New £350 million funding available !
It may be possible to have your training programme funded
(or part funded) through the Government's Train To Gain initiative. The Government
has announced a new funding package for small businesses - see details below.
How 'Train to Gain' works
With the Train to Gain service, you apply directly for the Funding that may be
available and an appointed 'Skills Broker' will review your request to ensure
your requirements and training needs are met. As your training provider, the
Centre for People Development will support you all along the way to help you
get maximum benefit from the service.
Train to Gain will recommend a Skills Broker to review your training and development needs and requirements to match available funding. Organising and implementing training can be challenging and time-consuming for employers. A skills broker or training company like CfPD, takes on much of the hard work, identifying quality courses, provision and business support, helping you schedule your training and/or business support to minimise disruption to your operations.
There’s a lot of support available to help finance your training or offer additional advice. If you’re eligible for partial or full funding or subsidies, your skills broker will help you access the support.
Please give us a call to discuss possible funding opportunities further!
DENHAM ANNOUNCES £350M TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES
Skills Secretary John Denham announced that small businesses will be the focus of £350 million of Government funds to help them train their
staff.
The Government’s approach will be reshaped and money will be available to deliver a new package of support to help small businesses get
through the tougher economic climate by building the skills and expertise of their workers.
It will deliver funding for training, with the minimum level of bureaucracy or delay. This will be for subjects such as business improvement
techniques or leadership and management, which are proven to provide skills to increase the productivity of individuals and firms.
John Denham said:
“Small businesses are an important engine of our economy and we must make sure that we support them during tough economic times.
“We are overhauling the training system to make sure that they can get help with training their staff with the very minimum of bureaucracy. We
know that firms which invest in skills do better than those that don’t, which is why we will be urging small businesses to take up this offer from
Government.”
The funding to support training will be drawn from the Government’s ‘Train to Gain’ programme - the scheme that supports and subsidises staff
training. Funding for the programme is planned to rise to £1 billion by 2010-11. In allocating the planned increase in spending on this programme
over the next two years, the Government will give top priority to meeting demand from small businesses in the private sector (those with up to
250 employees).
The key elements of the £350m Train to Gain package are:
* Relaxing the rules to allow funding for "bite-sized chunks” - small units or modules of qualifications in subjects known to be important to
SMEs, such as business improvement, team-working, customer service, and risk management;
* Help for groups of SMEs located together in business parks so that they can increase their purchasing power and share resources to support
the training of local SME staff;
* Extending DIUS’s successful leadership and management programme so that more SMEs can benefit from it, including in companies with just
5-10 workers;
* Relaxing the rules to allow workers to get training up to level 2 even if they already have a previous qualification at this level; and more funding
for level 3 training;
* Brokers to offer tried and tested skills diagnostics and audits so companies can have their training needs more accurately identified; and point
SMEs to the right solutions from the most appropriate providers;
* A new communications campaign to begin next month to underline the benefits of upskilling and reskilling and the breadth of the support on
offer from Government.
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