Powering our future workforce

TeenTech and the Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership helping to engage young people during the lockdown half-term.

Over the past month, TeenTech with the Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership (LDSP) has delivered TeenTech Innovation Live (for students aged 11-19) and TeenTech City of Tomorrow Live sessions (for students aged 8-13) to hundreds of students across Lancashire!

Due to the success of the programme and continued demand from young people, teachers and parents, TeenTech and LDSP are delighted to announce that they are making these sessions available again during half-term, as well as a few extras!

Families or schools can register for these free sessions here: http://teentech.com/live/lancashire

INSPIRA are working in partnerships with back to work training to enhance your knowledge and digital skills with a FREE Digital Skills course with a FREE TABLET.

This course will give you the confidence and the information in order to pursue a successful career in Digital media or the  IT sector.

The criteria needed in order to access the training is:

• Must already have a PC or laptop
• Must complete a maths and English course
• Must be 19 or older from the 31 Aug 2019
• Must be claiming some form of benefits.

After you have passed and completed the course then you will receive the free tablet

Full guidance and support will be provided throughout.

Are you looking for a fresh start? Do you want to work within the Hospitality industry?

Join us for a two week FREE online course to learn the basics you need to secure a job in the industry.

Adult Learners Week - June 14th

Adult Learners Week is almost here!

Learn something new for Adult Learners Week, 14th-19th June. We've a range of FREE online courses, from cookery, first aid and family yoga to volunteer training and employability skills.  Whether you are looking to improve skills for work, for wellbeing or just to upskill yourself, there is something to suit everyone.

https://padlet.com/Lancashire_Adult_Learning/AdultLearnersWeekJune14

https://www.runshaw.ac.uk/apprenticeships-vacancies/

https://www.preston.ac.uk/apprenticeships/apprenticeship-vacancies/

https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsearch

Blackburn College link to vacancies

Apprentice Factory

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers, by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers your business impartial advice and support in finding the best solutions for skills and workforce development needs. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce. Let us save you time by connecting you directly with the right provider.

If you are considering a career change, the Apprentice Factory can offer you guidance on skills support, local apprenticeships and training and routes to alternative employment opportunities in growing areas of the economy.

For students planning their future careers, the Apprentice Factory offers you information, advice and guidance about future employment opportunities locally, the skills required by employers and career progression routes including the apprenticeships that are available, right up to degree level.

South Ribble Apprentice Factory will support local businesses to create quality apprenticeships, ensuring that the skills supply is appropriate to local skills demands and helping local people to access and benefit from the new job opportunities being created through economic growth in South Ribble.

Developing tomorrows workforce today……

Businesses

The Apprentice Factory will offer your business bespoke support to help you to upskill and develop your employees to meet the current and future skills needs of your business in a complex and rapidly changing world.

We can:

• Help you to find the right apprenticeships for your business.
• Support you to meet your workforce skills needs by discussing and researching the best training solutions for your business,connecting you directly with the right providers.
• Promote your business skills needs to young people in schools, who are planning their future careers, inspiring them to apply to your business for employment.
• Link your business with digital training opportunities, enabling your workforce to acquire the skills to become digitally connected.
• Support your talent acquisition through recruitment events and promotion.
• Help simplify the process of managing an apprenticeship through the Governments digital account system.
• Help you to navigate through multiple training offers by providing one-stop advice, bespoke to your business needs.
• Identify and help you access any financial support available from the Government.
• Connect you with leadership and management training to enable you to lead, inspire and nurture your workforce.
• Benefit your business by saving your time, making the right contacts, simplifying the processes and helping you recruit apprentices who are right for your business.

Talk to us and let us take the work out of meeting your skills needs.

Phone: 01772 625567

Apprentice Factory 

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers businesses impartial advice and support in finding the best skills solutions for their workforce. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce.