RESIDENTS and businesses are set to benefit from new green skills and qualifications – thanks to funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
Courses are running for adults in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coventry and Warwickshire supporting people to gain skills in electric vehicle maintenance, while and residents of Birmingham and Dudley are learning how to install vehicle charging points.
And WMCA has just announced funding to extend green skills courses to Birmingham colleges, for both local unemployed people and those with jobs who are seeking to upskill.
The cost of higher level training is usually met by employers and individuals but the WMCA is using a portion of its funds to offer this free of charge to groups of residents.
Other green skills include retrofitting people’s homes to make them more environmentally friendly, with BMet, Dudley, Solihull, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire colleges and the Black Country Training Group training unemployed people to secure jobs.
