Over recent years the government has funded 19 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs), whose purpose is to direct knowledge of training opportunities and funding into various industrial sectors throughout the UK. The SSC with responsibility for the paper industry is Proskills, who we have featured a number of times in our pages. Over the course of the next couple of years it has been rumoured all SSCs are going to be forced to become self-sufficient with regard to funding, as government cuts take place.
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