Businesses
The skills of our people are a vital national asset. Skills help businesses achieve the productivity, innovation and profitability needed to compete.
Why should you want a skilled workforce? Skilled workers are:
- better able to adapt quickly and effectively to change
- better at implementing new investments and innovation
Investment in skills means greater profitability. Evidence from the US suggests that companies making large investments in training show greater returns than the market average. In addition, recent evidence shows that the more productive UK firms hire more skilled workers.
So where do you start? Within this website you will find information on many areas of skills and training, either for new recruits or developing your existing workforce.
Also in this section...
- Keep up to date with the latest information and training for industry regulations
- From 6 April 2007 the current Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is due to be replaced by a New CIS. The new Scheme will remove some of the administrative burden and provide alternatives to the paper based processes of CIS. Guidance on the New Construction Industry Scheme (New-CIS), consisting of a detailed booklet and nine fact sheets, is available from the link below.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/new-cis/new_guidance.htm
