Amey launches apprenticeship academy
Nov 17 2010 by Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post
The infrastructure firm which maintains Birmingham’s roads has launched a new apprenticeship initiative which will create 40 jobs for young people in the region.
Amey is launching its Amey Apprenticeship Academy, which will bring together its young recruits from all of its contracts including Network Rail, Birmingham City Council’s highways maintenance PFI and the management of 1,500km of the West Midlands’ trunk roads and motorways for the Highways Agency.
As part of the initiative, the firm is creating 100 new apprenticeships, with 40 in the West Midlands.
Amey chief executive Mel Ewell said the firm had a responsibility to try to tackle high rates of joblessness among young people in the region.
Mr Ewell added: “The West Midlands has a real issue around youth unemployment and we’re going to be working very hard indeed with all our stakeholders to try and find ways of getting these young people back into employment.
