Stephen Metcalfe MP: supports campaign to bring £50m funding to
improve workforce skills
Local MP
Stephen Metcalfe has shown his support for a National Consortium of Colleges
and Providers (NCCP) campaign to alert British businesses to the potential £50m
of funding available to provide basic literacy and numeracy training in the
workplace.
Some of
the biggest names in Basic Skills provision have launched the major national
campaign, named ‘For
Business, For Life’. Together, as the NCCP, they are reaching
out to business leaders in every sector to tell them about the advantages of
their employees receiving training in English and maths. In addition to
acquiring more confident and ambitious workers, the vast majority will receive
government funding for the training. It will cost them nothing.1
For the first time, funding is now available for all
businesses, from start-ups to FTSE100 giants, to bring English and maths into
the workplace at no cost to themselves.1 And for small businesses, there is a
cash incentive to improve their employees' skills.
Stephen
Metcalfe commented: “It is so important that employers are made aware of every
opportunity available to help benefit and improve their workforces.
The
training and improving of these skills will not only benefit businesses, but
also perform a huge social good to people up and down the country, who for one
reason or another have fallen out of step with some of the most basic of life
skills.
I
encourage all interested employers to visit the NCCP website at http://www.ncc.ac.uk/
and have a look at this incredible opportunity.”
1Subject to meeting
criteria
