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Hair & beauty treatment guides
20 guides — 8 hair, 12 beauty — covering what each service is, whether UK law requires a licence for it today, what qualification and insurance a practitioner should hold, what our members charge, and the questions worth asking before you book.
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Hair
Hairdressing and barbering are not licensed anywhere in the UK, and no qualification is legally required. These guides set out what the training actually is, where the real risks sit, and what to ask.
Beauty & aesthetics
England has agreed a licensing scheme for cosmetic procedures but has not commenced it. Each guide states where that treatment would sit, and what applies in the meantime.