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Skills for Care CEO to chair North West Skills for Business Forum

Andrea Rowe, CEO of adult social care workforce development body Skills for Care, has been elected chair of the North West Skills for Business forum. Rowe takes up the position from December 3 2006.

The primary aim of the North West Skills for Business forum is to provide a voice to employers in the North West across all business sectors. It is a partner of the Skills for Business network, a national collaboration of 25 sector skills councils plus their regulatory body, the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA).

Commenting on her new position, Rowe said: "I am looking forward to building on the good work achieved already by the former chair, and I hope to make a real improvement to the delivery of skills that meet the needs of employers in the North West region better."

Frances O'Grady visits Gosport Network Rail apprentice programme

TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady led a union delegation that met the future generation of Network Rail supervisors, technicians, and managers on a visit to HMS Sultan in Gosport.

Ms O'Grady visited the Portsmouth naval base where she gave TUC backing to Network Rail's £30 million apprenticeship training Programme. She spoke to training managers and some of the 300 plus mainly 17 to 19 year-olds who are being trained on the base as part of the company's three year academic and practical training programme.

David Melville takes over as LLUK chair

Professor David Melville, vice-chancellor of the University of Kent has taken over as the new chair of Lifelong Learning UK.

Professor Melville said he was looking forward to building on Lifelong Learning UK's successful start-up and leading such an important sector skills council, which represents employers in lifelong learning with a total of more than one million staff across the UK.

"Lifelong Learning UK is now well established and has the strong support of government," he said. "Ministers recognise that it has a central role to play in ensuring that the wider workforce is better skilled in the light of the forthcoming Leitch review. I look forward to hearing what Leitch has to say and am confident that the lifelong learning sector will rise to the challenges that he sets us in the months and years ahead."

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