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Skills for Life: find training and employment schemes

Skills for Life is an online directory of training and employment schemes, such as apprenticeships, to help businesses in England recruit new staff, offer work experience or upskill existing staff. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Department for Education (DfE)

Last read from find-employer-schemes.education.gov.uk on 16 Oct 2026.

The Department for Education's online service listing training and employment schemes, such as apprenticeships, that help businesses recruit new staff and upskill existing employees.

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These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with Department for Education (DfE) before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

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Deadline

Open all year

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How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Businesses in England looking to recruit new staff, offer short work experience placements or upskill existing staff. Some schemes are free; others may have costs for training, wages or travel.

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Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff), Start-ups

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How to apply

Filter the schemes by what you want to do, how long they last and what the training costs, then follow the link for the scheme that fits.

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Where it is open: England-wide

England

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HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across England, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • The page does not give a deadline, cost or eligibility criteria for the schemes it links to.
  • Whether businesses can apply depends on the individual schemes listed behind the links.
  • Areas set to UK on the basis the page does not name a region; confirm for individual schemes.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from find-employer-schemes.education.gov.uk on 16 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 16 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 16 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Department for Education (DfE) before you apply.

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