Actually my area of expertise - although I've been off the tools for quite sometime. He might like to look at Ideal Networks, Start Communications or even Focus Group - all local to the Brighton area. Further afield Aptum in Havant often take on apprentices.
Indeed AZ900 would be a good qualification to get. @Gwylan - might be worth getting a subsciption to Cloud Guru - has courses in Azure, AMS and GCP - the three main clouds. Cost ~£250 for a years unlimited use.
Also depends on which area of IT he wants to work in - we all get lumped in together but there numerous fields within IT. Given you've mentioned C# - although suspect you mean C++ - I suspect developing is his field of choice. In which case it might be worth looking at Thales in Crawley.
It's annoying as they've dropped the guest pie details from the pre-match brief email - the only info worth knowing in it. Also the guest pies don't seem to change very often. I'm not there today but I'd have a shrewd guess at it being Chicken Balti.
Strictly speaking Sat Navs aren't allowed to tell you of an impending speed camera in France. Mine just tells me there's a 'danger zone' in the next mile or two. All Top Gun references will be ignored !
Ditto.
Also when we used to shop online it was far too easy to over spend - I can't explain why going to the supermarket stops that over spend.
Oh, and I do 90% of the shop in Aldi who don't do home delivery.
I agree with a vast part of your post EXCEPT VG3 - nothing but a very expensive vanity project at a high price to the local taxpayer that will cause traffic chaos. It's attempting to solve a problem that isn't real.
I don't think the issue is poor regulation - just poor enforcement. There's endless stories of restaurants, owned by 'those not from here', ignoring the requirement to prove you can work in the UK short of making every employer apply to a government department to check if a potential employee...