Records of the Employment Department, Training Agency

Records created by the Training Agency for developing and delivering the government's training and vocational education programmes and responsibility for a range of government initiatives to promote enterprise through the Small Firms Service, Regional Enterprise Units and Enterprise Allowance Scheme.

Departmental Policies on the Training, Monitoring of Training Standards and Finances of Training and Enterprise Councils, EDG 1.

Employment Department: Training Agency registered files, EDG 2.

Policy and delivery of Enterprise Allowance Scheme records, EDG 3.

Employment Department Group: Skills Training Agency registered files, EDG 4.

Employment Department Group: Research and Evaluation on Government Training Programmes registered files, EDG 5.

Employment Department Group: Equal Opportunities Training registered files, EDG 6.

Employment Department Group: Training Enterprise and Education Directorate: Training Providers records, EDG 7.

Employment Department Group: Training Agency: Training and Enterprise Councils, EDG 8.

Topics

Labour

The Training Agency was created when the Manpower Services Commission was disbanded in 1988 and the Agency became directly responsible to the Secretary of State of Employment.

The Training Agency was the United Kingdom's national training authority operating as an executive agency in the Department of Employment.

The Training Agency developed and delivered the government's training and vocational education programmes; and had responsibility for a range of government initiatives to promote enterprise through the Small Firms Service, Regional Enterprise Units and Enterprise Allowance Scheme.

The Training Agency was discontinued as an agency in 1991 following a review of the Department of Employment's training, education and enterprise functions after the establishment of Training and Enterprise Councils with the functions transferred to the Training, Enterprise and Education Directorate.