Leicestershire training firm profit from NVQ success

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A specialist Leicestershire training firm is celebrating signing up their 200th candidate in NVQ Level 2 Plant Operations with help from Train to Gain, the Government skills service run by the Learning and Skills Council.

Train to Gain is a Skills Brokerage service, managed and funded by the Learning and Skills Council, that helps employers find the training they need for their employees.

Keith Cook Training Services near Coalville started to run its courses in May 2007.

The success of the NVQ has meant the company, who specialise in training East Midlands' plant operators, from forklift truck drivers to dump truck drivers, has taken on four new members of staff - three new trainers and assessors and one administrative assistant.

Managing director Keith Cook: "We recognised there was a huge demand for the NVQ Plant Operations Level 2 as it is now a requirement to hold this qualification in order to operate plant on major construction sites.

"With the help of the LSC, we have been able to offer this qualification to our existing customers and many are only too pleased to help their staff to achieve the qualification, in line with Government recommendations.

"It's been a huge success and we're thrilled to be signing up our 200th learner, Susan Ottey, who's also the first woman to sign up for the course. Susan has worked at Standard Soap in Ashby de la Zouch for 20 years, operating a counterbalance and a reach truck."