{"id":2568,"date":"2019-09-20T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:25:41","slug":"a-plant-highly-commended-at-national-apprenticeship-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2019\/09\/a-plant-highly-commended-at-national-apprenticeship-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Plant highly commended at National Apprenticeship Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK\u2019s largest plant, tool and equipment hire company is celebrating after being highly commended at the North West regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organised by the National Apprenticeship Service, the regional awards in the North West, which are now in their 16th\u00a0year, celebrate outstanding apprentices, employers and individuals who go above and beyond to champion apprenticeships across England.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>British Army Award for Large Employer of the Year\u00a0<\/strong>recognises those employers who have placed apprenticeships at the heart of their business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A-Plant\u2019s Head of Training, Bob Harper said, <\/strong>the company was thrilled to receive a glowing recognition in the British Army Award for Large Employer of the Year.\u00a0He commented: \u201cWe are delighted to have been awarded highly commended at the prestigious awards for a third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApprentices are a vital part of A-Plant\u2019s future and this latest acknowledgement is testament to the company\u2019s continued commitment to training the next generation of future leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year we committed \u00a32.5m to our\u00a0apprenticeship programmeand we currently have over 140 apprentices in all areas. In addition we have also introduced several new apprentice streams \u2013 such as Accommodation Maintenance, along with our existing opportunities in engineering and customer service to plant maintenance and driving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApprentices bring fresh new eyes to the workplace and contribute to a healthy and dynamic environment for the whole team. On successfully graduating 100% of our apprentices are given full-time employment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud that our apprenticeship scheme has become much sought after and widely recognised across the industries we operate in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A-Plant\u2019s commendation was announced during an awards ceremony at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s largest plant, tool and equipment hire company is celebrating after being highly commended at the North West regional <\/p>\n<a class=\"btn-sub-green l-blog-post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2019\/09\/a-plant-highly-commended-at-national-apprenticeship-awards-2019\/\" title=\"Read more\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}