Pounds 1m Funding to Boost Training in the County ; There Is Some Light at the End of the Tunnel, with a Cash Injection for Construction Training, Reports Andrew Merrell

Gloucestershire Echo, The › August 19, 2009

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CONSTRUCTION firms and apprentices have received a welcome boost after it was announced Pounds 1m of funding was being made available to help support beleaguered industry training in the South West.

ConstructionSkills, the UK's Sector Skills Council for construction, announced it had successfully secured the funding from the National Apprenticeship Service . The cash will help support construction companies in the South West that take on apprentices who have been laid-off during the recession.

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Pounds 1m Funding to Boost Training in the County ; There Is Some Light at the End of the Tunnel, with a Cash Injection for Construction Training, Reports Andrew Merrell

Gillian Cain, apprenticeship manager for ConstructionSkills South West, said: "We have been talking to the Government in recent months...

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