training
17 Feb 2025
Empowering Rural Youth: Herefordshire’s Employment Hub Launches New Opportunities for Career Development
The Rural Services Network is proud to highlight a remarkable initiative undertaken by one of our members, the Herefordshire Youth Employment Hub. This hub, a new cornerstone for youth engagement...
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23 Jul 2024
Councils Call for Delay to Unfunded Cap on Care, Warning of £30bn Funding Shortfall
England’s largest councils are urging the government to delay the introduction of the cap on adult social care costs, warning that the reforms are impossible to implement by October 2025...
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30 May 2023
£165 million fund launched to transform local skills
The Department for Education issued a press release on the 24th May 2023 setting out how local employer skills gaps are to be addressed with a funding boost to transform...
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04 Jan 2021
Coldharbour Mill launches rural skills training programme
Local publication, In Your Area, has reported that a new skills training programme is providing countryside and land management skills training at Coldharbour Mill, Devon The historic mill’s scheme, which...
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05 Oct 2020
Skills Guarantee
On the 29th September the Prime Minister made a speech outlining a ”major expansion of post-18 education and training to level up and prepare workers for post-COVID economy” From April...
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24 Sep 2020
Skills – Proportion of employees and self-employed that received job related training in the last 4 weeks
This analysis presents data taken from the Annual Population Survey of the proportion of employees and self-employed that received job related training in the preceding 4 weeks (employees and self...
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11 Nov 2019
Liberal Democrats announce skills wallet plans
The BBC reports that the Liberal Democrat party are proposing a £10,000 grant for every adult in England to put towards education and training. The money would go into a...
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23 Jan 2019
Rural Economy Committee – RSN Summary of the Final Evidence Session
The House of Lords Rural Economy Committee met for a final evidence session on the Government’s vision for the rural economy on Tuesday 22 January. The committee heard evidence from:...
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