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.
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. They ask for a moratorium on policy and regulation changes that will negatively impact Scotland’s food and drink manufacturers.
Food and Drink Manufacturers across England, Scotland and Wales have been successful in their bid to offer hundreds of job placements to young people as part of the government’s Kickstart scheme.
The FDF has announced the shortlist for the Food and Drink Federation Awards 2020, which takes place virtually on Wednesday 3 February 2021.
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