CCATF Chairman, Geoff Lister, has travelled all over the UK since January to talk to different groups of employers about apprenticeships. We are now nearly half way through 2011 and he is still hearing plenty of reports that businesses do not have enough confidence in the economy to take on an apprentice.
So this month he shares the story of a former apprentice and looks at how someone can go from apprentice to world champion - given the right opportunity.