City Hall skills bootcamps to receive £27m funding boost

Government cash for London 'skills bootcamps' welcomed by Khan

The bootcamps will take the form of flexible courses focused on eleven ‘priority sectors’ identified in the mayor’s London Growth Plan

City Hall skills bootcamps to receive £27m funding boost

City Hall is set to receive a funding boost of £27m for a skills bootcamp programme for Londoners, Sir Sadiq Khan has announced. The mayor of London has welcomed the funding from the Department for Education (DfE) which represents a 25 per cent annual uplift for the programme of flexible courses, across some 7,700 trainees, aimed at supporting workers and providing skills training to employers. It’s also a 42 per cent increase since the DfE firs…