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Sectors D-F

Including: Defence; Early years education and childcare; Education; Energy and utilities; Engineering; Food and drink manufacturing and processing

Defence  
Includes – Naval Services, Royal Air Force, Army, Civil Service, Volunteer and Regular Reserves, Sponsored Reserve; UK Defence Industrym
Occupational examples – aircraft technicians, survival equipment fitter, tank crewman, diver, marine engineering mechanic

Early years education and childcare  
Includes – providers for early years education, childcare and playwork (for children from birth to eight years) such as: full day care; childminders; crèches; sessional care; out of school clubs and holiday playschemes; family centres; and nannies
Occupational examples – childminders, nursery assistants, pre-school and playgroup leaders, teaching/classroom assistants, learning support assistants

Education
Includes – public and private education at any level or for any profession 
Occupational examples – academic librarian, adult education tutor, educational psychologist, further education lecturer, primary school teacher, higher education lecturer, pre-school or nursery teacher

Energy and utilities
Includes – electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
Occupational examples – gas network operative, team leader service layer, technician, domestic gas service engineer, electricity distribution engineers

Engineering – UPDATED! 
Includes – motor vehicle manufacture, aircraft and spacecraft, ship and boat building and repair, electronic equipment, basic metals and products, mechanical equipment
Occupational examples – professional engineers, electrical engineers, programmers, electrical maintenance, sheet metal workers, pipe fitters, design and development engineers

Financial services - UPDATED!
Includes – Banking and finance (Central banking; Banks; Building societies; Financial leasing; Credit granting; Factoring; Mortgage finance; Investment trusts; Real estate investment trusts; Unit trusts; Security dealing; Venture and development capital, including private equity; Open-ended investment companies; and Property unit trusts); Insurance (Life insurance; Life reinsurance; Non-life reinsurance; Pension funding; and Non-life insurance);  and Auxiliary financial services (Administration of financial markets; Fund management activities; Security and commodity contracts dealing activities; Risk and damage evaluation; and Insurance agents and brokers)
Occupational examples – actuary, banking manager, chartered accountant, corporate treasurer, credit analyst, tax adviser

Food and drink manufacturing and processing – NEW! 
Includes – bakery, brewing and distilling, convenience foods, dairy, fresh produce, meat and poultry, milling and cereals, fish processing, soft drinks and water, sweets and confectionery
Occupational examples – baker, butcher, technical brewer, food technologist/scientist, packaging technologists, consumer scientist, wine merchant

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