While many companies may have paid lip service to the issue of racism in 2020, the unconscious, and sometimes explicit, bias of racism runs deep.

It’s become a cliché but the Covid-19 storm has not found us all in the same boat. The impact on income, on employment, even on the chances of contracting the virus and recovering, is hugely influenced by three factors – ethnicity, gender and poverty.

I had the pleasure of attending a recent webinar hosted by the Conservative Friends of the Armed Forces network.

In this monthly podcast series, we explore the changing trajectories across education, skills and employment.

World Youth Skills Day (15th July) comes as youth unemployment is soaring due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 1st April 2021 marked Service Commencement Day 1 (SCD 1) ‘day one’ of Capita’s 12-year training modernisation contract with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, commencing the newest chapter of Capita’s strategic relationship with defence and partnership with the MoD

Capita is undoubtedly an organisation with a good deal of its DNA in defence and security. We have worked with the Ministry of Defence for over a decade, and in January 2021 announced the latest demonstration of our MoD pedigree with a 10-year defence training contract with the Royal Navy.

We support over 8,000 apprentices to achieve their respective apprenticeship programmes every year across a broad range of subjects.

We’ve been partners with the British Army since 2012 to deliver the end-to-end recruitment and training of all British Army military personnel.

Jack Parsons is a 25 year old, award-winning digital entrepreneur and CEO of The Youth Group which is building a meaningful group of youth-first solutions, products, and services to create action and jobs for young people.