PM Meets with LEP Chairs

Prime Minister Theresa May hosted the first Local Enterprise Partnerships Council at Downing Street this week. Click here to see a summary of the main points of the discussion.

£22m Fund Launched to Boost Construction Skills

A multi-million pound fund to help tackle the construction skills shortage has been launched by the Skills Minister Anne Milton. With 158,000 new construction jobs expected to be created in the UK over the next five years, the £22million Construction Skills Fund will...

QA Joins SCTP

A warm welcome back to SCTP’s latest full member – national specialist, grade 1, IT apprenticeship provider, QA. We look forward to working with Amanda Spring, Apprenticeships Resourcer and James Dawson, Sales Manager. QA has a local branch in the New England Quarter...

AELP Defends Level 2 Apprenticeships in New Paper

The Government urgently needs to boost lower level skills training to be ready for Brexit, according to a new AELP policy paper. AELP wants ministers to use government spending and post-18 education reviews as an opportunity to “reverse the sharp fall in level two...