£8.5m drive to bridge Cumbria skills and labour shortage
An £8.5m campaign isbeing launched today (Monday, September 4) to tackle a looming skills and labour shortage in Cumbria.
Businesses must recruit 80,300 workers by 2021 to replace those retiring or leaving, and to fill newly-created jobs.
Some 40% of these will need to be educated at Level 4 or above. At present, only 28 per cent of the county’s working-age population is qualified to this level.
Profiting Through Skills aims to help businesses train apprentices and upskill their existing workforce.
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