Electrical sector welcomes PM’s apprenticeship announcements, but calls for more actionable detail

Leading electrotechnical and engineering services trade body ECA has broadly welcomed today’s pledge by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to create up to 20,000 more apprenticeships with a series of reforms to funding and bureaucracy.
While ECA welcomes the removal of the co-funding requirement for SMEs recruiting apprentices aged 21 or under, the association says the resultant saving of just £2,000 over 4 years isn’t likely to sway many more small electrical contracting firms into sh