Tag Archive: employability

Fund your new hires through Kickstart

Posted 19th October 2021 at 11:30 am

Employers of all sizes can apply for Kickstart funding to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit. Employers can spread the job start dates up until 31 December 2021, with funding available until 30 June 2022 if a young person starts their job on 31 December 2021. The funding covers: 100% of the National Minimum Wage (or National Living Wage where applicable by age) for 25 hours per week for a total of 6 months. Associated employer National Insurance contributions Minimum automatic enrolment pension contributions   In addition, a further £1500 funding per job is available... Read more

Essential Skills for the Workforce of the Future

Posted 7th July 2020 at 10:44 am

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As the DfE set out its plans for welcoming all children back to schools in September this week, there was concern amongst the education community at their plan to ‘suspend’ non-core subjects for two terms so that pupils could ‘catch-up’ on English and Maths. Perhaps because of the furious backlash that this leaked announcement caused, the government quickly rowed back on this plan and confirmed that the full curriculum is still to be taught, albeit with the ‘non-core’ subjects being adapted to include more English and Maths content. This got us to thinking, what are the key skills that our... Read more