If you're paying a visit to the after-school club at London's St Joan of Arc Extended School you better have washed your hands properly first or the pupils will be onto you.
The children at the club caught the hand-washing bug after one of its workers attended a food hygiene course.
"We provide the children with a snack each day so our staff have to be food safety trained for when they are preparing snacks," says Savanah Popal, the club's manager.
"So we sent a member of staff on a food hygiene course and on that she did this task where they wash their hands, put their hands into this lotion and then use these blue LED lights to check where the germs still are."
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