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Employers on MetSkill …

"For the last ten years we have been lone voices, promoting training in our industry; most companies paying lip service to investment-in-people. There money is out there, albeit hidden in a hole trapped in a void and encased in a vacuum. With MetSkill's help we have achieved more in one year than we were able to achieve in ten.

"The development and growth of individuals in our industry is an untapped source of growth, which will require continuous promotion and the full support of an effective NTO to realise. Without organisations like MetSkill, this industry will fall behind its global competititors."

George D Bond, Director, H Williams & Sons Ltd
June 2002

"Times are extremely tough for metals companies, and manufacturing generally at present and it is difficult for us as individual businesses to look beyond the immediate problems facing us. But working more strategically as a metals sector through MetSkill, gives employers the advantage of benefiting from a collective industry approach and gaining access to quality frameworks. Companies like my own have experienced real improvements from introducing relevant industry skills development in key areas such as communications and problem solving."

Stephen Tilsley, Managing Director, Metsec plc
June 2002

Policy Makers on MetSkill initiatives …

"The newly formed All Party Parliamentary Group on Steel, chaired by Helen Jackson MP, welcome the campaign launched recently in the West Midlands targeting leadership and team work skills as the key to securing the metal industry's future success"

Dr Hywel Francis MP, Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Steel
June 2002