OVER 20,000 apprenticeships will be created in hospitals, schools and town halls across the country in 2009-10, the Government announced today.
Ministers also pledged that all construction firms involved in the schools rebuilding programme would be required to take on apprentices.
The public sector employs 20% of the national workforce but currently offers fewer than one in ten apprenticeships.
The 21,000 apprenticeships announced today include an extra 5,000 places in the NHS, 7,500 in local government and 4,500 in schools and children’s services.
In addition, all construction firms winning contracts for the Building Schools for the Future scheme will have to provide formal training programmes.
This will create an extra 1,000 apprenticeships from June 2009, including posts in construction, IT and facilities management.
