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Don’t let workforce skills gaps hold back your business growth

We’ve helped hundreds of organisations transform their workforce performance through proven, industry-led solutions.

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Discover what skills gaps are costing your business with our free Strategic Skills Review and get a customised skills development roadmap. 

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Join the hundreds of organisations who’ve transformed their workforce with our proven solutions.


Why choose our workforce development solutions?

  • Proven results: Nearly 150-years of expertise with over 1-million learners trained annually 
  • Funding support: We navigate complex funding landscapes, so you don’t have to 
  • Trusted credentials: Globally recognised qualifications that employers value 
  • End-to-end support: From skills gap analysis to certification.  

Our solutions drive real business impact 

In-house training recognition – elevate your internal programmes  

Boost your in-house training programmes with our accreditation services, including Assured. By ensuring your programmes meet the City & Guilds standard of quality, you’ll improve engagement, retention and build trust. 

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  • Quality assurance: Meet recognised industry standards for design, delivery and assessment of your training  
  • Benchmarked against rigorous, global standards by a trusted partner  
  • Enhanced credibility: Build employee and stakeholder confidence in your programmes 

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Construction skills – access £600m government funding

Leading construction companies are using government funding to future-proof their workforce. Don’t get left behind.

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Strategic Skills Review

These free and accessible sessions led by our L&D experts are designed to explore your talent development challenges and opportunities, and to support you in creating your skills development strategic roadmap.           

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In-house training recognition

Boost your in-house training programmes with our accreditation services, including Assured. By ensuring your programmes meet the City & Guilds standard of quality, you’ll improve engagement, retention and build trust.

Find out more about Assured
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Technical training delivery

Find out how we can train your staff, deliver at scale across the UK and partner with you to develop regional programmes that support your CSR strategies, across rail, engineering, infrastructure and electrical skills.                      

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Building and developing a high-performing workforce

Discover our skills solutions to build and support your talent

Funded training solutions 

Are you struggling to find budget for training, or under-utilising your apprenticeship levy? We’ve helped companies like yours unlock training funding.

We know the funding landscape can be complex to navigate, and organisations can find funded training options difficult to access or make good use of. Learn more about available options and how we can support you below.

Transform your apprenticeship levy into high-impact skills development

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Leadership development - build leaders who drive results

With the rapid pace of workplace change and transformation required for businesses to stay relevant, we can work with you to ensure your leaders and managers are best equipped to lead their people and drive your business forward. With over 60 years of expertise through ILM and The Oxford Group, both part of City & Guilds, we’ve developed leaders at countless organisations. 

 

Leadership and management qualifications, with proven ROI

Tailored leadership and coaching programmes that deliver results.

                                               

Technical training delivery – scale your skills development 

Find out how we can train your staff, deliver at scale across the UK and partner with you to develop regional programmes that support your CSR strategies, across rail, engineering, infrastructure, electrical and construction. 

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  • National delivery: Consistent, high-quality training across the UK 
  • Industry expertise: Specialised programmes in rail, engineering, construction, infrastructure and project management. 
  • CSR partnership: Develop regional programmes that support your sustainability goals  

Verify and showcase skills with certificates and credentials

advance technical digital credential City & Guilds qualifications and programmes are trusted by employers around the world, and equip millions of learners every year with the skills they need to get on the job, and progress in the job.

To ensure you can verify achievements and surface skills within your organisation, we issue secure and verifiable certificates and digital credentials to successful learners upon completion.

Ready to transform your worforce?

    Book your free Strategic Skills Review and discover:

  • Which skills gaps are costing your business money
  • How you can unlock funding for your training
  • A customised skills development roadmap for y/our organisation.

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Partner with us to shape the future of skills

As a purpose-led organisation, we believe in the power of collaboration to drive meaningful change in skills development.

Specialist knowledge from employer organisations like yours plays a critical role in ensuring skills solutions are fit for the future, which benefits both the learner experience and the impact their development has on your business. There are many ways you can get involved, including:

  • Support with qualification development and validation
  • Become a member of the Employer Industry Board (EIB)
  • Associate roles, such as examiners, moderators, independent end-point assessors, external quality assurers and external assessors
  • Join the conversation with our industry-led events

Work with us to ensure the skills individuals are learning are relevant to your industry and the needs of your business.

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Explore the evolving landscape of neurodiversity in the workplace, including support systems, trends and challenges.

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