- National Employer Service
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The National Employer Service (NES) is service of the Skills Funding Agency. Its purpose is to offer specialist advice and funding for further education to national, multi-site employers with more than 5000 employees.
The service currently works with 150 companies including BT Group, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Mcdonald's.
First established in 2003 as the National Contracting Service, its role has evolved from centrally delivering government funding towards working in partnership with large employers, providing specialist advice on the development of large scale work-based training programmes.
This co-investment approach to frontline training involves channeling any public investment to areas where it delivers the greatest value for money and catalyses the skilled jobs needed in the British economy of the future.
In a speech on the subject, the Conservative party leader David Cameron incorrectly identified the National Employer Service as a Quango in its own right.[1]
The National Employer Service is based at the Skills Funding Agency's national office in Cheylesmore House, Cheylesmore, Coventry. It is one of a number of specialist services housed within the agency.
See also
- Learning and Skills Council
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Lifelong learning
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
- Vocational education
References
External links
Categories:- Education in England
- Non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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