New construction training course launches in Pudsey – West Leeds Dispatch

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Vocational training provider Building Futures Together (BFT) has welcomed its first cohort of students onto a new advanced construction course for 16 to 19-year-olds.

Pudsey-based BFT, which supports young people, including students who are struggling in school or are missing from education, gain hands-on construction experience, has introduced the new provision due to a shortage of further education opportunities, especially apprenticeships.

The launch coincides with post-16 specialists Think, reporting that high demand for college places, especially in Leeds, risks hampering efforts to reduce the number of 16 to 18s not in education, employment or training (NEETs).

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