Bids welcomed for council job training

10 June 2009

London and Home Counties local authorities are invited to join a combined bid for Government funding for a new in-house transport job-training scheme, closing on 30 June.

The scheme aims to help transport departments find their own talent and reduce dependence on agency staff. Findings reveal that councils can pay twice the cost of transport full-timers when hiring contract personnel (Surveyor, 4 June 2009).

Co-ordinating bid responses is transport consultant John David, who explained the rationale of his Amnick training initiative in the same issue of Surveyor. He is asking for responses by 25 June.

Councils must commit their departments to take on at least 10 trainees for a minimum of five months, following a month’s pre-training by Amnick. Recruits will receive the national minimum wage and the Department for Work and Pensions’ aims to generate 150,000 posts for unemployed 18-24 year olds. It plans to announce winning bids in mid-August.

@: johndavid@totalise.co.uk

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