Issue 53, November 2020

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The 16 to 19 tuition fund is £96m of one-off funding for the 2020 to 2021 academic year. It is ring fenced funding for schools, colleges and all other 16 to 19 providers to deal with the disruption to learning arising from coronavirus (COVID-19). It is to be used to support small group tuition for 16 to 19 students in English, maths, and other courses where learning has been disrupted. For example, vocational courses where assessment has been deferred because of lockdown. The actual tuition does not need to be for GCSE English or maths, the students supported all need to be those who did not achieve grade 5 or above in at least one of those subjects at this level by age 16. All supported students must be on a 16 to 19 study programme and providers should prioritise those that did not achieve a grade 4 in English or maths (GOV 09/09/20). For more information W: www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-funding-16-to-19-tuition-fund

C&K Careers staff have undertaken their first National Centre for Diversity course – FREDIE (fairness, respect, equality, diversity, inclusion and engagement) – the Basics. The courses use interactive questions and videos in an interesting way. The ‘Basics’ course begins by explaining Equality the meaning of each aspect of FREDIE and then checks to see you have understood what these are. It explains why and FREDIE is good for organisations, as well as individuals: Diversity • ‘71% of business executives said employee engagement was critical to their organisations’ success’ • Organisations with ‘high employee engagement scores are 22% more profitable • Sickness records of companies with ‘engaged employees’ have an average of 2.69 days off sick a year, compared with 6.19 days for companies with ‘disengaged employees’

1 The ‘Basics’ course participants looked at scenarios showing unfairness, disrespect, inequality, lack of diversity, exclusion and disengagement scenarios to help them think about the effect on individuals and their organisation. Participants are then taken through what could have been done to turn these situations around. It concludes that if one of the following – fairness, respect, equality, diversity, inclusion or engagement – is missing, you cannot have a truly inclusive culture. After all staff completed the course, they met with others in small groups to discuss what they got from it and to make suggestions for improvements within C&K Careers.

As a result of initial feedback from staff, some of our systems and processes have been changed to make them more flexible and user friendly. All current policies are being reviewed so that we only have the policies that we need and that these policies are applied in line with FREDIE principles. FREDIE has been incorporated into our business and training plan, and our appraisal process. FREDIE will also feature in our quarterly reporting to our board. Work is already underway to gather more information from our clients about how we may be able to meet their needs in other ways. We have also identified how we might strengthen our position in the local community, as well as through the information we share with our stakeholders. We will continue to update our progress in future issues of this newsletter.

Thinking outside COVID: creative and innovative solutions to running a business during the pandemic

Companies have been coming up with creative ideas to keep their business going as demand, delivery and production conditions have changed. Some of these changes are just aimed at getting them through the hardest times but others could be permanent and lead to new, permanent growth.

Nearly 50% more businesses were created in June 2020 than in June 2019, according to the Centre for Entrepreneurs. Some graduates are starting their own businesses after graduating in 2020, when the number of graduate vacancies has fallen significantly. Snackcess, was set up by three recent graduates, to provide gift boxes of healthy snacks for businesses to post to employees working at home. The boxes contain high-end, healthy, branded snacks, normally found in organic food stores. They used their studies to meet what they saw as a gap in the market - two studied nutrition, while the third had been working on the benefits of gift exchange in the workplace, as part of a project. Another graduate has started Sojo, a service delivering clothes for alteration. It employs 20 cyclists to collect clothes from people’s homes and take them to and from sewing shops in west for alterations, with plans to expand the business further. Alcuris, the developer of Memohub, an app that monitors social isolation, employs 15 people. Memohub is a telecare system that combines a certified social alarm system, activity monitoring, health device integration and carer logging in a single product. It has come into its own during the current crisis, helping monitor vulnerable individuals (BBC 07/10/20; NCUB 10/07/20).

Cafes and restaurants have faced particularly difficult conditions. Top end restaurants, for example the three star L’enclume, have come up with high standard takeaway meals that can be delivered locally or posted out. The 10pm curfew has made it difficult to get two sittings in, vital for restaurants to break even, so some are offering puddings, cheese and biscuits and coffee as takeaways, so customers can finish the evening at home.

Artisan food and drink producers are being creative, for example The Courtyard Dairy near Settle, has increased home delivery by offering ‘bundles’ of cheeses. Small pubs with microbreweries have turned their pubs into off-licences and are posting/delivering their brews out to customers.

An animal sanctuary is generating business by offering companies the chance to have a goat, llama or other farm animal appear at their zoom meetings, as a way of boosting moral and bringing a to attendees.

2 Care homes are losing residents, as families prefer to care for their elderly family members at home, so some are moving to a mix of residential and home care. The Black Dementia Company was launched during lockdown when its owner noticed that there were no relevant images or objects to help people from non-white backgrounds. People with dementia find it comforting to reminisce about the past, so this online company was set up to make and sell dementia care aids with cultural symbols aimed at people who grew up in Afro-Caribbean households (BBC 15/10/20).

Many gyms and fitness studios have moved classes online.

Careers professional issues and policy

 Careers resources

Careers resources

The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers is a new site showcasing employers committed to employing apprentices, their creation of new apprenticeships, the diversity of their new apprentices, and their apprentices' progression to further apprenticeships and employment. In future years, the site will list the previous year's top 100 employers, compiled by the National Apprenticeship Service in partnership with High Fliers Research W: www.topapprenticeshipemployers.co.uk and 2020 top 100

Amazing Apprenticeships has launched the 2020/21 ASK (Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge) for schools and colleges programme, which offers face-to-face or virtual support. There is a brochure and a short film explaining the ASK programme (AA 09/09/20).

The Primary Schools Toolkit has been launched by the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) W: www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/schools-colleges/primary-school-toolkit

Schools, colleges and education

 Qualifications  School news  Further education news  Higher education news  Lifelong learning

Qualifications

In , A level and GCSE exams due to be taken in 2021 will go ahead with reduced content for some subjects and start three weeks later than the usual mid-May, with the aim of making up for lost teaching time. Vocational courses are likely to follow a similar pattern. The OCR exam board has aligned many of its Cambridge Technicals and Cambridge Nationals exams with the A level and GCSE timetable. The government will announce further back-up plans later to cover 'all scenarios' (BBC 12/10/20; OCR 22/10/20).

