FE NEWS: Financial Education Summit held in Parliament to advocate for greater early financial education

Today, MPs and Peers came together with the financial education community to highlight the severe and tragic consequences of the refusal of successive Governments to tackle the issue of financial education and literacy head on. The result is that children, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds are having their life…

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John Penrose MP Opens New Weston Employment Centre

A new Employment Centre to give hundreds of jobseekers better access to employment skills and training programmes, has opened opposite College’s Knightstone Campus in central Weston. The new site – Weston Employment Centre – has been delivered in collaboration with Weston College, and Seetec Pluss who are delivering the government’s…

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Weston’s MP Calls for Faster Progress on Improving Local Special Educational Needs

Weston’s MP John Penrose today called for North Somerset Council and local health chiefs to move faster in fixing the troubled Special Education Needs & Disabilities service, after Ministers issued an ‘Improvement Notice’ because previously-identified problems aren’t being solved fast enough.  In 2018 a joint inspection by Ofsted and CQC the service…

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Weston MP John Penrose Calls Parliamentary Debate to Push Ministers for Levelling-Up Cash

Weston’s MP John Penrose held a debate in Parliament yesterday to push Government Ministers about the importance of North Somerset’s bids for Levelling Up Fund and Community Renewal Fund cash to support the next steps in the town’s regeneration. John was supported in the debate by Liam Fox (MP for…

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