1 October 2009
Many companies are too strapped for cash to train any more staff on the Train to Gain programme, training providers have said.
The Association of Learning Providers, which represents providers of the scheme, warned that companies would be unable to start work on the programme until next April.
Chief executive Graham Hoyle said: ‘‘With businesses needing to be competitive to fight their way out of the recession, it seems strange, and potentially damaging to the economy, that many can go a whole year without being able to start workers on the government’s flagship training scheme.’
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said it was ‘crucial’ that the programme stayed within its budget.
Many companies are too strapped for cash to train any more staff on the Train to Gain programme, training providers have said.
The Association of Learning Providers, which represents providers of the scheme, warned that companies would be unable to start work on the programme until next April.
Chief executive Graham Hoyle said: ‘‘With businesses needing to be competitive to fight their way out of the recession, it seems strange, and potentially damaging to the economy, that many can go a whole year without being able to start workers on the government’s flagship training scheme.’
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said it was ‘crucial’ that the programme stayed within its budget.