3 BTEC qualifications in esports at level 2 and level 3 have been launched by Pearson in partnership with The British Esports Association W: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/campaigns/btec-esports.html For further information about esports, see issue 52 of our labour market and careers news, under Computers & IT below and W: https://britishesports.org/careers/

School news

Pupils in the north of England are facing the most disruption from COVID 19. The percentage of pupils attending primary and secondary schools across England, fell to 86% in the third week of October, down from 89% the previous week, according to the Department for Education (DfE). The DfE said 55% of secondaries and 20% of primaries in England reported having one or more pupils off school, self-isolating, rising from 46% and 16% respectively on the previous week. Attendance in secondary schools fell from 87% in the second week of October to 83% in the third week (BBC 27/10/20).

Around 150 of the 1,000 academic mentors promised as part of the government’s £1bn education catchup plans will be in schools in England by the end of 2020. The remaining 850 will be put in place in January and February 2021. The programme comes to an end in July 2021 (GD 08/10/20).

Further education news

Colleges and schools have begun teaching T Levels but enrolment is down 66% from the targets set by the government, according to early findings from an FE Week survey. The digital course has found it the hardest to recruit students (FEW 10/09/20).

New courses

The new Doncaster UTC, which offers engineering or creative & digital technologies, alongside the national curriculum, has exceeded its recruitment target of 160 students, with nearly double that number starting courses. There are three more UTCs planned Energy Coast UTC applied to open two colleges in Salford and Carlisle, and WMG Academy Trust, which already has two UTCs, has applied for another in Birmingham (FEW 11/09/20). W: www.doncasterutc.co.uk

Open days

Colleges and sixth forms in Calderdale and Kirklees: list of open days

Higher education news

Support for students who are in the unexpected position of deferring their place in 2020, the following support is available: • Healthcare support worker jobs to be opened to ALL students who need to defer their studies, they include healthcare assistants, and clinical support staff who would work with nurses and midwives to look after the well-being and comfort of patients • Paid tutoring jobs with some National Tutoring Programme • 1,000 additional places as university officer cadets with the Ministry of Defence • Work experience placements with Network Rail in engineering or operations management

4 • Ministry of Justice is exploring the potential to expand the current offer of placements in Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that extend beyond three months • 100 fast stream and early talent schools team places offering a one week virtual work experience opportunity that is based around a fictional scenario • Dedicated seminar programme • Volunteering as special constables As well as other volunteering and private sector opportunities. For more information W: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/package-of-support-for-students-who-have-to-defer- their-studies/package-of-support-for-students-who-have-to-defer-their-studies

New courses

University of Huddersfield: Speech and Language Therapy BSc Hons; Paramedic Science BSc Hons, both courses start September 2021. Foundation Degree Nursing Associate, two-year full-time course for those who haven’t studied level 3 qualifications. Intakes January 2021 and June 2021.

Open days

University of Huddersfield: Saturday 7 November 2020; Saturday 5 December 2020. Both are online. For more information and to book W: www.hud.ac.uk/open-days/undergraduate/. Also Covid- secure real life campus tours. For more information and to book W: www.hud.ac.uk/open-days/campus-tours/

Lifelong learning

Pioneer Higher Skills Centre opens in Dewsbury in November to increase the skills of local people, by supporting them to gain higher work skills and higher education qualifications to improve their career prospects. The centre has an art workshop, fashion and textiles studio, science labs, classrooms and IT suites, as well as a learning resource centre and social spaces (YBI 27/10/20).

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has received funding to increase its learning and participation provision from Autumn 2020 to March 2021 and put on its festival. The learning opportunities ensure that it's creating opportunities for the local community. The festival is one of the UK’s foremost festivals dedicated to contemporary and experimental music W: https://hcmf.co.uk/learning-participation/

From April 2021, adults in England without an A level or equivalent qualification will be offered a fully funded college course. Courses in the scheme to be announced in October (BBC 29/09/20).

Employment and training

 Apprenticeships and training  Employment initiatives  Unemployment  Employment rights

5  Health problems/disability  Work trends national  Work trends regional  Focus on Calderdale & Kirklees

Apprenticeships and training

The next National Apprenticeship Week will take place between Monday 8 to Saturday 14 February 2021.

Learning for life: funding a world-class adult education system, has been published by The Confederation of British Industry (CBI). In the report, the CBI calls for a more flexible apprenticeship levy and training system to meet businesses future needs. The report says that by 2030, 90% of the working population will need new skills (FEW 19/10/20).

The digital skills bootcamps, announced as part of the prime minister’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, will initially be funded by the Department for Education’s (DfE) unallocated resources. From April 2021, digital bootcamps and further expansion to include sectors such as construction and engineering, will be paid for using the National Skills Fund (FEW 16/10/20).

Employment initiatives

Job Entry Targeted Support (JETS) will be offering coaching and advice on moving into 'growing sectors' to jobseekers aged over 25, as part of the government's £238m employment programme. The Department for Work and Pensions is recruiting an additional 13,500 'work coaches' to help deliver the new scheme. Jobseekers will learn how their skills can be used in growing sectors, such as 'construction and care' (BBC 05/10/20).

Unemployment

Employees on the various schemes introduced as a result of the COVID crisis, may also be able to claim some additional support via Universal Credit (BBC Radio 4 14/10/20).

Employment rights

The CBI, Britain's biggest business lobby group, has launched a campaign to get at least one minority ethnic person on to every FTSE 100 board and every FTSE 250 board by 2024. The lack of black and minority ethnic people at the top in business is a big part of why black and minority ethnic staff face discrimination and racism. Over 33% of the biggest listed UK businesses' boards are still all white, rising to around 66% in smaller public companies (BBC 14/10/20).

