The 5% Club – signatory to letter to the Prime Minister
In a letter, sent today to Prime Minister Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, and signed by The 5% Club, the Youth Employment Group is calling on the Government to adopt…
Read More Our Latest Thinking
Learning & development and employee wellbeing – members of The 5% Club ‘best in class’
Employers investing in long-term learning & development programmes see immediate improvements to staff wellbeing, according to new report L&D’s-role-in-employee-wellbeing-2023 The Open University and The 5% Club have released a new…
Read More 
Transparency and understanding will help the Apprenticeship Levy debate and its potential reform
The Apprenticeship Levy is an area of live debate within the Skills sector, with fact and fiction often coming together to create polarised positions. In this short article, Mark Cameron, CEO…
Read More 
Could some students be better off going to an FE college instead of university?
Social Mobility Commission calls for central information hub on labour market returns for HE and FE A new report out today shows a wide variation in how different higher education…
Read More 
Only 4% of employers are spending their full apprenticeship levy funding
New research from City & Guilds and The 5% Club finds that employers have spent an average of 55.5% of their apprenticeship levy funding in the last five years –…
Read More 
Apprenticeship Levy Reform – A Letter to the Chancellor
Today, as the new Government gets in its stride and back to business, and ahead of tomorrow’s “mini-budget”, The 5% Club calls for greater transparency, ease of access and efficiency…
Read More 
Reflections on Kickstart – An Expert Opinion from The 5% Club
The 5% Club publishes the latest in its series of Expert Opinions – this time on the Kickstart scheme which closed to new starts on 31 March 2022. The Kickstart…
Read More 
House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee report on ‘Skills for every young person’
We are delighted to share the House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee’s report on ‘Skills for every young person’, published today. CEO of The 5% Club, Mark Cameron OBE, gave evidence to the…
Read More 
Talent Inclusion – looking beyond the qualification filter
The 5% Club has published its latest paper “Talent Inclusion – looking beyond the qualification filter” which sets out the reasons why the current focus on qualifications and traditional…
Read More 
Leadership, Direction, and Action
In Leadership, Direction, and Action, CEO of The 5% Club, Mark Cameron, outlines his thoughts as to how investment in inclusive and accessible skills – ranging from work placements and…
Read More 
