Liverpool bags skills cash
Liverpool is to receive money from a government fund set up to boost skills.
The £4.5m City Skills Fund will be available to eight 'core cities' in England, plus London, and their surrounding local enterprise partnership areas.
Each city will receive about £500,000 to address skills priorities across their regions. The fund is designed to help cities and LEPs work with colleges and develop skills needed by employers.
"The City Skills Fund will see our core cities working in partnership with local colleges to ensure employers in their area have access to people with the right skills to help them thrive and grow," said cities minister Greg Clark.
"We are giving cities the chance to build the skills they think are most important.
"This is another example of how the government is putting cities back in charge of their own economic destiny, allowing them to drive growth and create jobs."
In December, the government announced that England’s largest cities outside London – Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds and Nottingham – would be offered investment as part of a series of "City Deals".
