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Money for the asking if you train staff
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0 UT from the Road Transport Industry Training Board to operators this week went a shiny yellow booklet entitled: "Training grants scheme; . employers' guide, 1967-1968". In it are details of how to claim grants for training and education, and the amounts for which each type of training will qualify.
The Board stresses that:— (a) Grants will not be payable until any due levies have been paid.
(b) Records of training must be made available.
(c) Claims (on the Proper RTITB form) will only be considered for training undertaken on or after August 1, 1967.
(d) In this first year, grants will be limited to making a contribution towards current training costs; no attempt is being made to reimburse actual costs incurred.
(e) Apprentice or junior-trainee schemes must include day or block release.
How much will be paid in typical cases? The book gives many examples. Refresher training for operatives: £3 a day (adults), 308 (juniors). Recognized craft/technician training, and professional or commercial apprentice/pupil training: £100 a year. Clerical off-the-job training: £3 a day (adults), 30s (juniors). Management training: off-the-job, £6 a day, on-the-job 13 a day— with £150 p.a. maximum.
Supplementary grants are payable, £1,000 a year for a full-time training officer, for example, and £500 for an instructor. There will also be encouragement awards for educational successes, and allowances for vehicles used in training (£1 to £5 a day).
Safety training is stressed. Courses predominantly concerned with safety will attract a 50 per cent bonus on the grant. And this week the RTITB announced the appointment of Mr. Maurice Bryant as manager, safety training. He is 43 and has been chief safety officer of Sir Alfred McAlpine and Sons since 1962.