Alliance of Sector Skills Councils
A collective body made up of all 25SSCs, launched on 1 April 2008. Its initial focus is to represent and co-ordinate the strategic work of Sector Skills Councils to stake holdersacross the four home nations.
www.sscalliance.org.

Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network
Responsible for promoting apprenticeships to employers of all sizes.
www.employersforapprentices.gov.uk

CoVE - Centres of Vocational Excellence
The CoVE programme was launched in 2001 to improve radically the capacity of the FE sector to deliver specialist work-based learning.
cove.lsc.gov.uk

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was created in June 2009 from the merger of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. BIS aims to create conditions for business success by promoting innovation, enterprise and science, and by focusing on skills and opportunities.
www.bis.gov.uk

Discover Engineering
Discover Engineering has been developed and funded by Gradcracker - the careers website for graduate engineers. Discover Engineering provides a gateway to hundreds of brilliant websites for young engineers. Here you’ll find everything you need to know about how to become an engineer.
http://www.discoverengineering.co.uk/

Engineering Connections
The website for engineering apprentice recruitment.
www.apprentices.co.uk

Enginuity
The site that explains to would-be apprentices what engineering and technology careers are all about.
www.enginuity.org.uk

EngineeringUK
An independent organization which promotes engineers and engineering. EngineeringUK also aims to inspire people at all levels to pursue careers in engineering and technology.
www.engineeringuk.com

Jobcentre Plus
Help and employment advice for those who are 19-plus
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk

Learning and Skills Council
Non-departmental public body, set up to make England better skilled and more competitive.
www.lsc.gov.uk
www.apprenticeships.org.uk

National Employer Service
NES (the National Employer Service) offers specialist advice on workforce development to national, multi-site employers with more than 5000 employees.
http://nationalemployerservice.org.uk/

Regional Development Agencies
Each of the nine English RDAs works with partners to build on its natural assets, develop the knowledge-based economy, revitalise places and meet the needs of regional businesses.
www.englandsrdas.com

Semta
The government-recognised Sector Skills Council for science, engineering and manufacturing technologies, tasked with driving up apprentice numbers in engineering.
www.semta.org.uk

Skills for Business Network
Made up of the Sector Skills Development Agency, which this month has become the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, see first entry, and the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs),along with other standard setting bodies - it develops and specifies the content of apprenticeship programmes.
www.sscalliance.org

Train to Gain service
Part of the Learning and Skills Council, it provides impartial, independent advice on training to businesses across England.
www.traintogain.gov.uk

UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Opened for business on 1 April 2008,it will operate across the UK helping to achieve a world-class profile on skills by 2020 and the aspiration of an 80% employment rate.
www.ukces.org.uk