Does providing staff training help with staff retention?
Terry Watts The premise is that young people will be attracted to an industry if they can see a future and a career path for them. There’s lot of talk these days about people changing careers several times in their working lives, and people want to see where they can go. I think we need to show that there are careers out there in print and that they are relatively well paid. Bernard Rutter Progression is a big challenge for the industry. It’s difficult to generalise because of the different size of organisations. However, recently someone was saying that lots of companies don’t even have a business plan let alone a progression plan. There isn’t the natural progression there was – people aren’t leaving, which makes it difficult to see a way to go. We’ve got a big job on to attract young people to the industry. Companies have got to buy into it as well. Are you saying that it’s not just the technical side of training that is a problem? Andrew Pindar I think there is a massive problem wit
