Across the UK, we have significant and long-standing skills gaps in a number of key sectors, with wide ranging implications for the workforce, the economy, and society as a whole.
One of the places that we see this impact most clearly is in engineering and manufacturing. A lack of required skills and accessible training can impact young people leaving education; local businesses and communities; and also the wider state of the economy as we compete in a global market. In a whole range of areas, from sustainability practices, to viable food production, to construction and home building, we simply don’t have the skills we need to empower our workforce, and meet the needs of British industry.
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