Health problems/disability

The Video Relay Service (VRS), which helps people who have hearing and speech difficulties, has been extended and is now available for people claiming help via the Social Fund, the government scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet on a low income and include budgeting loans and short term benefit advances (T 02/10/20). 6 Work trends national

The unemployment rate rose to 4.5% in the three months to August - the highest level in three years, compared with 4.1% in the previous quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The employment rate for June to August 2020 is 32.59m people aged 16 years and over in work, 102,000 fewer than in the same period in 2019 and 153,000 fewer than the previous three months. Overall employment is down around 0.5m since the pandemic began. Some groups have been disproportionally more affected, including young people and hospitality workers - around 300,000 of those out of work are aged between 16 and 24, accounting for about 60% of the fall in employment. An estimated 1.5m people were unemployed between June and August and redundancies were 227,000. By July, around 695,000 UK workers had disappeared from the payrolls of British companies since March. The UK economy grew by 6.6% in July, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) the third month in a row to show growth but it was still 11.7% smaller than it was in February 2020 (BBC 13/10/20; 11/09/20; 15/09/20). The government Research Briefing on Coronavirus, looks at the evolving impact on the labour market W: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8898/

Employers in Britain were planning more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession, according to figures obtained by an Institute for Employment Studies (IES) Freedom of Information request. Around 180,000 job cuts were planned from January to March 2009 but from May to July 2020, 380,000 were planned. Actual redundancies could reach 735,000 by the end of this autumn (BBC 14/09/20).

Around 19% of 18 to 24 year olds who were furloughed during lockdown were unemployed in September 2020, according to a survey of about 6,000 adults by the Resolution Foundation. Younger people were concentrated in sectors which had been worst affected by the pandemic such as hospitality and retail. The percentage for black, Asian and minority ethnic workers who were unemployed after being furloughed was 22%, compared with 9% for the general population. Finding a new job is harder than it was after the financial crash in 2008 (BBC 28/10/20).

The government announced a second lockdown and extension of the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) - furlough - until the end of March, to protect employees who cannot do their jobs, either because their workplace is closed or because there is no longer enough work for them. Under JRS, employees will receive 80% of their pay. Employers will be expected to pay their employees National Insurance and pension contributions, and the government will pay the remainder. Companies will also be able to claim up to £3,000 a month under the Local Restrictions Support Grant if their premises are made to close, £1,000 for every furloughed employee kept on until at least the end of January, £1,500 for every out of work 16 to 24 year-old given a 'high quality' six month work placement, £2,000 for every apprentice aged under 25 taken on until the end of January, or £1,500 for over 25s. People who are self-employed will be able to claim state aid of up to 80% of profits during the second lockdown, though a maximum will be imposed (BBC 03/11/20; BBC 03/11/20; BBC 05/11/20). For further details on the Job Retention Scheme W: www.gov.uk/government/news/furlough-scheme-extended-and-further-economic-support- announced

It is not yet clear, when the lockdown finishes on the 2 December or later, whether the Job Support Scheme (JSS) will be reintroduced for employees who have been on their work's payroll since 23 September. If it is re-introduced, JSS will be open to ALL small businesses and larger businesses that can show an impact on revenues, regardless of which tier it is in. For firms in tier 3 who must close, employers will pay 66.7% of an employee’s pay up to a maximum of £2,083.33 a month and reclaim this from the government – an employer can choose to pay more. Other firms in all tiers, who are facing reduced demand but remain open, can choose to keep their employees on a minimum of 20% of their hours and pay them for this work. The employees will also get 66.67% of their normal pay for the hours not worked – 5% from their employer and 61.67% up top a maximum of £1,541.75 a month funded by the government. Employees will therefore receive up to 73% of their 7 wage up to £3,125 a month. An employer can choose to pay more. Anyone on Job Support or Job Retention schemes can also apply for Universal Credit. In Tier Three areas pubs, bars, betting shops, leisure centres, casinos, adult gaming centres and soft play areas must close. Originally gyms were also supposed to close but they have now been allowed to remain open. The new rules will be in place until the 1 April 2021 but will be reviewed in January. Employers will be able to make a claim in arrears from 8 December 2020 (BBC 23/10/20; BBC 13/10/20). For further details on the future Job Support Scheme W: www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-job-support-scheme/the-job-support-scheme and on business support W: www.gov.uk/coronavirus/business-support

The 'Lifetime skills guarantee' has been announced by the government, to offer a fully-funded college course up to Level 3, to all people over 18 in England without an A level or equivalent qualification in 'skills valued by employers' - a list will be announced in November. Currently, only people aged under 23 qualify for a free college course. Colleges have suggested they may look at offering some one year level 3 courses, rather than the usual two year, to speed up training. The lifetime skills guarantee is part of the England's National Skills Fund, which will begin in April 2021. The government also intends to make higher education loans more flexible, to allow people to 'space out their study across their lifetimes'. The online Skills Toolkit, a collection of training resources, which was launched earlier in the year to help people gain jobs skills ahead of businesses reopening, will be expanded to include 62 additional courses. There will also be continued investment in college buildings and facilities. There will be a further education white paper at the end of 2020 outlining more of the details (BBC 29/09/20; Radio 4).

The Learning & Work Institute’s report suggests the need for the government to create 50,000 more jobs from increasing public investment and additional 270,000 jobs by investing £7.6bn in social care, childcare and adult learning. It also asks for the creation of 320,000 green jobs by investing £3bn in home energy efficiency, in addition to jobs created by Kickstart and the wage support scheme. Past recessions have taken up to seven years for employment to recover (L&W 22/09/20).

The UK is in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, which is the blurring of the physical, industrial and biological worlds. Artificial intelligence and robotics is increasingly used to do tasks previously done by humans; capture from social media/internet searches what you are interested in to target you with products and services; improve diagnosis, monitor your health and be used in surgery; drive you to a destination; monitor crops and decide what to do when. The internet of things will allow you to control your home from anywhere in the world. 3D printing is changing manufacturing in healthcare, aviation, aerospace, engineering, architecture, fashion …to quicken production, reduce costs and target individuals/groups. Big data examines large amounts of data to find hidden patterns and correlations to improve decisions and health treatments, and predict outcomes. The COVID pandemic has quickened the ‘revolution’ - accelerating the adoption of these technologies. It will reshape our lives, make us evaluate our values, relationships and the way we live, enabling us to prioritise living more sustainably, use less energy, reduce waste and increase recycling ( Digital Festival event, Future Tech, 21/09/20).

