{"id":30754,"date":"2021-08-03T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30754"},"modified":"2021-08-03T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T17:33:13","slug":"new-trailblazer-apprenticeship-for-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30754","title":{"rendered":"New Trailblazer apprenticeship for Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Minister for Apprenticeships Gillian Keegan has signed off the funding for a stonemasonry Trailblazer apprenticeship, the final step in giving stone its own apprenticeship.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026for skills such as site fixing, stone cleaning and memorial masonry\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The <em>Stone Specialist<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The apprenticeship has units especially for skills such as site fixing, stone cleaning and memorial masonry.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Turner, a Director of Stone Restoration Services in Ongar, Essex, and chair of the Natural Stone Industry Training Group (NSITG), has led what has turned out to be a protracted process of achieving the Trailblazer. She worked alongside Claire Wallbridge, Administrator of the NSITG and Training Officer of Stone Federation&#8217;s StoneTrain training arm, and others from the stone industry&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the Stonemasonry Trailblazer on the Institute of Apprenticeships website:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforapprenticeships.org\/apprenticeship-standards\/stonemason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instituteforapprenticeships.org\/apprenticeship-standards\/stonemason<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonespecialist.com\/news\/training\/stone-finally-gets-its-trailblazer-apprenticeship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Apprenticeships Gillian Keegan has signed off the funding for a stonemasonry Trailblazer apprenticeship, the final step in giving stone its own apprenticeship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30787,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}