Press Release
A local training provider is playing its part
in retaining and developing the skills of people in the region.
The Skills and Adaptable Workforce course
delivered by Seetec, a training provider in the Black Country, is
available to people in employment who would like to improve their
skills. Without this focus on training, valuable skills could be
lost in the region, potentially leaving a skills gap.
The Skills and Adaptable Workforce training
offers Level 2 courses across a variety of specific areas which are
designed to enrich each individual’s skills at the same time as
bringing benefits back into the workplace. Business Administration,
IT, Warehousing and Customer Service are just some of the
qualifications that are on offer.
To date, nearly 100 people have undertaken the
training, which is backed by the Learning and Skills Council’s and
West Midlands Leaders Board’s regional European Social Fund (ESF)
programme. The training comes at no cost to the individual, as long
as they remain committed to the course and complete the
training.
Lorraine Crampton, programme manager at
Seetec, said: “This type of training is particularly important as
it offers skills-based qualifications. It concentrates on the
occupational needs of individuals and helps companies to up-skill
their workforce.
“We offer a particularly broad range of
courses for people with various levels of ability.”
Ian Reid, area manager for Mr Tyre, has four
members of staff currently undertaking the training: “In the
current climate, it is important to have a workforce that has the
relevant skills to keep the business working at its best. This
training is helping people in the Midlands develop their skills,
making sure that the region maintains its reputation of having a
highly-skilled workforce.”
For those interested in undertaking the
training, please contact Lorraine Crampton at Seetec on 01384
216900.
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For more information about the region’s ESF
co-financing programme, please contact Hannah Pries, Laura Reid or
Christine Smart on 0121 456 3199 or email
laura.reid@smarts.co.uk.
Notes to editors
European Social Fund 2007 -
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The European Social Fund (ESF) was set up to
improve employment opportunities in the European Union and so help
raise standards of living. It aims to help people fulfil their
potential by giving them better skills and better job
prospects.
The ESF programme forms part of the wider
European Structural Funds programme running from 2007 to 2013,
through which the UK will receive an anticipated £8bn of European
funding.
In the West Midlands, the Learning and Skills
Council, West Midlands Leaders Board and Jobcentre Plus are working
with partners such as Seetec to deliver a wide range of projects
designed to promote regional employment and skills objectives.
The LSC and West Midlands Leaders Board have
over £200m to invest in:
- Improving the employability of inactive and
unemployed people
- Tackling the barriers faced by young people
not in education, employment or training
- Assisting offenders into work, education or
training
- Providing small grants to the third sector to
support the aims of ESF
- Supporting people experiencing redundancy to
retrain and find new jobs
- Raising the qualifications and skills of
workers to improve their job prospects and productivity
About Seetec
- Seetec is one of the UK’s leading Government
Funded training providers with over 25 years experience of
delivering Welfare to Work and Skills and Training programmes.
- Seetec has a network of 60 employment and
training centres across the UK delivering a range of Department for
Work and Pensions, Learning and Skills Council and European Social
Fund contracts.
- Seetec has extensive operations across the
West Midlands including employment and training centres in
Birmingham, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich and
Dudley in the Black Country; Stoke and Cannock in Staffordshire as
well as Coventry.
- Seetec delivers mainstream and ESF LSC
programmes including Train to Gain, Apprenticeships, Employability
Skills Programme and Response to Redundancy.
- Seetec also delivers a variety of DWP
Programmes including: Flexible New Deal, Pathways to Work, New Deal
for Disabled People, Programme Centre, Programme Centre for Lone
Parents and ESF contracts to help people back into work.
- For more information on Seetec visit
www.seetec.co.uk
Government Office West
Midlands
go-wm.gov.uk/gowm/EuroFund/StructuralFunds2007-2013/?a=42496
Jobcentre Plus
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/supplying-dwp/what-we-buy/welfare-to-work-services/european-social-fund/
LSC
lsc.gov.uk/regions/WestMidlands/ESF/
West Midlands Leaders
Board
http://www.wmleadersboard.gov.uk/