by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published its latest apprenticeships and traineeships statistics. The data includes apprenticeship service data as of June 2020, and apprenticeship starts to May 2020, with separate June 2020 starts covering the COVID-19 outbreak. This contains figures for...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The DfE has published annual statistics on young people’s participation in higher education by student characteristics, including eligibility for free school meals, gender, ethnicity, special educational need status and first language.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new law to ensure that furloughed employees who are then made redundant will receive redundancy pay based on their normal wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate. This legislation will also ensure that notice pay is based on normal...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced £20 million of new funding to help smaller businesses recover from the effects of COVID-19. Small and medium-sized businesses will have access to grants of between £1,000 – £5,000 to help them access new technology and other...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 30, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Treasury has announced that changes to state aid rules mean that more small businesses can now benefit from loans of up to £5 million under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). Previously businesses that were classed as ‘undertakings in...