Around 74% of company's plan on maintaining the increase in home working, according to a survey of 958 firms by the Institute of Directors (IoD). Over 50% of firms planned on reducing their long-term use of workplaces (BBC 05/10/20).

The government's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has also recommended that care workers, butchers, bricklayers and welders should go on the UK's ‘shortage occupation list’. (BBC 29/09/20; Radio 4). The review of the full list W: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-shortage-occupation-list-2020

The graduate labour market has suffered significantly, particularly for arts graduates, as many UK arts organisations are badly affected by COVID restrictions. Many key graduate employment

8 sectors, such as health, social care, IT and finance have been much less affected than many other areas of the economy. Retail, hospitality, travel and accommodation employers are all struggling. The level of vacancies is running at about 50% to 60% of normal rates (P 25/10/20).

Catering & hospitality

Revolution Bars plans to close six of its 50 bars and renegotiate rent on seven others, with the loss of several jobs (YBI 27/10/20).

KFC, the fast food chain, is creating 5,400 jobs in the UK and Ireland by the end of 2020. Some of the new jobs will be for young people under the UK government's Kickstart scheme. KFC has 965 restaurants across the UK and Ireland (BBC 23/10/20).

Pret A Manger, the sandwich chain, is closing six more stores and cutting 400 more jobs, due to the latest COVID restrictions (BBC 17/10/20).

Marstons, the pub and brewery group, is cutting up to 2,150 furloughed jobs, after tighter new COVID restrictions were introduced. Since the first lockdown 10,000 of its employees had returned to work but new closures have resulted in employers having to make a larger contribution to staff pay (BBC 15/10/20).

Gourmet Burger Kitchen, the restaurant chain, has been bought out of administration by Boparan Restaurant Group, saving 669 jobs at 35 sites. The deal will see 26 restaurants close and 362 jobs cut (BBC 14/10/20).

Tim Hortons, the Canadian franchise fast food brand, plans to expand in the UK, creating up to 2,000 new jobs. It opened its first UK sites in 2017 and now has 23 locations, with its next site due to open in December 2020 in Milton Keynes. Many of Tim Hortons' sites are drive-thru takeaways (BBC 10/10/20).

Mitchells & Butlers (M&), the pubs and restaurants group, is planning to cut jobs in its branded chains, which include Harvester, All Bar One, Toby Carvery and O'Neill's. M&B has around 1,700 pubs and restaurants and 44,000 employees (BBC 12/10/20).

Greene King, the brewery and pub retailer, is cutting 800 jobs as a response to the loss of trade. It has closed 79 of its sites and expects and around 26 of these will stay closed (BBC 07/10/20).

Fuller's, the pub chain, is considering cutting up to 10% of its workforce, around 500 jobs (BBC 30/09/20).

Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and Beefeater, is planning up to 6,000 jobs. The cuts due to a slump in hotel guest numbers since lockdown. Around 75% of Whitbread's 35,000 staff are still paid in part through the government's furlough scheme, which is due to end in October (BBC 22/09/20).

Weatherspoons, the pub chain, is cutting up to 450 jobs at its pubs in Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Birmingham, and airports (DM 22/09/20).

Domino’s Pizza, Britain’s biggest pizza delivery chain, is creating 5,000 new jobs and supporting more than 1,000 placements in the government’s Kickstart scheme to meet the increase in takeaway demand. These are on top of the 6,000 new jobs created since the COVID crisis began (GD 15/09/20).

Pizza Hut, the restaurant chain, is closing 29 of its 244 UK restaurants, with the loss of 450 jobs. This will leave Pizza Hut with 5,000 employees (BBC 09/09/20).

9 Costa Coffee, the coffee chain, is cutting up to 1,650 jobs to cut costs. As far as possible, staff will be found other jobs within the company. Costa employs 16,000 people in its coffee shops and a further 10,500 people working in its franchised cafes (BBC 03/09/20).

Computers & IT

The UK’s gaming sector, worth £4bn, is likely to nearly triple in value within the next three years to £10bn, creating 20% more jobs year-on-year across all areas in 2020 - with IT jobs up 43% according to a report by recruitment agency Robert Walters. By the end of March 2020, digital downloading increased by 67% week-on-week and physical game sales increased by 218%. During lockdown there was a significant rise in new users looking to connect with friends and family by playing together online, particularly the over 60s, who began gaming to ‘keep their brain in shape’ and play with grandchildren'. In 2020, jobs in game programming up 154%, project management up 140%, developers up 91%, audio/video specialists up 76%, and artist/creative up 59%. Up to recently IT has dominated recruitment in gaming, around 75% of all jobs advertised, which has now fallen to 68%. No back office and support jobs have grown – 13% of all jobs advertised are in marketing or PR, followed by 5% office/business support, 5% HR, 3% accounting and 2% procurement & supply chain (BL 01/10/20).

Geek Retreat, Glasgow-based 'all things geeky' specialist, such as comics, memorabilia and tabletop games, is opening another 100 stores by autumn 2022, creating around 600 new jobs. Geek Retreat already has 14 UK sites and plans to open five stores a month from the beginning of 2021, starting with Bournemouth, Northampton and Liverpool, followed by Southampton, Dumfries, Cardiff and Sutton in London (BBC 19/10/20).

IBM (International Business Machines) plans to split into two public companies in 2021. The aim is to focus IBM on higher profit business, such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. IBM is setting up NewCo, to be renamed later, to work on legacy IT infrastructure and managed infrastructure. IBM currently employs 352,000 people and will move around 90,000 of them to 'NewCo' (BBC 09/10/20).

Guild Esports, the global eSports franchising business co-owned by David Beckham, launched in June 2020, and initially plans to set up and field dedicated teams to compete in four online games: Fortnite, CS:GO, Rocket League and FIFA. It has created jobs for a management team of industry veterans with experience as professional players, coaches and the media (YBI 09/09/20). Access VFX: meet the industry (animation, VFX and games) on 26 November 2020

Engineering

New UK car registrations fell 4.4% in September from 2019, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). It is the worst September this century in what is normally the industry's second most important month - there were just 328,041 new registrations (BBC 05/10/20).

Booth Industries, the Bolton-based engineering firm, has won a contract to supply cross passage doors for the HS2 rail link, creating 50 jobs over the next 10 years (YBI 30/09/20).

