The FDF is supporting members to help them better under understand and access lifelong learning schemes which offer funding opportunities for reskilling and upskilling.
The Adult Education Budget is available for employers and individuals to gain additional skills needed to progress into work, an apprenticeships or further learning.
The National Skills Fund Retraining Scheme has combined with the National Retraining Scheme to help adults currently in work to retrain and get a better job. The scheme is aimed at businesses are individuals who may need support as a result of increased automation. This is currently available in pilot areas, but will be rolled out across England.
Lifetime Skills Guarantee, announced in September 2020, will give adults without an A-Level or equivalent qualification access to a free, fully-funded college course. This offer will be available from April 2021.
On 29 July, the Department for Education announced the addition of several new courses to their approved list for the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, including several related to food manufacturing, and well as in hospitality and catering. Both these areas were excluded from the initial courses approved by DfE when the Lifetime Skills Guarantee courses were published in April this year.
FDF has worked hard over the past several months to bring this oversight to the attention of DfE and push for the inclusion of food-manufacturing related course. As part of this work the FDF created a cross-sector working group who met with DfE officials several times in advance of today’s announcement.
The following two courses are now eligible under the Lifetime Skills Guarantee:
For more information please contact Mark Corbett.
A Fife teacher has become the first to score a perfect 100% in a new online training resource for Scotland’s schools and colleges. The digital training platform aims to show teachers the importance of the whole food and drink chain, from farm to fork, linking it to curriculum subjects such as Biology, Geography, Maths, Environmental Science and Health and Food Technology.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Cymru and the British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) have today launched what it sees as the key priorities for the next Welsh Government.
A new online teacher training resource for Scotland’s schools and colleges aims to boost Scotland’s knowledge of Good Food. It provides a suite of resources to empower educators to teach secondary pupils about food, STEM and sustainability.
Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, FDF Scotland is calling for a platform to help our world-renowned food and drink industry recover from coronavirus and Brexit, and to return to growth.
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