Recent research reveals a critical skills gap in manufacturing workforce for net zero goals with less than one in 10 workers possessing the skills they need to deliver the government’s net zero pledge by 2050.

One of the fiercest challenges the manufacturing industry faces this year is the ever-widening skills shortage and talent crisis, which is costing the UK an estimated £7 billion in lost economic output, the equivalent of around £21 million per day lost in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).