From time to time CLEAPSS receives enquiries from schools about recommendations, to meet health and safety standards, made following commercial health and safety inspections of design and technology facilities and equipment.

This guide addresses questions about suitable training and suggests a strategy that departments can adopt.

Welcome to the first issue of FutureMinds where we review a range of resources to support 3D printing including a novel use in Textiles. We also showcase the Greenpower racing challenge and give you some Food and Textiles updates.

This term, Futureminds has articles about the use of Hydrogen as a fuel, the difficulties for D&T, Equality and Diversity, Design Ventura, virtual F1 in schools, technicians tips, the Tunnock Tea Cake challenge, and, of course, the small print.