How to keep yourself, your employees and customers safe from COVID-19. Coronavirus control plan: autumn and winter 2021 update This update to the coronavirus control plan focuses on the options available to us over the autumn and winter period, visit Coronavirus control plan: autumn and winter 2021 update | GOV.WALES COVID-19 alert levels Visit COVID-19 alert levels | Sub-topic | GOV.WALES New measures will be introduced from 6am on Boxing Day to help keep Wales...
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Recruiting an apprentice can help you expand your workforce and its skills base. Support is available towards the cost of training and assessments. To help businesses recruit apprentices, Welsh Government are offering incentives until 28 February 2022 (subject to budget availability). By employing an apprentice, you can: reduce your recruitment costs build a skilled and motivated workforce tailored to your business expand your business fill any skills gaps future-proof your business increase productivity Businesses of...
Tackling health inequalities and more help to help people quit are key parts of a new plan to make Wales smoke-free by the end of the decade. The Welsh Government has launched the consultation for the long term tobacco control strategy, A Smoke-free Wales. It will be open until 31 January 2022. The target of the strategy is a smoke-free Wales by 2030, which means less than 5% of the population smoking. Whilst around 14%...
The Welsh Government have published the outcome of the exercise to identify opportunities to significantly scale up renewable energy in Wales, please see the points below that may be of interest to businesses in Wales. Recommendations: 18. We will work with the UK Government to bring new investment to ports in Wales. We will work with ports in Wales to identify opportunities for specialisation and collaboration, and to make Welsh ports investment ready. We call...
The Welsh Government is issuing strong guidance to support people across Wales through the Christmas period. Wales will then introduce new restrictions, including for businesses and services – from 27 December 2021. This will include a 2m rule on social distancing in offices and putting extra measures in place to protect customers and staff, such as one-way systems and physical barriers. Nightclubs will also close. These tougher restrictions are needed to help control the spread...
The UK government’s flagship renewable energy support scheme is now open to applications, with £285 million available a year for building the next generation of Great Britain’s green energy projects. Renewable energy projects across Great Britain can now bid for funding in the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which is aiming to secure 12GW of electricity capacity – more renewable capacity than the previous 3 rounds combined. The additional offshore wind...
Have you ever seen or heard something out of order happen at work? Have you ever heard a work colleague or friend make a dodgy comment but not sure how to call it out? A new campaign calling on the public to challenge assumptions about harassment against women - often wrongly seen as ‘harmless’ - has launched across Wales. The Welsh Government wants to help raise awareness amongst Wales’ different communities of the behaviours associated...
New requirements will be introduced for importing some SPS goods, such as meat or plants, to Great Britain from the EU from 1 January 2022. Pre-notification will be required for imports to Great Britain of most products of animal origin, animal by-products, high risk food not of animal origin and regulated plants and plant products from the EU. Businesses (or a representative acting on their behalf) importing these goods from the EU may be required...
The Welsh Government is working with Monmouthshire Building Society to accelerate the establishment and roll-out of a community bank, Banc Cambria, across Wales, Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething. The Welsh Government’s Programme for Government includes a commitment to support the creation of a Community Bank for Wales, in order to seek to address the market failure in relation to the gap in provision, the effectiveness and the quality of banking services in Wales. An increasing number...
BioAccelerate is AberInnovation’s investment-readiness accelerator programme for early-stage businesses and startups designed to help you bring your innovative idea to fruition. Applications are now open to individuals or groups who wish to develop a new product or service in the bioscience, healthcare, agri-tech or food and drink sectors. There is £60,000 in Innovation support available. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 21 December 2021. For further information visit https://aberinnovation.com/en/our-community/bioaccelerate