Freelancers, the self-employed and small business owners – nearly four million people – have been left out of the government’s skills agenda, business groups have warned. The small business watchdog, SFEDI, has said that initiatives like Train to Gain, where skills brokers visit small businesses to determine training needs, do not work in reality for businesses with fewer than five people, as brokers tend to visit companies with larger numbers. The watchdog also criticised government funding that sees the self-employed and small businesses only receive £50m of the £550m annual spend on Train to Gain, Learn Direct and Sector Skills Councils, although they make up 25% of the workforce. Tony Robinson, founder of SFEDI, told Personnel Today: “Leitch hasn’t addressed small and home business owners. They’re missed out of top-level policy. Everybody should have the right to the skills to start up or run their own business, especially as we appear to be moving towards the US model,...

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