On May 24th Catch22 and the Learning and Work Institute held a webinar exploring pre-employment opportunities for young people.

 

Click here to watch the webinar: https://lnkd.in/eUHDpnYZ

Click here to access useful resources for promoting social mobility within the workplace.

From 2025 the Lifelong Loan Entitlement will replace the two existing systems of publicly funded higher education student finance loans and Advanced Learner Loans.

This will give people the opportunity to train and retrain throughout their lives and widens access to more support for mainstream qualifications.

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Youth (aged 15-24) unemployment is a major issue in many developed economies at present.

In Q4 2022 the youth unemployment rate was 30.0% in Spain, 29.5% in Greece and 28.6% in Costa Rica.
It was 11.3% in the UK.

 

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The Housing Minister has announced more students across England will benefit from a £5,000 bursary to pursue careers as planners designing greener neighbourhoods and thriving towns.

Over 50 young professionals with be offered a bursary through the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to
study a planning masters, attracting the next generation of students aspiring to train and work in the
planning sector.

This funding from the Department for Levelling Up will back more careers in the planning sector, helping
councils recruit staff and create better communities that people are proud to call home.

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A £75 million investment – a  further example of how the UK government is growing the economy by helping people set up and run businesses from anywhere in the country and creating more job opportunities in even the most rural areas.

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Heineken is receiving £3.7 million to upgrade their Manchester Brewery, including installing technology to recover waste heat from the refrigeration systems used to cool their beer.

Toyota in Derby is receiving over £282,000 to introduce new airless paint sprayers, which use static electricity instead of air, to reduce the amount of energy they need.

Britvic Soft Drinks will use £4.4 million to implement new technologies, including a heat recovery system and Low-Temperature Hot Water network, at its site in east London, where it produces drinks such as Tango and Robinsons.

Kellogg’s in Wrexham will receive funding for a study assessing the possibility of recovering the waste heat from their cereal manufacturing processes to reduce their gas usage.

Tate and Lyle Sugars, which supplies nearly half of all the sugar and syrup on UK supermarket shelves, is receiving over £71,800 to explore how to reduce natural gas use at their Thames Refinery

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The scheme will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade. Life-saving emergency services will benefit from greener zero-emission vehicles, thanks to £77 million in new funding for projects developing clean transport technologies, announced recently.

The HYER POWER project, to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell range extender for specialist electric vehicles in demanding roles like fire engines and ambulances is just one of seven pieces of work across the UK that are getting joint Government and industry backing.

The schemes, which range from work on battery-powered buses, to a hydrogen-powered version of the iconic Ford Transit van, will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade, from Bath to Ballymena.

Investing in the development of cutting-edge technologies in key industries will help deliver on the government’s priority to grow the UK economy.

 

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Helping to protect Wales from cyber-attacks, creating new jobs with a pipeline of future talent for the UK’s fast-growing cyber ecosystem is at the heart of a new Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

The plan sets out how Wales’s leading cyber sector can support the growth of the Welsh economy, ensuring Wales can prosper through cyber resilience, talent, and innovation.

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