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Royal Mail
is set to deliver 30 Apprenticeships in Scotland after receiving funding
from the
Scottish Executive.
Royal Mail has been running apprenticeships in England
and Wales for 311 young people and is now rolling out the scheme throughout
its sites in Scotland.
Royal Mail is set to
deliver 30 Apprenticeships in Scotland after receiving funding from the
Scottish Executive through Scottish Enterprise.
Royal Mail has been running apprenticeships in England and Wales for 311
young people and is now rolling out the scheme throughout its sites in
Scotland. The Scottish Executive has contributed £75,000 to the project.
The Apprenticeship qualification has been developed with UK-based Skills for
Logistics. It provides candidates with a Scottish Vocational Qualification
(SVQ) Level 2 in Mail Services and is specifically aimed at employees
dealing with the collection, delivery and processing of mail.
Ian McKay, Director of Scottish Affairs with Royal Mail Group, said: “We are
very pleased that our Apprenticeship scheme will now be available to young
people in Scotland and I look forward to welcoming those young recruits
through our doors.
“Royal Mail Group is one of Scotland's largest employers, supporting
directly and indirectly around 1% of the Scottish workforce. We feel that
successful Apprenticeship and training schemes like ours will add to the
Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise's efforts to achieve their policy
goal of a 'Smart Successful Scotland’. I am also sure that this scheme will
continue to grow in our sites in Scotland."
Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning,
said: "It’s great to see Royal Mail offering this apprenticeship and
creating real opportunities for young people in Scotland. This strong
commitment to training from Royal Mail coupled with funding support from
Skillseekers will help ensure the talents of our workforce meet the needs of
our employers."
Royal Mail aims to use Apprenticeships to:
• Attract, develop and retain high-calibre postmen and women and managers of
the future.
• Improve the organisation’s retention rate and decrease absenteeism.
• Develop and increase a competitive culture at the front line.
• Improve workforce diversity in terms of age, gender and ethnicity.
• Encourage more people to consider a career in Royal Mail and by becoming
an employer of choice.
Dr Mick Jackson, Director of Skills Development at Skills for Logistics,
which will deliver the scheme for Royal Mail, said: “Skills for Logistics is
delighted that Royal Mail will be extending its Apprenticeship scheme by
delivering it in Scotland.
“With a focus on increasing the level of skills across the UK through
vocational training, it is important that employers are able to train new
recruits directly in line with the job requirements. Through the Mail
Services Apprenticeship individuals are offered a real insight into working
for Royal Mail by developing skills vital to the job they will be
undertaking.”
Notes:
About Royal
Mail
Royal Mail Group is unique in reaching everyone in the UK through its mails,
Post Office® and parcels businesses which directly employ almost 193,000
people in the UK and 16,800 people in Scotland.
Every working day Royal Mail collects, processes and delivers around 84
million items to 27 million addresses for prices that are amongst the lowest
in Europe. In Scotland, the business deals with 40 million items in a week
to 2.5 million addresses. Each week we serve nearly 24 million customers
through our network of 14,376 Post Office® branches (1676 branches in
Scotland). Each year our domestic and European parcels businesses, General
Logistics Systems and Parcelforce Worldwide deliver some 337 million
parcels.
www.royalmail.com
About Skills
for Logistics
Skills for Logistics is the Sector Skills Council for the freight logistics
industries. It is a registered charity and an independent, UK-wide
organisation run for employers, by employers, to tackle the skills and
productivity needs of the logistics sector. It is owned and led by the
industry and has the active backing of over 100 of the UK's top freight
transport businesses as well as the leading trade bodies and Trade Unions.
The British Association of Removers,
the British International Freight Association, the Despatch Association, the
Freight Transport Association, the Road Haulage Association, the Transport
and General Workers Union, the UK Warehousing Association and the United
Road Transport Union all support the organisation.
Skills for Logistics is part of the Skills for Business Network. Its'
programmes include the Young LGV Driver Scheme, the Scottish Driver Training
Scheme and Apprenticeships for a wide range of occupations across the
sector. For further information please visit
www.skillsforlogistics.org.
About the
Skills for Business Network
Skills for Business is an employer-led network consisting of 25 Sector
Skills Councils and the Sector Skills Development Agency. Through its
unrivalled labour market intelligence and its insights from the employers in
all sectors of the UK economy, the network identifies change needed in
policy and practice relating to education and skills development. With the
influence granted by licences from the governments of England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland, and with private and public funding, this
independent network engages with the education and training supply-side,
such as universities, colleges, funders and qualifications bodies, to
increase productivity at all levels in the workforce.
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