfortable in our salon. As such, we are kindly asking that you:
Upon arrival, you will be asked to sanitise your hands, As per the government guidelines, you must wear a face-covering throughout your visit, please only remove your mask when instructed to do so by your therapist. You must fill in a screening form and we kindly ask you to scan our track and trace QR code.
We are also asking customers to reschedule your appointment if:
So that our salon is as safe as possible, you will have a slightly different salon experience than before:
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5th October 2020
I hope that you are all doing well since our last update
The London School of Beauty & Make-Up has now signed up to the NHS Test and Trace program. There are QR codes placed at the student entrance, Makeup classroom 1, 2nd Floor corridor, and one in at salon reception for clients.
Please download the NHS COVID-19 app from the App Store or Google Play and make sure at the start of the day, you are signing into LSBM via this code. (for their privacy policy please see this link)
We will continue to carry out weekly screenings via paper forms and temperature checks with your tutor at the start of the day for students, and asking all clients and visitors to perform the same upon entering the premises for any treatment/ tour. Everyone is encouraged to use this app to help us keep us all safe. If you do develop symptoms, please do not forget to notify the app as well as emailing me, and please do not come in if you do not feel well.
Thank you all, and I hope that you are all staying safe.
LSBM Team x
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Update: 19th August 2020
We hope that everyone is well and adjusting to our new ‘normal’.
The government has announced that from Friday 15th August 2020, close contact beauty services are now allowed to take place, with the provision that staff must wear a mask as well as a safety visor:
“Beauty salons, tattoo studios, spas and barbers across England will be able to offer all close contact services – including front of the face treatments such as eyebrow threading, eyelash treatments and facials from August 15 under new guidance… The Government has also confirmed today that all staff offering close contact services, including hairdressers, should now wear a face mask (type 2 surgical), in addition to a clear visor that covers the face. This will help protect the customer and staff from respiratory droplets caused by sneezing, coughing, or speaking.”
We are therefore enforcing this across The London School of Beauty and Make-Up, ensuring that all students must bring their own mask and visor to wear during class, except in the case that they are exempt from doing so. This is in-line with new government guidance and must be adhered to, to ensure the safety of all students and staff.
If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you and stay safe,
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 24th July 2020
We hope that everyone is well, adjusting to the new norms of face masks and social distancing.
A few weeks ago, the government announced that Businesses including beauty salons, nail bars, and tattoo studios can reopen safely from Monday 13 July. We have now been open for 4 working days, with social distancing measures in place. The full government announcement, including what treatments are not allowed before 1st August, such as facial treatments including facial massage, brow tinting, and brow shaping, can be found here.
We have now begun resuming our large variety of classes in line with the announcements, enforcing new social distancing and mask-wearing policies around the school both inside and outside the classroom to ensure the safety of all students and staff.
Courses that have resumed and new course dates, with the next new course beginning on 22nd August, will adhere to all government guidelines and safe practices, with added social distance measures to ensure the safety of everyone at The London School of Beauty and Make-Up.
The LSBM Salon will remain closed until a scheduled opening in September, with strict guidelines in place for treatments set in place, our Salon’s scheduled opening is to ensure that all students on our courses and clients are able to adhere to these.
More information will be posted in the coming weeks regarding the opening of LSBM Salon.
Regarding classes, LSBM has now introduced the following policies
If anyone has any further questions regarding any of the above-mentioned points or any course enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are pleased to say that we are able to continue enabling students to study at The London School of Beauty & Make-Up, and we look forward to seeing you all very soon.
Stay safe,
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 27th June 2020
We hope that you are staying safe and well during this time.
As you may be aware the prime minister, Boris Johnson gave a statement COVID-19 update in parliament on Tuesday 23rd June 2020. He announced measures to take place from the 4th July including:
Other close-contact services such as nail bars will not yet open, but the PM said they would be able to open “as soon as we’re confident they can operate safely”.
These include:
The PM is due to review this over the next few weeks.
This leaves our school opening date in the air. While FE (further education) colleges are allowed to open, follow social distancing, and practice on beauty dolls only, private beauty schools fall into a grey area between the industries of education and hospitality. This is leaving private schools across the UK very much lost.
We are urgently in contact with the relevant examining boards and governing bodies to try and get more clarity on this.
We are looking at how FE colleges are able to open and the procedures they are putting in place, while also considering social distancing within our classrooms and working on beauty dolls, hands, etc. to simulate treatments.
As we offer many different courses, beauty, facials, make-up and laser, it is possible that some courses will be allowed to start back before others. The student numbers in each group vary, therefore we need to adapt and change these in order to accommodate social distancing. This means smaller class sizes and therefore, more classes need to be arranged to get all of the previous students completed. We now have the difficult task of adopting a bespoke pathway for the planned restarting of each individual class. This has to be done before we can commence any new classes that were due to start during the lockdown period.
This will be a complicated and time-consuming task for our team. We hope that we will be allowed to re-open for some courses, provided we use plastic models for practical treatments. Please allow a few weeks for us to organise this schedule. We will endeavour to get an updated plan in place and contact each of you as soon as possible when we are better informed.
