In Brief: Bakery adopts training system; Liberty re-signs Clipper; and more
BARNSLEY-based Foster’s Bakery has embarked on an innovative staff training campaign in conjunction with deliciouslyorkshire.
Byte online, launched by deliciouslyorkshire in 2010, is a training service for catering, hospitality, manufacturing and food retailers across the UK and has enabled Foster’s Bakery to reduce costs while increasing the number of staff being put through specific training.
Tom Allot, trainer at Foster’s Bakery, said: “We now have 360 users online which is amazing as we would never usually be able to train such a vast volume of our staff at the same time.
“The byte online system works well for our business as it’s cost effective, flexible, and the support we receive from the deliciouslyorkshire team is amazing. We’ve customised the programme as we needed and currently have courses running on food hygiene, manual handling, health and safety and even gluten free.”
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DEPARTMENT store Liberty London has renewed its contract with Yorkshire-based Clipper Logistics Group.
Clipper has been providing logistic solutions for the department store since 1997, when it initially started working with Liberty Fabrics.
The logistics specialist has since worked closely with Liberty to implement an efficient warehouse operation and the contract will see Clipper introducing a number of new initiatives to improve operations and service to the store.
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RESEARCH by a Yorkshire law firm has revealed that nearly two million homeowners in Britain aged 35-54 expect they will have to sell their home during their retirement to meet their or their partner’s care costs if they were to become infirm.
Key findings by York-based law firm Dickinson Dees’ survey include that 44% of British homeowners between the ages of 35 and 54 expect to have to sell their home to fund the cost of either residential or home care.
The research, based on a study of almost 4,500 adults, has lead Nicholas Payne, a solicitor Dickinson Dees, to urge families to talk about the issue of future care so they can take pre-emptive action.
He said: “Our study reveals that more than half the British population believe the government should be picking up the bill for care costs for the elderly although it is most unlikely that they will: either in the short or long term. The stark reality is nearly half (44%) of Great Britain’s middle aged homeowners expect to lose their home if they have to foot the bill themselves.
“Families need to break the taboo of silence on infirmity and mortality that currently leads to two generations being robbed of a pleasant retirement, replacing it with the misery of a battle to meet escalating care costs. Plans need to be drawn up when people reach retirement, not once they are already drifting into infirmity and the risk of health problems.”
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