Support with skill training
Having a skilled workforce can help boost productivity and there are training schemes which can be designed to suit the needs of employers and their workers alike. As an employer, you can also get help with the costs.
Skills and training
Business Link offer practical advice skills and training advice for businesses.
Train to Gain
This service is aimed at helping adults and young people in England to get the best possible training in the workplace. It offers businesses:
- free and impartial advice on their training needs
- help in finding the right training - at a time and place which suits them and their employees
- in some cases, help sourcing funding
- help reviewing progress in developing the skills of their workforce
Find out more about Train to Gain
learndirect Learning through Work Scheme
Learning Through Work lets employees study a university-level course without taking time off work. They can work towards an undergraduate or postgraduate qualification, or just do one or two modules of a course - depending on what suits you. The scheme is run by learndirect and a number of partner universities and colleges. Employers can use the scheme to set up a programme that meets their specific needs.
Find out more about the learndirect Learning through Work Scheme
Apprenticeships
An Apprenticeship gives an employee the chance to work towards a qualification while he or she is earning.Many employers choose to provide training through an Apprenticeship programme - they are designed by businesses within a particular sector, with that sector?s training needs in mind.
Find out more about Apprenticeships
Backing Young Britain
Ministers are appealing to businesses and other organisations to make a commitment to support young people, in at least one of the following ways:
- work with a partnership to bid for one of the 100,000 jobs for young people from the Future Jobs Fund;
- offer a volunteering place or a volunteer mentor for school or university leavers;
provide work experience places to help young people learn about work, make contacts and fill their CV; - consider a young person for a job through a work trial;
offer an internship for a graduate; - provide an apprenticeship for 16-24 year olds,
- join a Local Employment Partnership to make sure job vacancies are advertised to local unemployed people.
Launching the Backing Young Britain campaign, Ministers announced £40 million to fund over 20,000 additional internships, meaning graduates and non-graduates can access higher quality work experience and a new mentoring network to help young people find their feet in a tough jobs market.
Visit Backing Young Britain for more information.
