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It would be an odd world in which care was lavished upon kids, say, two years old and up, but littler children were left to their own devices.  That's sort of the situation with micro businesses in the UK, though, and the Federation of Small Businesses is aiming to fix the problem.

With respect to the UK's "Train to Gain" program, Colin Willman, the FSB's Education and Skills Chairman, stated, "The FSB welcomes extra funding for, and the focus on, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the increased flexibility. But much of the Government's training offer goes over the heads of the hardest to reach small firms because the training available is inappropriate for the majority of the country's smallest businesses, and because it still isn't flexible enough."

 

He then explained, "A small business with only two employees needs to be able to train its staff in a way that doesn't force them to be out of the office for days on end - especially during a recession when the business needs to be functioning on all cylinders.  What we really need is dedicated training for the smallest firms, in the form of a new Small Business Sector Skills Council."

Which sounds reasonable enough, right?

Hopefully the government will be able to break up its training sessions into more manageable pieces and extend certain offers to businesses with very few employees.