My unit has continued training throughout the pandemic for ATCOs working towards their second validation, restarted training for previously valid at other unit ATCOs in December, and will soon restart the training of a new ATCO. Fairly early on in the pandemic the decision was taken that stopping all training to wait for traffic levels to pick up to busy levels would potentially lead to staff shortages in the next couple of years, as we might be waiting for something that never happens and meanwhile we have staff coming up for retirement etc.