Skills needed if Spending Review plans are to become reality

The Chancellor has promised a surge in skills funding to get a million young people into training by the end of the Parliament, as part of a wider push to plug critical labour gaps and power up Britain’s energy transition.Rachel Reeves used the Spending Review to unveil a £1.2 billion a year package by 2028–29 – the biggest investment in post-16 training in over a decade.
The Treasury says this will support an extra 65,000 learners a year, mainly through apprenticeships a