Industry bags £1.4m to build Green Deal skills

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Training should help firms secure the 100,000 retrofitting jobs expected to be created by the flagship energy efficiency scheme

A coalition of skills groups have secured £1.4m of public funding to help employers train their staff to install and repair energy efficiency measures such as loft or cavity wall insulation. The money...

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