Workforce Skills

A skilled workforce is essential to sustain a competitive and productive economy.

Commitment to training has proven to improve business performance. Encouraging employees to learn new skills:

• improves morale

• stimulates innovation, and

• content and valued employees are more likely to remain loyal

Local Assistance

To review your business training needs and to source local training and skills providers, contact a Skills Broker from the college on 0845 2302 007 or someone direct from the Train to Gain programme on 0845 600 9 006 to access this service.

A local Skills Broker can work with you to design a programme and find the right training provider to deliver the training needed.

For those employees who do not already have a full Level 2 qualification, the Government will provide funding to help them gain basic literacy and numeracy skills as well as their first full Level 2 qualification.

For a list of other local traning and skills providers, use the Business Web Link Directory.