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You can find a Final Progress Update report for the Fund summarising its impacts here: Promoting-Equality-and-Cohesion-Fund-Final-Report-Jan-Sep-2021-for-SG-publication.pdf S6W-38341
No wonder Borders College and others have criticised the decision to axe the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund and other support to get more skilled workers into the workplace.
Let us be clear: we do not have an entirely new workforce or the funding for an entirely new temporary three-month workforce that can then all go back to hospitality for example.
Analysis could link eligibility criteria for other things relevant to low-income families such as funded childcare, so as to best target concessionary travel offers to the groups most in need of extra support.
Local authorities and electric vehicle charging: the public electric vehicle charging fund which provides funding to local authorities was criticised as it is challenging for business to apply for funding from 32 (number of local authorities) places.