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Skills Taskforcemade up of representatives fromindustry, trade unions and Government – led by the Business Department –would go a longway to protecting the essential skills of the futurewithin the sector.
“A programme to redeploy those highly skilledworkersmade redundant during COVIDwould safeguardmanufacturing for the future, and help the sector retain hard- won talent as the country begins the hard work of economic recovery.
“Apprenticeships too are in danger of becoming another casualty -with companies already reducing or cancelling their training programmes altogether. Apprentices are the future, andwithout those skilledworkers the countrywill not be able to take advantage of any upturnwhen it happens.”
FrancesO’Grady, General Secretary of the TUC said:
“Workers are going to facemassive economic challenges in themonths ahead and it is often youngworkers and apprenticeswho experience theworst impact.
It is critical that the government listens to this call to act urgently to support current apprentices to complete their programmes and to enable employers to continue to provide high quality apprenticeship opportunities.”
IanWaddell General Secretary CSEU commented:
“Apprentices currently in trainingmust be allowed to complete their apprenticeships and get their qualifications.
Equally, potential long termdamagewill be
done to the economy by the loss of thousands of skilledworkerswho face losing their jobs through no fault of their own andwho have skills thatwould enable themto retrain in areas of the economy thatwill be vital in the economic recovery.
Theseworkers have invested their lives in
engineering, science andmanufacturing and theymust not be cast aside.”
AnnWatson, CEOof Enginuity added:
“Themanufacturing sector is at a pivotal moment in its ability to bounce back fromthe economic impact that the lockdown has brought. It is vital thatwe take collective action nowto ensure that experienced engineers are not lost fromthe economy and that for our young people and economic future that apprenticeships are protected to the full.”
DALROD launch Bath & Swindon Service Centre
The Bath & Swindon service centrewill be directed by James &Mandy Kelly. James has 23 years of experience in the landscaping industry, he spent ten years as a commercial manager andwas also amanaging director in a previous company. James certainly brings a vast amount ofmanagerial experience to theDALRODteam.
James andMandy heard about DALROD through a friend, after looking into opportunities to own their own business. They met DALROD GeneralManager, Jon Kynaston, whomade themfeel very comfortable and showcased the ethos of the company’s values.
“Jonwas relaxed and extremely knowledgeable. Everything he saidwaswhat wewere looking for in an opportunity to start our own business. I thinkwe’remuchmore suited to the family ethos than a huge corporate company, and DALROD certainly ticks that box.” James said.
James andMandy had a good amount of time to plan and consider howtheywant their business to look and nowhave a clear plan of where theywant the business to go over the next fewyears.
“We have a ten-year plan, to growthe business as quickly aswe can. But the biggest thing for us is thatwewant to build a business that people believe in and onewhich delivers the best customer service. I’ve seen toomuch poor customer service throughoutmy career, and I’mdetermined to get it right inmy
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James is ready for your call to solve your drainage problems
business.” Said James.
James andMandy recently underwent the onboarding process at DALROD. Theweek- long event covers a range of different aspects to give newDirectors all the tools and knowledge they need to hit the ground running in their respective territories. Throughout theweek, the DAL Academy covers CRM, finance,marketing, sales, business growth, health and safety and also looks at the operational aspect of the job, but in a classroomsetting. Once this has been completed, Jameswas then ready to embark
on a fourweek on the job training programme with our dedicated operational trainer – Stuart Dane.
“Itwas a greatweek. Itwas fresh; different compared towhat I’ve seen and done in the last two years inmy previous job. Itwas interesting to see howa different business does onboarding and I got a lot of value from meeting other service centre directors.” James said.
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