We knew that our re-opening date was just a guide and is always subject to government rules. We hope our classes and our daily lives will return to normal soon. I appreciate that this is very frustrating for you, as it is for us, but we are doing everything we possibly can and exhausting all possible avenues. Thank you again for your patience.
For more information regarding the updates visit:
Stay safe. The LSBM Team x
Update: 15th May 2020
Based on Boris Johnson’s phased approach, beauty salons, hairdressers, clinics and other hospitality businesses will not be in a position to open until July, at the earliest. Each phase has conditions; as long as the rate of infection remains low, we can continue to move on to the next phase, pending government advice. If the rate of infection increases, the country as a whole will move back a phase further delaying our business sector opening.
There are still restrictions for travel in place, and everyone has been advised to avoid public transport, where possible. Social distancing measures will remain in place over the next few phases of the PM’s plan.
We are working to develop ways in which it will be safe for us to re-open. We are also developing ways for our tutors to teach the theory classes online, details will be forthcoming on this.
I’m sure this is disappointing for you all to hear, I know we all keen for life to return to normal. However we must follow the government’s guidance in delaying the return of classes until the beginning of July, and do not want to risk the rate of infection by opening before it is safe to do so.
This is a part of a 50-page guidance document published by the Government.
For information regarding travel click the link below:
For more information form the health service click below:
Again we thank you for your patience during this time, we shall update this page with updates on dates and measures as soon as we are able.
Until then, it is important that we all support each other and stay safe.
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 20th April 2020
We hope you and your families are keeping safe and well.
Our core focus during these difficult and uncertain times remains the health, safety, and well being of our students, tutors, and staff.
Based on what is happening in the UK and the rest of the world, the lockdown and social distancing restrictions will be continuing into May and beyond we have had to re-evaluate our course start dates.
We have not yet confirmed our estimated course start dates for up-coming courses, however all course start dates will be based on the school being able to re-open hopefully by the end of May or early June.
We had courses that were running before the lockdown was put into place, therefore those courses will need to finish first before these new dates can begin.
Again, these are estimated dates subject to confirmation and the latest government guidance. We will review these estimated dates again in May, and publish these to you as soon as we are able. All published courses from September onwards are still the planned course dates.
We are not canceling any courses, just postponing until the lockdown is lifted.
We are doing our utmost to ensure our school and on-site salon will be running as normal after the end of the lockdown. These are very difficult and unprecedented times we are living in, and we hope you will continue to remain patient with us.
For further guidance and help during this difficult period, there are a number of organisations that can help:
The latest advice from the NHS:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
For guidance on Self Isolation visit:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-advice/
To find out what the U.K. Government has to say visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
To find out what The World Health Organisation has to say visit:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
For any further questions, please email admin@beauty-school.co.uk. We are still monitoring our emails on normal office hours, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
Keep safe, stay home and save lives.
We hope to see you all soon,
The LSBM Team x
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Update: 19th March 2020
The School:
We would like to inform you that we are closing The London School of Beauty and Make-up with immediate effect until further notice when we hope that normal operations will resume. We will notify you as soon as we can with our opening day pending government guidance.
Following the government announcement, it is too risky to have the school open, with many students having elderly relatives and the students coming from different locations, different modes of transport increasing the risk of infection to everyone. It does not make sense to stay open with precautions for the COVID-19 virus being of utmost importance.
The nature of our courses mean there would be a lot of human physical contact and closeness with students having to carry out treatments on one another for practice.
Update: 13th March 2020
At The London School of Beauty & Make-Up our priority continues to be the care and education of our learners and we are therefore following the current advice for schools from Public Health England.
As a private educational establishment, we are monitoring developments closely and are putting plans in place for every contingency. We will continue to email if there are any updates or changes in the recommendations for schools. The latest guidance received is that no school should close in response to a suspected (or confirmed) COVID-19 case unless directed to do so by Public Health England.
As this is a rapidly evolving situation, we will be keeping the situation, and our response, under continuous review. In the meantime, we are taking sensible precautions and advising all learners and staff to wash their hands regularly.
Links to further advice include: Updates on COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus.
Guidance for educational settings: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19.
Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus.
This is a key time for many learners who will be finalising their courses in the following months and so it is important for you to attend regularly, and keep up to date with your studies.
If you have any queries regarding this please don’t hesitate to email us on the email address: admin@beauty-school.co.uk
This page will be updated following any further information.
The LSBM Salon:
You can click the link HERE for the latest Government advice or HERE to read the latest information from the official NHS website. Let’s approach this with a unified front and look out for each other’s health and wellbeing.
Listed below are the measures we have put in place to ensure that our Clients and Team stay as safe as possible during this time…
We are following government guidelines and are, as always, taking precautions. With that in mind, we would kindly ask that you reschedule your appointment if you have been in one of the high-risk countries such as China, Italy, or Iran.
If you need to call us, you can call us on our salon number 020 7776 9767 – we value your co-operation and are happy to chat through any of your concerns.
Thank you,
The LSBM Beauty Salon Team
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