Skills for Employment update

Grant opportunities to be announced at Skills Conference

The third Warwickshire Skills conference for business and education leaders takes place on 13 March at Chesford Grange Hotel near Leamington Spa.  Some of the thousands of learners who benefitted from the Skills for Employment programme in the past two years will describe the impact on their lives. The University of Derby will reveal a new model to quantify the economic benefits careers and employability activity provides to individuals, businesses and the wider economy. Delegates will discuss what more could be done to help education providers respond to local skills shortages.

Details of new grant opportunities in 2017 for schools, colleges and education/business partnerships will be announced at the conference and will appear in the 5 April edition of Heads Up.

Grants worth more than £1 million awarded

Grants worth more than £1 million were awarded in 2015-2016. Conference delegates will receive a new booklet which summarises the grants individual schools, colleges and partnerships have received and the careers support provided to young people with the funding.  A digital version of the booklet can be obtained from 14 March by emailing a request to skillsforemployment@warwickshire.gov.uk

Free Skills Conference bookings can be made here until noon on 9 March:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skills-conference-2017-warwickshire-tickets-30948331292