Adult apprenticeships on the increase
The Apprenticeship Programme is the gold standard vocational qualification, having quadrupled the number of adult apprenticeships in the four years preceding 2010-11.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) spent £451 million on the Adult Apprenticeships programme, ‘Adult Apprenticeships’ (HC 1875) examines the progress it has made.
New Work Programme to help long-term unemployed
The new ‘Work Programme’ from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) replaces virtually all previous welfare to work schemes. .
‘Department for Work and Pensions: The Introduction of the Work Programme’ (HC 1814) looks at the impact of the Programme designed to help the long-term unemployed find sustainable jobs.
Strategy needed to safeguard food supplies
More people are eating meat and dairy, and the climate is becoming less stable as a result of deforestation and the use of fossil fuels.
‘Sustainable Food' (HC 879) examines the steps Government may take to relieve the pressures of food consumption created in the face of an increasing global population.