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A trainee solicitor is helping people to fight for justice thanks to the Liverpool City Region Mayor’s campaign to reallocate unspent Apprenticeship Levy.
Earlier this year, Steve Rotheram launched a drive to encourage big employers to transfer tens of millions of pounds of unspent Apprenticeship Levy funding to help smaller firms fund local training.
To date the Combined Authority has helped to transfer 3.2m of unspent levy funding to create 695 apprenticeships.
Not-for-profit Equality & Employment Law Centre, which specialises in employment and discrimination, has received unused apprenticeship money from TV shopping channel QVC, which was reassigned through the Apprenticeship Levy transfer scheme.
Solicitor Aoife McGovern has passed her final law exams, following an apprenticeship funded through the levy transfer. Meanwhile, her colleague Maria Davies, 21, is entering the final year of a four-year government apprenticeship.
Aoife McGovern said:
“I moved to Liverpool from London to do my law degree and once I graduated from university I started working as a paralegal for around two years before joining the apprenticeship scheme which I have recently finished and...
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