Powering the Engine campaign aims to protect apprentices

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In-Comm Training has launched Powering the Engine, a campaign to protect apprenticeships as manufacturers seek to find ways of coping with Covid-19.

The training provider operates three academies at Aldridge, Bridgnorth and Shropshire and is asking firms in the West Midlands to sign-up to its Skills Pledge, which will see them commit to supporting apprentices, raising the profile of vocational learning and ‘upskilling’ their workforces.

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‘Powering the Engine’ has been designed to ensure that industry does not sacrifice its investment into developing the talent they will to need to help reignite the economy now that lockdown is easing.

Eight companies have already taken one of the pledges, including Brandauer, CHH Conex, Glassworks Hounsell, Gotronic, Holbourne Industrial Plastics, Kiyokuni Europe, MET Recruitment and Valen Fittings.

In a statement Bekki Phillips, Managing Director of In-Comm Training, said: “The impact of Covid-19 has turned the economy upside down and many firms are trying to work out how they navigate their way through the crisis, making a lot of tough decisions in the process.

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