Challenge to businesses during National Apprenticeship Week

Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire have been challenged to recruit apprentices to mark National Apprenticeship Week 2016.
The annual nationwide initiative is this year focusing on how young people, entrepreneurs and businesses can rise to the top through apprenticeships and traineeships.

The Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) organised a breakfast event at the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub in Cheylesmore, Coventry, to discuss the importance of apprenticeships to young people and businesses.

A wide range of business organisations heard about research into traineeships from Howard Gannaway of the Learning and Work Institute; the recruitment of traineeships from the employer’s perspective from Fiona Baker of Nuneaton-based Midlands Training & Development; and a presentation about apprenticeships in Coventry and Warwickshire from Torin Spence, of Warwickshire County Council.

A total of 43,940 apprenticeships have been started in Coventry and Warwickshire since May 2010 – and the CWLEP is keen to build on the figure as part of the government’s national target of recruiting three million apprentices by 2020.