Environment, animals & plants

Asda, the supermarket chain, has opened a trial sustainability store in Leeds. The store aims to help shoppers reduce, reuse and recycle. It includes 15 refill stations offering customers a selection of more than 30 household staples sold in refillable packaging. The store will be used to test and learn which parts of the offer work for customers and can also be developed at scale to be considered for use in other locations in 2021 (YBI 20/10/20).

10 The government has signed an agreement with Teeside University to open the UK's first Hydrogen Transport Centre in Middlesbrough. The new facility is expected to create hundreds of clean energy jobs when it is built. The National Hydrogen Transport Centre will carry out the research, development and testing of new hydrogen technologies for cars, buses, trains, lorries, boats and planes (YBI 30/09/20).

Royal Dutch Shell, the global oil company, plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 jobs as due to the slump in oil demand during the Covid pandemic. The cuts would be implemented by 2022; it is expected that 1,500 will be voluntary redundancies (BBC 30/09/20).

GE Renewable Energy, the manufacturer of wind turbines, is creating 240 jobs to meet its contracts for the wind farms on Dogger (YBI 23/09/20).

Financial services

Virgin Money UK, the high street bank, is cutting a further 400 jobs across the UK in the first few months of 2021. The move is part of the bank's integration of Clydesdale and under the brand (YBI 07/10/20).

TSB, the high street bank, is closing 164 of its branches and cutting 960 jobs, due to more customers banking online during the COVID crisis. The cuts are in addition to the 82 branches it said it would close in November, as part of its plans to save £100m by 2022. The bank will go from 475 branches to 290 by the end of 2021 (BBC 30/09/20).

EY, the company, has recruited 39 graduates and apprentices to its offices in Yorkshire and the Humber, including 21 graduates and 11 apprentices on its Leeds office (YBI 29/09/20).

Lloyds, the banking group, is cutting 865 jobs in areas, such as insurance and wealth management, as part of its postponed plans to restructure its business. Lloyds has around 65,000 employees (BBC 09/09/20).

Legal & political services

Gunnercooke, the northern-based law firm, is opening new offices and specialist consultancies in private equity and football, creating jobs. The firm currently employs over 270 senior lawyers across its offices in , London and Leeds. It's opening a new office in Birmingham and an office in Germany, with more overseas offices planned (YBI 29/09/20).

Leisure, sport & tourism

The government has announced it has made grants to arts venues from the Culture Recovery Fund. Recipients include the Shakespeare's Globe, the Sage Gateshead, The Birmingham Hippodrome, London's Old Vic theatre, the English National Ballet, Gandey Productions, and a further 35 organisations and venues across England will receive up to £3m. Over 70% of the funding is going go to organisations outside London (BBC 24/10/20). W: www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-available-through-the-culture-recovery-fund

The UK tourism and recreation sector returned to growth in August for the first time since February, according to the ’s UK Recovery Tracker (YBI 21/09/20).

The Gym Group plans to open a new gym in York in early 2021, creating several jobs. The Gym Group has plans to open more sites (YBI 09/10/20).

11 UK Outdoors, which represents 15,000 people and outdoor learning organisations and adventure activities, has warned that the continuing freeze on overnight residential school trips could cost nearly 6,000 jobs before January 2021 (BBC 05/10/20).

Cineworld, the multiplex cinema and picture house chain, is closing its UK and US cinemas with the potential loss of 5,500 jobs in the UK. Cineworld currently employs 45,000 people. Cineworld has not said when it will reopen its 663 cinemas, which include 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse theatres in the UK (BBC 05/10/20).

Odeon, the cinema chain, is cutting the opening hours for 25% of its cinemas in the UK and Ireland to weekends only because of delays to new film releases, this is likely to lead to some job cuts but Odeon is currently not saying how many. Odeon runs 120 theatres and employs 5,500 people (BBC 05/10/20).

Media, print & publishing

Parts of the British Film Industry has begun filming again, after introducing strict safety rules. Demand for films and series is growing as streaming programmes on, for example Amazon and Netflix, grows. The industry estimates it will need to fill up to 25,000 new jobs to meet the demand (BBC Radio 4 28/09/20)

Performing arts

Inner City Music, which runs the iconic Band on the Wall Manchester music venue, has received funding to keep its small central management team and cover some of its running costs, other jobs have been lost due to the pandemic (YBI 11/09/20).

Retail sales & customer services

People are shopping more locally during the current crisis and during periods of lockdown, online shopping doubles (BBC 17/09/20).

Sky, the media giant, has opened its first shop in Liverpool, and plans to open more in 2020 and 2021 open shops across the UK, creating new jobs (YBI 22/10/20).

THG, the Manchester-headquartered ecommerce giant, plans to create a further 500 jobs by the end of 2020. The jobs will be in a variety of positions but the majority will be in THG Ingenuity. They are in addition to the 2,000 already brought forward in the past year (YBI 24/10/20).

Gap, the US fashion retailer, is considers closing all its UK stores and changing its business model to franchise-only in Europe, with the potential loss of hundreds of UK jobs. In July 2020, it had 129 Gap- branded stores in Europe and around 400 franchise stores (BBC 24/10/20).

Edinburgh Woollen Mill, the owner of the Peacocks and Jaeger clothing brands, is going into administration to try and save its business and reduce job losses, which could be as many as 21,000 jobs (BBC 10/10/20).

Poundland, the discount chain, has bought Fultons foods, the Yorkshire-headquartered frozen food retail business with plans to create around 1,000 jobs. Poundland has added frozen and chilled foods to more than 70 of its stores and plans to increase this in more than 40 others by December 2020. It also plans to turn some of Fultons' stores into Poundland stores by 2022. Barnsley will be the site for one of its two distribution centres (YBI 09/10/20).

Ikea, the Swedish furniture store giant, plans to open 50 stores worldwide, including in the UK, creating a significant number of jobs. It currently has 445 stores globally and has seen a rise in

12 demand as people do up their homes during the COVID crisis. Ingka Group, a franchise company that operates most Ikea stores plans to open 30 new stores globally in the next year, including an Ikea in Hammersmith, London in spring 2021 (BBC 06/10/20).

