We will now fund the cost of their training in full. This will cut costs for businesses and Training Providers and support thousands more young people to start an apprentice. Make uks Chief Operating Officer is ben fletcher. A little earlier he told me why his members were still quite optimistic, despite a difficult outlook,. A lot of this comes from the fact that manufacturers are an extremely hardy bunch. They are, by definition, problem solvers. They are about how you take a problem and fix it and get through it. Our members have always been resilient and optimistic and positive, and they have a great deal of faith in they have a great deal of faith in the work they do in the sector. I think the challenges, for a variety of reasons, loss of our markets and the integrated supply chain is that we are part of a cross europe, they are depressed because economy in all of our Major Trading partners are not strong at the moment. There are some significant and ongoing issues with Energy Pri
is at a record high and paid its shows that almost 2005000 households were living in temporary accommodation and i 111,000 of those households now live in hotels and bed and breakfasts and 131,000 children are numbers of those households. these figures represent the highest scene at a of a century let s talk about this for the next few minutes and let s talked to francesca, director of policy for social change at the homeless charity crisis and thank you for being here on the programme ended in terms of the basic headlines numbers, your assessment stop you what we ve seen rising numbers of people trapped in temporary accommodation that has reached a record high. find accommodation that has reached a record high- accommodation that has reached a record hiuh. ., , ., record high. and we haven t been for several decades record high. and we haven t been for several decades and record high. and we haven t been for several decades and more record high. and we haven t been for sev