{"id":60084,"date":"2025-08-11T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:36:10","slug":"affected-workers-invited-to-employability-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60084\/","title":{"rendered":"Affected workers invited to employability event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<p>Affected workers invited to employability event<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A graphic with the words, Employability support event for employees affected by the closure of Andrew Wright Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/employability.xd4448dba.png\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"image__StyledImage-sc-xs82bm-0 BJaaP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A PACE (Partnership Action for Continuing Employment) drop-in session will be held this week for employees affected by the appointment of liquidators at Irvine-based firm Andrew Wright Windows.<\/p>\n<p>North Ayrshire Council\u2019s employability delivery partner, CEiS Ayrshire, will host the session at their office in Landek House, 44-46 Bank St, Irvine KA12 0LP, on Wednesday, 13 August.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a drop-in session from 9am\u20135pm and staff from Skills Development Scotland (SDS), CEIS, DWP (Jobcentre), and North Ayrshire Council will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>A number of PACE partners will be available throughout the day to provide careers advice and employability support (CV preparation, job search and interview techniques), benefits advice, and information on funding for training.<\/p>\n<p>Quote: We are deeply saddened by the recent developments at Andrew Wright Windows and the impact on the employees. Our employability team and our partners will offer whatever advice and support we can. Local employers have already been in touch with the Council to promote current vacancies and we are in the process of creating a vacancy bulletin which will hopefully help employees find new employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotestyled__QuoteCaption-sc-18a62y3-3 dHVIM\">Quote from: Councillor Tony Gurney, Cabinet Member for Green Environment and Economy<\/p>\n<p>Anyone<br \/>\nemployee affected can also contact North Ayrshire Council\u2019s Employability<br \/>\nService for advice by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/news\/mailto:employability@north-ayrshire.gov.uk\" class=\"link-focus-standard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employability@north-ayrshire.gov.uk<\/a>. Employers with vacancies are encouraged to get in<br \/>\ntouch to promote these through the team<\/p>\n<p class=\"published\">Published: 11 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home\/News\/ Affected workers invited to employability event A PACE (Partnership Action for Continuing Employment) drop-in session will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-60084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}