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RHA wants levy to end next year
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• The end of the levy-grant scheme next year is the main recommendation of the Road Haulage Association in its reply to the Department of Employment's consultative document Training for the Future (CM, February 4). The document outlined proposals to substantially increase training opportunities and establish an independent National Training Agency.
The RHA has made eight recommendations to the Secretary of State for Employment. These say that each industry should decide its own vocational needs and the NTA should co-ordinate and finance different industries' training requirements. Because the NTA would be able to finance essential training activities the levy-grant scheme should end after the 1972/73 year.
The RHA says that the NTA should be a separate agency and not part of the Employment Department. "It should be a. national policy-making body restricted in size and its main functions should be to control the training opportunities scheme, to co-ordinate the work of training boards and to administer the known needs of industry. It should not be given powers to override the responsibility of individual industries to decide their own training requirements," says the RHA.