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Train to Gain Programme: North East

Answer

In England, between August 2008 and March 2009, 39,700 employers were engaged through the Train to Gain Skills Brokerage Service. This was replaced in April 2009 by the Business Link Integrated Brokerage Service, which recorded 16,100 employer engagements between April and July 2009¹. Table 1 shows Train to Gain starts by (i) Hartlepool parliamentary constituency (ii) Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington and Redcar and Cleveland, local authorities which comprise the Tees Valley sub region and (iii) the North East Government office region for the 2005/06 to 2008/09 academic year, the latest year for which full year data is available. Final full year Train to Gain data for 2009/10, released as part of a Statistical First Release, is normally expected to be available in December 2010. Investment in further education and skills for the financial year 11-12 onwards will be subject to the spending review."¹ The number of employer engagements represents the number of employers who have engaged with the Brokerage Service. It does not represent the number of employers with employees learning on the Train to Gain programme."

Table 1: Train to Gain starts by Geography, 2005/06 to 2008/09
	2005/06¹	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09²
Hartlepool parliamentary constituency/local authority	100	500	700	2,300
Redcar and Cleveland local authority	200	1,000	1,200	3,100
Middlesbrough local authority	200	900	1,200	3,700
Stockton-on-Tees local authority	200	1,000	1,300	4,500
Darlington local authority	100	500	700	2,300
Tees Valley sub region	800	3,900	5,000	15,800
North East Government office region	3,500	15,200	19,800	75,800
¹ April to August.
² Figures for 2008/09 are not comparable with earlier years as in 2008/09 NVQs delivered in the workplace previously funded by FE are now funded by Train to Gain. There were 181,000 starts and 132,000 achievements in NVQs delivered in the workplace in 2007/08.
Notes:
1. Parliamentary constituency, local authority and regional figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
2. The full-year numbers are a count of the number of starts at any point during the year. Learners starting more than one course will appear more than once.
3. Government office region, local authority and parliamentary constituency is based upon the home postcode of the learner.
4. Tees Valley sub region is comprised of Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington local authorities. Figures for Tees Valley sub region are based on the sum of unrounded data for these local authorities.
Source:
Individualised Learner Record

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2594; 511 c459-60W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

North East Train to gain programme

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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