DWP Promises Careers Service Merger Plan ‘by April’

The government has promised to publish a “detailed transition plan” for transferring up to 1,000 subcontracted careers advisers and staff into the Department for Work and Pensions by April next year. Click here for more from FE Week.

Working from Home Could get People Back into Work

Home working could support the Government’s plans to get people back into work, by enabling people to work who might not otherwise be able to do so. This is one of the key findings of a new report, ‘Is working from home working?’, published by the House of Lords...

£900k VocTech UfI Activate Grant Fund Opens January 2026

VocTech Activate is the University for Industry’s test bed where the first spark of an idea to solve a vocational learning problem can be scoped and tested in the supportive environment that Ufi funding provides. They grant fund projects that are at a relatively...