H&M, the Swedish-run and world's second biggest fashion retailer, is cutting 250 stores globally in 2021, once it has moved more shoppers online. The firm has 5,000 shops worldwide but how many closures will be in the UK is not yet known (BBC 01/10/20).

B&M, the discount chain, is opening up to 45 new stores but will also close some stores by the end of the year (BBC 29/09/20).

Aldi, the discount supermarket chain, plans to open 100 new stores and create 4,000 jobs. Aldi is aiming to have 1,200 stores by 2025 (YP 28/09/20).

Morrisons, the supermarket chain, has created 2,420 new cleaning jobs across its shops, to ensure stores are clean and to carry out a 'deep clean' every three weeks. Morrisons is also creating more than 1,000 jobs across the UK as part of its partnership with Amazon. The retailer is recruiting for staff to help pick and pack customer orders (BBC 23/09/20; YBI 01/10/20).

Victoria's Secret, the high street chain, has agreed a joint venture deal for its UK and Ireland business, with the retail company, Next, saving 500 jobs. Next will help run the stores in the UK and, from spring 2021, the online business in the UK (YBI 15/09/20).

Screwfix, the DIY store, is creating 300 jobs in response to the rise in demand for its products during the pandemic increases (BBC Radio 4 11/09/20).

Morrisons and Iceland, the supermarket chains, have made thousands of temporary jobs permanent (BBC 08/09/20).

Jigsaw, the fashion chain, is closing 13 shops and cutting more than 100 jobs. Jigsaw has already closed four shops in 2020. It currently employs 900 people (BBC 03/09/20).

The Co-op, the supermarket chain, plans to create 1,000 jobs when it opens 50 new stores. The jobs being created will be for the new stores and another 15 existing sites that are to be enlarged. In addition, up to 12 new Co-op franchise stores are being launched in 2020, including at Oxford Brookes University and Stirling University. More university locations are planned for next year (YBI 04/09/20).

Amazon, the online retailer, is creating 7,000 permanent jobs in the UK to meet demand for shopping online. Amazon has already created 3,000 permanent jobs in 2020, so by the end of 2020 it will have created a total of 10,000 new jobs, paying a minimum of £9.50 an hour. This will take its total permanent UK workforce to over 40,000. Amazon is also creating 20,000 seasonal UK jobs over the Christmas period (BBC 03/09/20).

Social work & counselling services

Charities, including hospices are facing closure, as their funding is affected by the shutting of their shops, which could lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs (TG 27/10/20).

Transport & logistics

Teesside International Airport is launching two new flights to Bergamo in Italy from 2021, which will help to safeguard jobs (YBI 22/10/20).

13 , the UK airline, is cutting 1,150 more jobs as part of its strategy to secure its future until at least March 2022. The airline had already cut more than 3,500 jobs from its 10,000-strong workforce in early 2020. It has also introduced COVID 19 testing for its pilots and cabin crew monthly to enable it to keep passengers and crew safe, bring back confidence and to keep flying. Virgin Atlantic is also launching two new routes from Manchester Airport to India. It will fly three times a week to Mumbai beginning in December and twice weekly to Delhi starting in January. It plans to increase its presence in the North (BBC 04/09/20; BT 05/10/20; YBI 21/10/20).

Flybe, the collapsed regional airline, has had its brand and assets bought by the hedge fund operated Thyme Opco, with plans to relaunch the airline on a smaller scale, hopefully creating jobs later in 2021 (BBC 19/10/20).

Ryanair, the budget airline, is closing its bases in Cork, Shannon, and Toulouse for the winter but expects to maintain 65% of routes with reduced flight frequencies. Ryanair will be operating at 40% of 2019 capacity. Rather than cutting jobs, Ryanair will be introducing more unpaid leave and job sharing over winter in its bases where it has agreed reduced working time and pay (BBC 15/10/20).

Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the owners of three UK airports, is likely to cut 465 jobs at Manchester Airport, as well as 376 at London Stansted Airport and 51 at East Midlands Airport (BBC 07/10/20).

Beelivery, the grocery delivery service, plans to create 20,000 jobs across the UK in the run up to Christmas. The company has already created 10,000 driver jobs in 2020, most of these are self- employed and home-based (YBI 14/09/20).

British Airways, the national airline group owned by IAG, is cutting more flights over the next three months due to the collapse in demand for air travel. British Airways will fly 'no more than' 30% of its usual flights compared with 2019. The airline cutting up to 13,000 jobs; 8,236 employees left the business by the end of August, mostly as a result of voluntary redundancy (BBC 10/09/20; 22/10/20).

Heathrow Airport is looking to implement pay cuts of 15% to 20%, affecting about 50% of the 4,700 staff in engineering, air-side operations and security. If a pay cut agreement is not reached, it is likely that job cuts would be implemented. Heathrow has already reduced its managerial roles by 33% and launched a voluntary redundancy scheme in June (BBC 03/09/20).

Work trends regional

The number of new vacancies posted online in West Yorkshire increased by 10% in the week ending 29 August, compared with the previous week. All West Yorkshire councils shared in this growth. The most recent weekly count of new vacancies in West Yorkshire remained 22% below the pre-crisis level (LCR 08/09/20).

Leeds City Region saw a 4,000 or 3% monthly increase in claimants in July, compared with June, while West Yorkshire’s claimant count increased by 3,100, also 3%. Nationally, there was growth of 73,000 (again 3%). Comparing July 2020 with the pre-lockdown period in March 2020 the number of claimants has increased by 64,300 (96%) in Leeds City Region and by 51,400 (90%) across West Yorkshire. The national average increase is 114% (WYLP 10/09/20; (LCR 23/09/20): • A further 2,800 people were claiming out of work benefits in August in West Yorkshire, an increase of 2% on July. There are now 109,400 claimants in West Yorkshire, the highest level since 1987. • The return to work remains gradual, with most workers in some office-based sectors still away from their usual place of work.

14 Five new priorities are likely to be important in the post-Corona future, these are social care, social housing, technical education, combatting climate change and preparing the nation for the impact of artificial intelligence on society, according to the historian, Lord Peter Hennessy (BBC Radio 4 16/10/20).

