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
Dual investment in people and technology paying off
Industrial steel processor Marcegaglia is making “remarkable strides” in investing in its people and skills, it says.
Huge rise in apprenticeship success rates over past year
The number of learners successfully completing apprenticeships has risen, according to new figures from the government.
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.
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