WORK is under way to make sure a new training and education body 'hits the ground running'.
The Lancashire Learning and Skills Council comes into effect next spring and will replace the current training and enterprise network which includes ELTEC.
A task group has been set up to be made up of TECs, county and local councils and the North West Development Agency.
"The task group is determined to ensure that the LSC can make maximum impact from day one, underpinning and building Lancashire's progress towards a better educated and skilled workforce," said Mark Price, chief executive of ELTEC.
Earlier this year the Government decided that there will be one Learning and Skills Council for Lancashire, despite calls for separate ones covering the east and west of the county.
The LSCs will replace the current training and enterprise network, including ELTEC, which is being disbanded in 2001.
But East Lancashire is getting its own Small Business Service, the new body which will take over the enterprise work done by TECs as part of the shake-up.
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