by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has announced the launch of the Loneliness Engagement Fund which provides small grants between £15,000 and £50,000 to organisations who can engage with target groups at high risk of loneliness. The fund will give...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The CIPD is calling for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting by 2023 to help boost workplace equality. The CIPD has also released guidance to help employers measure and report their ethnicity pay gap in the absence of legislation.
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The DfE has announced that it will be publishing a ranking of the top apprenticeship employers for 2022, one for the Top 100 Large Employers (with over 250 employees), and one for the Top 50 Small Medium Enterprises. The application window will open early in 2022, and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has announced that it will be launching a market entry opportunity to support the growth of the traineeship programme and expand the provision of 16 to 18-year-old traineeships later this month. It will be open to training organisations not currently...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
Last month the DFE announced that connectivity grants will be available in the event of COVID-19 disruption to education. The grants will be to help young people in FE who do not otherwise have access to adequate internet connectivity at home. Guidance on eligibility...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
Weekly apprenticeship and traineeship vacancy reports from data on the Find an apprenticeship website are available from the ESFA. The reports show all live vacancies for apprenticeships and traineeships by local authority area. If you would like to sign up to receive...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has issued a reminder that the Keeping children safe in education statutory guidance, and the Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges advice have been updated and came into effect on 1 September 2021. A full list of...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
The latest information from the ESFA: 1. Reminder: incentive payment for hiring a new apprentice; 2. Reminder: 16 to 19 tuition fund 2021 to 2022 form; 3. Reminder: keeping children safe in education statutory guidance; 4. Information: weekly apprenticeship and...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
Recruitment site Reed has published research that shows that 71% of their 2000 respondents are either actively looking for a new job (41%) or are open to new opportunities (30%). The research also looked into what employers can do to retain their workers and what...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
This article from Emsi looks at data on the growth and decline in employer demand for skills and how this helps to highlight possible future trends in skills demand.
