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Food for Thought - All about the National Skills Academy for Retail On a monthly basis, we will offer ‘food for thought' and share a few words of wisdom surrounding staff training and development.

This month, we are sharing information about the National Skills Academy for Retail, of which The Source is a founder member. 

The National Skills Academy for Retail provides access to consistent, high quality training for retail businesses, their employees and future workforce, delivered through a network of quality-marked retail skills shops. The Source is the retail skills shop for South Yorkshire and can support retailers across the region.

Retail is the largest private sector employer in the UK with 291,000 businesses, three million employees and an annual turnover of £265 billion. The National Skills Academy for Retail plays a key role in driving forward skills and qualifications for current and future employees within this vast sector.

Consisting of a network of retail skills shops in shopping centres and high streets across the country - as well as a number of virtual skills shops - the National Skills Academy for Retail offers a host of services. These include business support for retailers of all sizes and in any location, a consistent national approach for retail training and the provision of authoritative labour market intelligence. Retailers benefitting from the National Skills Academy for Retail, include:  

• Well-known multiple high-street and retail park chains
• Small independent chains
• Single store owners

The Source was awarded National Skills Academy status in 2009 and offers comprehensive services for retailers, ranging from recruitment support and government funded training schemes, to friendly and impartial advice. If you would like advice about recruitment, staff development or additional business support, contact Mike Denby on 0114 2635625.