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25 February 2021

Extension at Catch22's Burton Academy provides new facilities for pupils

A new, two-storey extension has been completed at Burton Academy, providing pupils with access to additional teaching spaces and improved facilities.

17 February 2021

Wisdom Wednesdays: How Catch22’s victim services have adapted to remote delivery

Through innovation, Catch22’s victim services have continued to support thousands of victims across Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland.

16 February 2021

The Fen Rivers Academy recognised for its commitment to providing safe remote education

The Fen Rivers Academy has successfully completed a comprehensive remote education training programme demonstrating its commitment to providing high-quality remote education, keeping children and young people safe online and supporting pupil wellbeing.

12 February 2021

Step22 launched to support the hospitality sector in its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

As we launch Step22, our new recruitment and training solution to get great people into great jobs in the hospitality sector, Catch22's Director of Vocational Training - Chris Stoker-Jones - takes a look at the impact COVID-19 has had on the hospitality sector, and why action is needed now more than ever.

12 February 2021

"Apprenticeships are not just good for the young people we bring in, but good for the health and fitness of our business"

In this guest blog for National Apprenticeships Week 2021, restaurant founder Iqbal Wahhab discusses how the recovery of the hospitality sector in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic opens up new opportunities for businesses to reduce local unemployment levels, bridge skills gaps through apprenticeships, and put people at the centre of their work.

12 February 2021
Build the Future: National Apprenticeships Week 2021
For National Apprenticeships Week 2021, we are taking a look at how apprentices can help to "Build the Future" - giving learners opportunities for development, as well as having huge benefits for the employer.
04 February 2021
Supporting young people this Children’s Mental Health Week
This Children’s Mental Health Week, many of you reading this will be struggling with your own mental health, whilst having to support children to cope with the challenges they are facing at such an extraordinary time.
03 February 2021
Wisdom Wednesdays: Education is the way out of reoffending
In the first of a new blog series, which looks at topics impacting frontline staff in our Justice services as well as our partners in the Justice sector, we outline our recommendations for a reform of the prison education system, and the impact this would have on a prisoner's ability to find long-term employment post-release.
01 February 2021
Catch22 CSE services create resources for Children's Mental Health Week
The Catch22 Stoke and Staffordshire CSE and Missing service have created a number of resources to support young people both in Staffordshire and nationwide during Children's Mental Health Week.
01 February 2021
Community Links to merge with Catch22
Social-action charity Community Links will merge with Catch22 on 1st February 2021. Community Links and Catch22 have shared back office and corporate services since early 2017 when Community Links joined the Catch22 Group. The merger is the next step in their relationship, after both boards decided to strengthen the partnership and merge fully.
29 January 2021
Digital skills and reskilling: an opportunity to address inequality
Economic recovery offers a fresh opportunity to address inequality; we can bridge the digital skills gap whilst supporting low-income earners to build their future, proposes Kat Dixon, Catch22's Head of Partnerships in this new blog.
28 January 2021
Partnerships and volunteering: Catch22 Employability
Incorporating a volunteering element into our partnerships work is something we strive for with our employability programmes. In this blog, Development Coordinator, Milly Harrison, looks at the impact this has for both participant and volunteer, and explores how we have adapted to provide remote opportunities over the last year.
22 January 2021
Catch22 respond to Home Office Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy
The Government have today released a strategy setting out their vision for preventing, tackling and responding to child sexual abuse.
22 January 2021
Reasons to be hopeful: tackling unemployment together in 2021
In this new blog, Catch22's Head of Partnerships, Kat Dixon, takes a look at the current unemployment figures in the UK. Sharing her hopes for the future, Kat looks at the drive we are seeing from people and organisations across the country who believe that we can tackle this together.
21 January 2021
Tackling the Digital Divide
Please join us on a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 3rd February at 10am, as we look to discuss the impact on children and young people, the lessons we can learn from schemes that are already in place - both from Government and phone companies – as well as tangible ideas for plugging the gaps that are still there.

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