{"id":55397,"date":"2025-08-09T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55397\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:30:14","slug":"thousands-of-west-midlands-youth-work-opportunities-pledged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55397\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of West Midlands youth work opportunities pledged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the mayor launched his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgeqlr4301yo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Growth Plan<\/a>, which aims to create 93,000 quality, well-paid jobs over a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;By connecting people to good jobs in the region&#8217;s fastest-growing sectors, we&#8217;re not just changing lives \u2013 we&#8217;re building our economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young people are being given access to training, education, careers guidance and other support, including work preparation lessons at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erdington resident Daniel Harte, 25, had to give up his career as a chef when he developed a reaction to chemicals commonly used in a kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a year unemployed, he joined a West Midlands Combined Authority-funded Engineering Path2Apprenticeship with Performance Through People (PTP). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He attended a PTP training centre to learn practical welding skills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Harte secured an apprenticeship at Rotadex Systems, an engineering and manufacturing storage solutions company, for a Level 2 LEAN Manufacturing Operative Apprentice, with PTP as the training provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Path 2 Apprenticeships made the learning very easy. It was fun and engaging, and the tutors were extremely helpful when I made mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the mayor launched his Growth Plan, which aims to create 93,000 quality, well-paid jobs over a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-55397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}