{"id":13879,"date":"2016-01-29T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=13879"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:22:29","slug":"equalities-funding-available-to-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/01\/29\/equalities-funding-available-to-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Equalities Funding available to employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"preamble\">A fund to help employers recruit more Modern <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-13881 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2016\/01\/PWP_1937-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"PWP_1937\" width=\"155\" height=\"233\" \/>Apprentices from diverse backgrounds has been launched by Skills Development Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Employers\u2019 Equality Action Fund offers grants of between \u00a33000 and \u00a310,000 to private, public and voluntary sector employers to run pilot projects aimed at improving access to Modern Apprenticeships amongst under-represented groups.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the fund is to encourage innovative and pro-active approaches to increasing uptake of Modern Apprenticeships amongst young people who are either from a black or minority ethnic community,\u00a0 have a disability or have a care background.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is also aimed at encouraging more young men and women to consider a Modern Apprenticeship in an occupation traditionally considered as being dominated by the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>More information available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk\/news-events\/2016\/january\/equalities-funding-on-offer-to-employers\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fund to help employers recruit more Modern Apprentices from diverse backgrounds has been launched by Skills Development Scotland. The Employers\u2019 Equality Action Fund offers grants of between \u00a33000 and \u00a310,000 to private, public and voluntary sector employers to run pilot projects aimed at improving access to Modern Apprenticeships amongst under-represented groups. The aim of the fund is to encourage innovative and pro-active approaches to increasing uptake of Modern Apprenticeships<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/01\/29\/equalities-funding-available-to-employers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,39,32],"tags":[115,54,70],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inclusion-and-equality","category-skills","category-supporting-learners","tag-diversity-and-equality","tag-dyw","tag-funding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}