09 February 2021 Policy and Practice round-up February 2021 This month we bring you news of children’s poor mental health and the impact of the pandemic on their future earnings; Children’s Mental Health week from the Place2Be; the interim government response to the Augar Report; the removal of gateway providers for Kickstart Scheme grants; 55,000 job losses in the creative industries; and the Edge Foundation’s first Skills Shortage Bulletin of 2021.
05 February 2021 Skills for Jobs White Paper on post-16 technical education On 21 January the Department for Education’s White paper Skills for Jobs was published with the promise it will ‘reform further education so it supports people to get the skills our economy needs throughout their lives’.