Actis’ Mark Cooper welcomes the changes to apprenticeships, but warns that a longer-term strategy is required to tackle the housing crisis and skills shortage.
Equality, diversity and inclusion has, until very recently, been seen as a vital part of business. In fact, no self-respecting organisation would be seen without it – and there is a good reason for that, Denise Chevin discovers.
Planning permission website Planning Portal – through which 97% of planning applications in England are submitted – has announced an update to its online platform to take account of forthcoming increases to planning fees (to take effect from April 2025).
Heat pumps are playing an increasingly important role in both new build and retrofit sectors – Charlotte Lee, Chief Executive of the Heat Pump Association (HPA), demystifies a few things.
With not long left until the government’s new Simpler Recycling reforms are implemented, statistics from commercial waste collection service Business Waste suggest that 99% of businesses are unprepared for the rule changes.
