Health & Safety
Executive (HSE)
HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.
We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.
Vacancies online
Vacancies online is provided by Connexions Nottinghamshire and is a work related website for young people.
You will be able to find information about preparing for work, looking for opportunities and starting your first job.
There are also links to other websites that you may find useful.
Passportfolio and MyChoiceNotts
Passportfolio and MyChoiceNotts are now one site.
If you are a young person in Nottinghamshire you can register for free.
If you already have a username and password for Passportfolio you can use this. If you have a username and password for MyChoiceNotts you’ll be asked to change it.
This site will help you to find out more about yourself, show what you have achieved, and take control of your future!
You’ll get help with "progression planning" which is about getting where you want to go in the future. There are four different steps to planning for your future, and different parts of the site can help with all of them.
Useful Links
Funding Organisations
The National Apprenticeship Service
The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) has end to end responsibility for Apprenticeships in England.NAS has been designed to increase the number of Apprenticeship opportunities and provide a dedicated, responsive service for both employers and learners. We are simplifying the process of recruiting an Apprentice through Apprenticeship vacancies, an online web-based matching service.
Apprenticeships bring considerable value to organisations, employers, individuals and the economy. Businesses across the country are now increasingly realising the enormous benefits that Apprenticeships create, not only in terms of a highly skilled workforce but also by boosting productivity and staff retention.
Research shows they are an optimal way of training, developing and skilling people for the future, helping businesses secure a supply of people with the skills and qualities they need and which were often not available on the external job market.
We know employers directly benefit from these highly trained apprentices. The overwhelmingly positive results we have seen demonstrate how important it is for us to ensure the NAS maintains and builds this important programme.
The Skills Funding Agency
The Skills Funding Agency was set up to fund and regulate adult Further Education and skills training in England. They are part of a network of organisations in the country who commission, manage and market training for adults.
Their mission is to ensure that people and businesses can get to the skills training they need to succeed in playing their part in society and in growing England’s economy. Click here
Young People's Learning Agency
The YPLA was launched in April 2010 with the mission of championing education and training for young people in England.We do this by providing financial support to young learners, by funding academies for all their provision and by supporting local authorities to commission suitable education and training opportunities for all
16-19 year olds. Click here
Members and Partners
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce (DNCC).
DNCC delivers a wide range of business support services, across both counties to its members and the wider business community and to individuals seeking to gain employment through learning. 
DNCC also has a training provision which delivers a
range of fully-funded training and assessment schemes to help both young people and adults get into employment. It also has a commercial training arm offering bespoke training courses for both employers and employees.DNCC and fdf are working collaboratively to raise awareness of Foundation degrees and work-based learning in the East Midlands.
Click here to find out more about DNCC
EMFEC
EMFEC is an independent and impartial organisation whose existence is underpinned by an overriding objective to help its customers, members and stakeholders achieve excellence.It is an established part of the learning and skills sector with a good reputation of working with and for providers.
Initially established to support the needs of Colleges of FE, the scope of EMFEC’s role has expanded to include work based and adult community learning providers.
EMFEC is an established part of the learning and skills sector with a membership encompassing regional further education colleges, sixth form colleges and specialist colleges.
EMFEC’s Board of Trustees is drawn from college principals and senior managers.EMFEC manages the Association of Colleges (AoC) regional function with the Chief Executive also undertaking the AoC Regional Director role. EMFEC is also a founding partner of ABC Awards.
Click here to find out more about EMFEC
NCFE
NCFE is a national awarding organisation. Awarding organisations design and award qualifications which recognise the skills, knowledge and understanding achieved by a learner at a particular level and in a particular subject.We offer over 400 qualifications at different levels and in a wide range of subject areas. We also offer a growing portfolio of NVQs, as well as Basic and Functional Skills qualifications.
We’ve produced a variety of support materials to help plan and deliver our products and services, the majority of which are available free to download from our website.
R3 resourcing
R3 Resourcing Welfare and Skills division work with some of the UK’s Leading Education Providers finding the very best talent for them.They specialize primarily within the UK Education and Welfare to Work markets and can recruit across all disciplines.
Government agenda - Welfare to work division works in partnership with organizations within the Education and Skills Sectors that specialize in combating the growing problem of unemployment, social exclusion and poverty and helping the most disadvantaged individuals and communities.
Roles they have filled within the Welfare and Skills arena have included Business Managers, Regional Employer Engagement Managers, Job Brokers, NVQ Assessors, Skills for Life Tutors, Site Managers, IAG Guidance Officers, A1/V1 Assessors, Caseworkers, Learner Engagement Officers, Employment Coaches and Regional managers. Our accredited clients have had many contracts to fulfill from train2gain, ESF, FND, New Deal and Pathways to Work programmes delivering training and mainstream funded courses through LSC. Take a look at their website www.r-three.co.uk/sectors/welfare-and-skills-division
Heading up the Welfare and Skills Division is Tina Lacey – contactable anytime on 07786 323 368 or by emailing tina@r-three.co.uk
Tina is attending the Welfare to Work Convention at GMEX 30/7 – 1/7 and looking forward to meeting new clients there.
Support Organisations
NTN supports Nottinghamshire’s Work Base Learning (WBL) and Work Force development (WFD)
provider network, servicing over 6000 local businesses. As an extension of the high quality and effective training we offer, we have partnered with Peninsula, the UK's leading employment and health & safety consultancy, to offer our members and their clients critical support in these complex areas. Peninsula can help you and your clients realise the full potential of your training programmes within a legally compliant, open and fair employee/employer relationship.
http://www.peninsula-uk.com/ntn/
Service 4 Notts is an excellent resource for providers to access external agencies and partnership links. www.services4notts.org.uk
www.ukrlp.co.uk - The National Register of Learning Providers