More businesses are using artificial intelligence to interact with their customers, in response to the COVID crisis, according to attendees at the Great Northern AI Summit 2020. The speed of change in IT is being felt across all sectors. UST Global, the digital technology supplier, based its company in Leeds due to 'the levels of growth [seen] in the tech and creative industries' (YBI 13/10/20).

The West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership has been launched to grow digital skills 'strengthen the local economy' in the region. The Partnership will see key regional stakeholders from the public, private and charity sectors working together (BL 14/10/20).

Leeds United’s promotion into the Premier League is expected to have an impact on the economy of the city of Leeds. Much of Manchester’s recent success is said to be due to its football clubs’ success. It is estimated that the overall economy of Leeds will eventually have a cash boost of around £3m for each home game. The wider international attention from TV coverage will be much higher and therefore, indirectly help Leeds and Leeds' businesses (YBI 08/10/20).

Sheffield Hallam’s National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering (NCEFE) has begun work on two projects that will help growth in the food and drink sector, and hopefully lead to more jobs. The first project will work with Barnsley-based JJA Pack to repurpose a condiment filling machine, through a redesign and adoption of advanced digital tools, so that it will be able to fill containers with hand sanitiser with an output capacity of 36,000 litres a day. The second project involves working with Baker Perkins, the food processing equipment manufacturer, to develop new technology for the commercial production of meat substitutes using, for the first time, flour from whole beans and pulses as the main ingredient, rather than expensive and highly processed isolated pulse protein (BL 24/09/20).

Atlas Leisure Homes, the Hull-based caravan manufacturer is creating 80 caravan production jobs, including jig shop and cab shop operators, finishers, roofers, and furnishers, to meet the demand for its range of caravans (YBI 28/10/20).

Trio Healthcare, the ostomy specialist that develops and distributes a range of market-leading silicone-based ostomy accessories, designed to provide stoma patients with access to products that are gentler to the skin, has secured funding to help the company grow, which could lead to new jobs in 2021. The company has a manufacturing facility in Skipton and operations in Cheshire and Buckinghamshire (YBI 28/10/20).

The Co-op, the supermarket chain, has opened a new store in the Leeds' Arena Quarter, creating 12 new jobs (YBI 26/10/20).

Calibre Scientific UK, the umbrella organisation for several life science companies, has increased its office and lab space at UKSE's Innovation Centre in Sheffield, and created several jobs to grow its team to 21. Calibre plans to create more jobs in its companies, which include BioServUK, Molecular Dimensions, Protein Ark and Kalon Biological (YBI 21/10/20).

Leeds Bradford Airport is cutting up to 107 jobs from its workforce as a result of the impact of the COVID crisis (YBI 21/10/20).

Zatchels, the leather bag retailer, has opened a shop in York, creating several jobs. Zatchels plans to open more stores in the future (YBI 21/10/20).

15 TransPennine Express (TPE), the rail company, is creating 57 jobs across the North to work on its extra cleaning programme, which will see a dedicated team of train presentation operatives at every TPE station and on each train when it reaches its destination. The jobs will be in in Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Huddersfield, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Preston, Scunthorpe, Selby, Stalybridge, Sheffield and York (YBI 16/10/20).

Project D's, the Leeds-based handcrafted doughnut delivery business, has opened a distribution unit in Leeds, creating 20 jobs to deliver doughnuts across the north of England. It also plans to open a store at the site in 2021, creating 10 more jobs (YBI 14/10/20).

Supplies for Candles, the Mexborough-based online supplier of candle and soap making ingredients, has created 35 jobs, doubling its workforce, to meet recent demand (YBI 13/10/20).

Surefreight Global Forwarding Ltd, the logistics company, is opening a depot in Bradford, creating several jobs (YBI 08/10/20).

Vp, the Harrogate-headquartered listed equipment rental specialist, is closing 17 branches with the loss of around 150 jobs. Vp has reopened 103 of its 120 stores but the remaining stores have closed due to a drop in demand (YBI 07/10/20).

Sheffield Forgemasters, the engineering specialist, is consulting on cutting 95 jobs from its 708- strong workforce due to the current economic climate. The redundancies will be at all levels of the business. Forgemasters has faced a rapid reduction in the throughput of products for steel processing, offshore oil and gas and power generation sectors (YBI 02/10/20).

Blossom Dental Care and Implant Studio, the York-based cosmetic dental business, has created a new team to help deliver its expanded services. It hopes to make further investment by September 2021 (YBI 02/10/20).

Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Stobart Air, has launched its new route from Leeds Bradford to Belfast, in addition to its Dublin route, safeguarding several jobs (BBC 02/10/20).

MTL Advanced, the Rotherham-based engineering company, has created 28 new jobs for skilled welders, CNC machinists, press operators, production assistants, quality and project engineers, to help with new rail and defence contracts (YBI 28/09/20).

Meatless Farm, the fast-growing Leeds-based meat alternatives brand, has been given funding to expand its brands and business. It has offices in Leeds, Amsterdam, New York and Singapore and manufactures its products in Canada (YP 28/09/20).

PDG Architectural, the Leeds-based architectural practice, has moved to bigger premises and is creating several new jobs. PDG currently employs six people and plans to introduce new services by the end of 2021 (YBI 25/09/20).

Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, the Leeds-based manufacturing company, plans to create 100 jobs by 2025. It currently employs 200 people in R&D (research and development) operations, manufacturing and quality control roles (YP 25/09/20).

SmartSearch, the Ilkley-based based anti-money laundering platform developer, has opened an office in the western state of Utah and has begun recruiting a team to work there (YBI 24/09/20).

BJSS, the Leeds-headquartered technology and engineering consultancy, is speeding up the recruitment of school leavers, apprentices, university graduates and people retraining or returning to work by creating 80 new jobs. The jobs will be filled between now and 2021 (YBI 24/09/20).

16 Zenith, the Leeds-based vehicle outsourcing company, has bought the fleet services, rental and finance operations of the Altrincham-based Cartwright Group out of administration, safeguarding 259 jobs. The acquisition has created the largest HGV and specialist fleets in the UK, with over 50,000 vehicles (BL 24/09/20).

Catch, the seafood restaurant brand, is opening a new restaurant in Leeds in October using staff from the previous restaurant on the site. The Catch group already has restaurants in Holmfirth and West Vale, as well as recently opened Catch Headingley (YBI 23/09/20).

