Company joins elite of charter mark winners.

A PROVIDER of work- based learning for the hospitality industry and service sector is celebrating after recording a first for Wales.

Welshpool-based Cambrian Training Company is the first business in. Wales to achieve chartered employer membership of the Institute of Assessors and Internal Verifiers.

Only a dozen UK companies have achieved the quality assurance charter mark which is used to indicate that a company is committed to ensuring its staff meet the registration standards.

The company, which employs 34 people,also recently achieved Investors in People status, which recognises an organisation's commitment to quality staff training and development.

Cambrian's quality and curriculum manager Pat Burns said:``This charter mark will assure our clients that our training team are competent and continually developing.''

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Dr John Capney,chairman of the Institute of Assessors and Internal Verifiers,Cambrian managing director Arwyn Watkins and quality and curriculum manager Pat Burns with the award