PM’s Apprenticeship Advisor visits Carillion’s new recruits

Apprenticeship Advisor to the Prime Minister, Richard Harrington MP has met with Carillion’s new apprentice recruits, who are due to begin a 15-month carpentry apprenticeship programme.

Carillion Construction Limited, a leading integrated support services company, received funding totalling £7M from the Skills Funding Agency for the 2014 to 2015 funding year and is on schedule to make good on its commitment to create 5000 apprenticeships across its network of training centres by 2020.

Mr Harrington took a tour of Carillion’s Kings Cross training centre, which currently has 96 apprentices and is due to see this number increase following the September intake.

The centre provides training, apprenticeships, employment advice and job opportunities to local people seeking gain in the construction industry. The apprenticeships offered are in general construction, ground works, carpentry and joinery, plastering and dry lining.

Richard Harrington MP, the Prime Minister’s Advisor on Apprenticeships said:“I congratulate those 25 young people who joined Carillion on Monday and are in the process of completing their first week in work. I have always been a strong supporter of apprenticeships.

“It is crucial that we continue to support the growth of high quality apprenticeships across the country and I welcome the work Carillion has done at Kings Cross to make this possible. The apprentices I have met today have shown great enthusiasm in their new apprenticeship courses and I wish them the best of luck in their future careers.”

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