08/02/2021
People of all ages in the City of Wolverhampton are being encouraged to find out more about apprenticeships during National Apprenticeship Week (February 8-14)
08/02/2021
It’s National Apprenticeship Week – and Dudley Council is sharing success stories of people the local authority has taken on and helped onto the first rung of a career ladder.
08/02/2021
Sandwell Council has started more than 750 people on apprenticeships since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy scheme in 2017.
05/02/2021
One of the sectors most affected by the pandemic is to get some extra support from a new scheme led by West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
05/02/2021
Black Country Consortium to showcase opportunities
05/02/2021
Funding secured for new Interchange cycle hub
05/02/2021
Nearly 2,000 laptops will be provided by Sandwell Council for children ages five, six and seven.
04/02/2021
The Ladder for the Black Country is actively supporting the ‘Rewrite the Story’ campaign by the Black Country Consortium to recruit enterprise advisors to support secondary and special education need schools across the area.
04/02/2021
Fascinating new footage released by Highways England offers a bird’s eye view of progress being made on the £78 million transformation of a busy M6 junction to tackle congestion problems.
04/02/2021
Highways bosses have pumped £1million into a “pothole purge” and resurfacing of residential roads across Dudley borough.
04/02/2021
Ambitious plans to regenerate and revitalise West Bromwich Town Centre are moving forward.
04/02/2021
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is to donate around 150 old laptops and desktop computers to school children to help address digital poverty across the region.
04/02/2021
The latest edition of the Black Country LEP newsletter is available now
04/02/2021
More than £6million in small business grants has already been paid to over 900 eligible City of Wolverhampton businesses within a month of the latest round of Government funding going live.
03/02/2021
The West Midlands can achieve its ambitious target of becoming net zero carbon by 2041 and create thousands of new jobs if the region pulls together to tackle climate change.