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Birmingham engineering firm named Future Skills Champion for outstanding training

Birmingham-based global engineering firm Lander Automotive has been named as one of the first recipients of the Future Skills Award of the new year, for their outstanding commitment to training the next generation of highly skilled engineering and trades apprentices.  The firm, which designs and manufactures fluid and air carrying pipes, tubular fabrications and interior trim …

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Nottingham plumbing and heating firm named as Future Skills Champion

A Nottingham-based plumbing and heating firm has been named as one of the first recipients of the Future Skills Award of the new year, for its outstanding commitment to training the next generation of highly skilled trades apprentices.  Bridgford Business Park-based BoilerCert, run by Charlie and Lyndsey Keightley, is amongst the first cohort of businesses …

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MP Alex Norris meets trades apprentices at Nottingham Apprenticeship Academy

Nottingham North MP Alex Norris met new trades apprentices at the HomeServe Apprenticeship Academy this week. The Labour MP for the Bulwell area, where the academy is based, took a whistle-stop tour of the training academy with HomeServe CEO John Kitzie and COO John Hunter. The 12 gas engineering apprentices he met were successful candidates picked from 5,000 …

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More than £2.5m in apprenticeships funds on offer to SMEs

A brand new online apprenticeship levy transfer service launched by the Government has gone live with more than £2.5m on offer already available to SMEs, this month/October.  The Government portal is intended to simplify the process for both employers looking to transfer funds and smaller businesses wanting to access funding.  There is currently more than £2,591,000 pledged by large firms including DPD, Amazon and HomeServe PLC, as well as …

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Former Aston Martin Chief, and host of apprenticeship champions first to be honoured with ‘Future Skills Award’

Former Aston Martin chief Andy Palmer, and a range of organisations nationwide are first recipients of a new award to celebrate apprenticeship champions in the UK.  Future Skills Award open for organisations nationwide to apply for, as HomeServe Foundation aims to celebrate all individuals and organisations helping Britain recover and creating jobs. Former apprentice turned …

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Richard Harpin Daily Mail Interview

Staff shortages threaten to derail Covid recovery

THE DAILY MAIL: Staff shortages threaten to derail Covid recovery: It’s hard to build back better when you don’t have any builders, warns Homeserve chief Britain is facing a ‘perfect storm’ of staff shortages that will hamper the recovery from the coronavirus crisis, two entrepreneurs have claimed. Speaking to the Mail, Homeserve boss Richard Harpin …

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Apprenticeships: give young people the chance of bright future

Apprenticeships: give young people the chance of bright future, help bridge social mobility and equality gaps and offer route out of economic crisis. The potential of apprenticeships to increase opportunity for young people, especially those from lower socio-economic groups and BAME communities, and deliver the skills needed by the economy, is greater than ever as …

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HomeServe Foundation welcomes Paragon as its first strategic partner

The HomeServe Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of home repairs and improvements company HomeServe Plc, has announced that Paragon Customer Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of end-to-end omnichannel services for marketing, transactional, operational and workplace solutions, will become its first strategic partner. The new partnership will see the HomeServe Foundation and Paragon work together on …

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Britain’s economic recovery will be blighted by a construction and trade skills crisis, without Government action

A chronic shortage of key trades like plumbers, electricians and carpenters will hamper Britain’s economic growth over the next ten years and threatens to stoke home repair bills and house prices, a new report reveals. The UK must urgently expand its apprenticeship schemes, with 305,000 new construction trades apprentices needed to fill the void left behind by an ageing …

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Flexi-job apprenticeship will allow agencies to be the apprentice’s employer for the duration of their apprenticeship while placing the apprentice with other host employers for short term placements. This will enable apprentices to move between businesses as they complete their apprenticeship, while remaining employed throughout by the agency.

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