Exemplar Health Care is opening a new care home in Bradford, creating around 150 jobs. The company will begin the recruitment of nurses, support workers, administrators, kitchen and domestic team members, and other support staff at the beginning of 2021 (YBI 18/09/20).

The Kay Group, the petrol retailer, has now opened its new Beighton service station on the M1, near Sheffield, creating 15 jobs. A further 10 jobs have been created at the station's new Subway outlet (YBI 18/09/20).

SeAH, the South Korean manufacturer of monopiles, which are driven into the seabed to provide the foundations for offshore wind turbines, is planning to set up a production facility for a key wind turbine component on the south bank of the Humber, creating up to 400 jobs (YBI 18/09/20).

Armstrong Watson, the accountancy and financial advisory firm, has created 26 trainee positions across its offices in Glasgow, Carlisle, Northallerton, Skipton and Leeds. Armstrong Watson has appointed 13 chartered accountancy trainees, up from 11 in 2019 and 13 trainee accountancy technicians studying either AAT or the taxation qualification ATT (YBI 17/09/20).

Mansfield Pollard, the Bradford-based specialist provider of industrial air handling units, data centre cooling, kitchen ventilation and acoustic systems, has expanded into new premises to meet increased demand. It has further expansion plans over the next three to five years (YBI 17/09/20).

SSB Law, the Sheffield-based law firm, has created 64 jobs during the COVID crisis, part of its total creation of 101 jobs since September 2019. Most of the jobs have been created in accounts, HR and cavity wall claims department. The company has plans to expand further (YBI 16/09/20).

Blacks Solicitors, the Leeds-based law firm, has created three paralegal training jobs in September 2020 (YBI 16/09/20).

Bluetree Group, the Rotherham-based online printing business is set to create 400 jobs after securing a contract to produce face masks for the NHS, doubling it workforce. The jobs will be for machine operators, engineers, lab technicians and logistics professionals (YBI 15/09/20).

Henry Boot, the building company, has put the housing contractor Starfish Commercial, which works with housing associations, into voluntary liquidation, which is likely to lead to job losses (YBI 15/09/20).

TTEC (UK) Solutions, the customer experience specialist, has moved to larger premises in Leeds, where it plans to create 400 contact centre jobs in the future, as part of its expansion in the UK and Europe (YBI 11/09/20).

Yorkshire is creating 35 new tech professional jobs, as part of plans to develop its digital capabilities. The society is looking for IT engineers and team leaders (YBI 10/09/20).

Bhayani, the law firm, has opened a new office in Leeds, creating several jobs. Bhayani plans to open more offices across the Yorkshire region (YBI 07/09/20).

17 YCE Catering Equipment, the Leeds-based catering equipment supplier, has gone into administration with the loss of 25 jobs (YBI 04/09/20).

Focus on Calderdale & Kirklees

Kirklees Council plans to invest in Huddersfield and Dewsbury centres. The plans in Huddersfield include a new 'Sound Space 'music venue, improvement works to the public realm/open space in the centre, a new multi-storey car park at Market Hall, repair works to the George Hotel, which will become a new National Rugby League Museum and the refurbishment of shopfronts. In Dewsbury, it will refurbish Dewsbury Arcade, as well as improve the public realm and carry out shopfront improvements, introduce public art projects, help to refurbish the library building and put up new street lighting (YBI 24/09/20).

Likewise plc, the distributor of floorcoverings and matting products has opened a new larger distribution centre in Leeds. Previously, the distribution centre was on a smaller site in Dewsbury (YBI 26/10/20).

Triton Construction, the construction business with an office in Liversedge and another in Warrington, has been acquired by an employee ownership trust, which holds shares on behalf of its 55 direct employees. The company has coped reasonably well during the COVID crisis and hopes eventually to increase its turnover from £58m in March 2019 to £100m over the next few years (YBI 14/10/20).

Fox’s Biscuits' Batley and Kirkham, Lancashire sites have been sold by its owner, the 2 Sisters Food Group, to the Italian Ferrero Group, the world’s third largest chocolate and confectionery business. 2 Sisters will continue production at its third site in Uttoxeter, which produces Fox's own- label biscuits for major retailers. The purchase of the two Fox’s sites will be the second European biscuit acquisition in a year by the Ferrero Group, which is moving into new sectors as it expands its global portfolio (YBI 07/10/20).

The Magma Group, a Dewsbury-based producer of industrial ceramics, catalyst and combustion engineering technology for manufacturers around the world, has created a new catalyst product, which is expected to increase its turnover by 30% by September 2021. The new catalyst will help the increase in demand for renewable energy using hydrogen (YBI 15/09/20).

SimplyBiz Group, the Huddersfield-based listed business support company, has managed to keep its revenue at a similar level to last year, £28.9m for the six months to 30 June 2020, down only slightly from £29.1m in the same six month in 2019, due to strong trading (YBI 15/09/20).

Job Gains

BHP Accountants has created 31 jobs for new entrants to the job market, in its largest ever intake of graduates and trainees. BHP has appointed 20 graduates and 11 trainees. The firm has also created four one-year placements. The new staff will join all departments of the business, including tax, finance, corporate finance, audit and financial planning, across its offices in Sheffield, Leeds, York, Cleckheaton and Chesterfield (YBI 05/10/20).

Caremark (Kirklees), the home care company, plans to create 50 jobs by the end of 2020 due to increase demand during the COVID crisis. This will nearly double its workforce, currently 60, by increasing it by at least 10 a month from August 2020 (YBI 24/09/20).

18 Job Losses

SDH Project Services Ltd, the Brighouse-based telecommunications infrastructure company that worked on a subcontract basis laying fibre cables for home broadband, has gone into administration with the loss of 49 jobs (YBI 23/10/20).

Sources

AA Amazing Apprenticeships BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news BL Business Link BT Business Traveller DM Daily Mirror FEW FE Week GD /online NCUB National Centre for Universities and Business P Prospects Graduate Labour Market T Touchbase TG The Telegraph WYLP West Yorkshire Learning Providers YBI Yorkshire Business Insider YP Yorkshire Post

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