Creating new apprenticeships
Creating new apprenticeships
Working with employers and training providers, we promote the apprenticeship brand while improving skills and employment opportunities across the region.
Celebrating success
The Ladder for the Black Country Apprenticeship Awards return for their third edition in November – and we want to hear from you by submitting your success stories as entries.
The awards are backed by the Express & Star and Compass UK and Ireland, our headline sponsor. Entries for the 13 categories are now open with the deadline September 13.
The awards will be taking place this year at West Bromwich Albion’s Hawthorns ground on November 13. Make sure you enter to celebrate the best of our region’s apprentice success stories.
We bring candidates and training providers together with employers
We bring candidates and training providers together with employers
What can we help with?
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The Ladder website offers extensive information on the opportunities available, whether you are a candidate looking at apprenticeships, an employer considering the apprentice route or a training provider ready to offer support.
Working to upskill the region
Launched in 2014, the Ladder for the Black Country has helped thousands of people into work, got hundreds of employers engaged with apprenticeships and provided expert support for training providers, as well as schools and colleges.
Leading local publisher Midland News Association teamed up with community development group The Vine Trust and training provider Performance Through People, along with leading public and private sector orgnanisations, to deliver the campaign to secure new futures for people across the four areas.
Working to upskill the region
Launched in 2014, the Ladder for the Black Country has helped thousands of people into work, got hundreds of employers engaged with apprenticeships and provided expert support for training providers, as well as schools and colleges.
Leading local publisher Midland News Association teamed up with community development group The Vine Trust and training provider Performance Through People, along with leading public and private sector orgnanisations, to deliver the campaign to secure new futures for people across the four areas.
Latest News
Black Country firm’s ‘pipeline to success’ is recognised
Black Country firm Marcegaglia were named winners at the West Midlands and Warwickshire Skills Awards in the excellence in skills partnership category.
Exciting opportunity to help students find future careers
Secondary schools in the West Midlands are being offered the opportunity to bring their Year 9 and year 10 plus year 11 and 13 students to the Find Your Future Career programme at the Ladder Skills Academy in Millennium Point, Birmingham.
Embrace your future with power of apprenticeships
National Careers Week is the perfect time to explore the diverse opportunities that apprenticeships offer.
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