Birmingham MP visits ‘impressive’ JTL training centre

  Posted by: electrical-poster      3rd November 2017

Local member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley – Jess Phillips – recently paid a visit to the impressive JTL training centre in Aston in Birmingham to see local apprentices training to become electricians and heating and plumbing engineers.

She was greeted and shown around the recently refurbished centre by JTL’s regional business manager Ian Jervis and it was clear she was impressed by what she saw: “It was great to see the facilities at JTL’s centre in Aston and to meet with local apprentices who were undertaking their in-centre training time. Apprenticeships have a lot to offer to local young people, and it was fantastic to see first-hand the contribution they can make to filling skills gaps in the workforce.”

The Birmingham centre has recently undergone a major refit seeing increased space for the hands-on training areas on the ground floor and improved office facilities on the first floor with additional training rooms and a bright and airy new canteen area for both the apprentices and trainees and the staff who are based in the centre.

“We invited Jess and other MPs to our last Open Day at the Centre but she was unable to make it,” said Ian Jervis. “We were delighted however that she asked to come along and have a one to one visit on a day when she was in the city and we were happy to show her around and update her on what JTL is doing nationally and here in Birmingham and the West Midlands in particular.”