Council Backs Jobs Program

Key points

• South Burnett Regional Council has partnered with Golden West Apprenticeships and TAFE Queensland's Kingaroy campus to offer Work Skills Traineeships to local job seekers. Eleven trainees will work for 26 weeks, from mid-October to mid-March, on council projects.
• Tasks include building Christmas display boxes, restoring park benches, installing parking bollards and welding pig traps. Trainees will study a Certificate I in Construction.
• The project is funded by the State Government's Skilling Queenslanders for Work program.