by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership has shared a final message before all activities that have been undertaken by South East LEP to support local growth will be undertaken by local authorities. “Thank you to all our partners, businesses, local...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
A new study has revealed that the retail trade is the industry with the highest percentage of the workforce working in. The study, conducted by income protection experts Eleos, analysed data from the Office for National Statistics 2021 Census to reveal how much of the...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
Matt Hancock recently announced that the previous plan to implement the ‘Dyslexia Screening and Teacher Training Bill’ has now become neurodiversity wide. Being named the ‘Neurodivergent Conditions Screening, Teaching and Training Bill’. The ‘Neurodivergent Conditions...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
Luke Hall has been appointed as a Department for Education minister following the resignation of skills, apprenticeships and higher education minister Robert Halfon. The Thornbury and Yate MP was minister for regional growth at the Ministry of Housing, Communities...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
Robert Halfon has resigned as minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education and plans to stand down as an MP at the next election. Halfon became skills minister for the first time in 2016 but was sacked a year later by then-prime minister Theresa May. He...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
SCTP would like to run an online best practice sharing webinar for members to support movement towards the government success rate target of 67%. We would like to invite any members who have achieved 67% or above to share best practice with the wider membership....
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
Brighton and Hove City Council has launched a consultation into how residents can get more involved in decision making in the city. Councillors recently voted to change to a Cabinet model from a Committee System to carry out its business and this presents an...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
Four in five UK employers say the lack of digital skills is having a negative impact on their business and means they cannot achieve their strategic goals. It isn’t good that businesses are thinking that they need to be smarter about recruiting those skills –...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
This National Statistics release is based on data from the Labour Force Survey. It gives estimates of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), and estimates of young people not in education or training (NET). The figures cover 16 to 24 year olds...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Apr 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
In April 2024, the National Living Wage will increase to £11.44. The Low Pay Comission (LCP) expect this to mean the highest rate of the minimum wage reaches two-thirds of median earnings, achieving a target first set by the Government in 2020. In March 2023, the...
