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Employer? Employee? Come and have a look at MNHQ's Leadership Accelerator Programme for women returning to work

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RowanMumsnet · 09/11/2018 14:43

Hello

The 'Work' team here at MNHQ has put together a brand new training programme for women who have returned to work after an extended career break or maternity leave.

The 12-month Leadership Accelerator Programme is designed to get women into leadership positions, and leads to a Level 5 Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Leadership and Management.

Even better, if your company is a reasonably large one based in England or employing people in England it can be paid for in full by Apprenticeship Levy funds.

As some of you may know, tomorrow is Equal Pay Day - the day from which women employees effectively work for free until the end of the year (because of the gender pay gap). We're hoping the Accelerator Scheme is one example of the kind of thing that can help companies to close their gender pay gap.

So if you think it's the sort of course you've love to go on, or that women in your organisation might benefit from, we'd love it if you flagged it up to your HR team or manager.

Of course, if you are yourself the boss or the HR lead, please consider yourself flagged.

If you're interested in finding out more we'd love to hear from you - drop us a line on [email protected]

And, as ever, let us know what you think.

Thanks
MNHQ

RowanMumsnet · 12/11/2018 09:10

Hello - thank you all so much for the interest and comments. We'll get someone from the team who designed the course to come along and answer ASAP.

SueMumsnet · 12/11/2018 10:00

Hi all - just wanted to jump on and answer some of your questions as I was involved in creating our Leadership Accelerator Programme.

The first thing to say is that it's designed to be a course run by the company you work for - the company has to sign up to send employees on it. The costs are currently under review but it's in the region of £7k-£9k per participant and each company must send a minimum of 20 people on it. The good news is that it can be paid for fully out of a company's apprenticeship levy - which is a fund that we know many companies are struggling to spend.

@redcliff - yes it can be used for women who haven't had a career break - it is designed for any woman (or man) who has taken some time off for parenting reasons - so even if you've had a short maternity leave it applies.

@Rednaxela - yes it's fine for companies to send part-time employees on the course - we can pro-rata the hours per week it takes to complete to suit whatever hours you work.

@KeepCalm - it can only be paid for from the apprenticeship levy if participants live and work in England (because of complex govt rules around this) but firms can pay for it to be delivered to participants from anywhere

@April2020mom - see costs above - the course will last 12 months and yes you get a CMI Certificate in Leadership and Management at the end of it

@RahRahRooRah - because it's been designed to be largely funded from the apprenticeship levy it's mainly targeted at medium-large companies at the moment, but we're looking to see what else we can do for smaller companies

@jewel1968 - it's available to both men and women - anyone who's taken time off for parenting

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