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‘IN APPRENTICESHIP WEEK MY MESSAGE IS ONE OF HOPE’

National Apprenticeship Week is upon us again, but it couldn’t be more different to last year. Very shortly after we spent a fantastic week celebrating the incredible impact that apprenticeships can have on people’s lives in 2020, coronavirus began to wreak havoc on businesses and people across our country, and indeed the rest of the planet.

The whole world has changed dramatically since that time. Our economy in the UK has gone into recession, not once but twice, and

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