Welcome

Apprenticeship Reform and Trailblazers

5 June 2014

Kay Butterfield

Why are we Reforming Apprenticeships?

What are the main aims of the reforms?

High quality

Employer drivenSimple

Trailblazers and Standards

Phase 1 Trailblazers cover the following 8 sectors:

Standards are published on Apprenticeship website

http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/employers/steps-to-make-it-happen/ap

prenticeship-standards.aspx

Aerospace Automotive

Digital Industries Financial Services

Life & Industrial Sciences

Energy & Utilities

Food & Drink Manufacturing

Electrotechnical

Trailblazers and Standards

Phase 2 Trailblazers 29 sectors announced developing 35 Standards

Accountancy ActuaryAdult Social

CareAirworthiness

AutomotiveRetail

Aviation Butchery Cinema Civil Service Construction

Conveyancing Craft Dental Health Early YearsEmerging

Technologies

Hair and Beauty HorticultureHospitality and

TourismHousing Insurance

Land-based Engineering

Law Maritime Media Nursing

PropertyServices Rail Design Retail Travel

Respond

Adapt

Deliver

Providers getting ready to:

Respond

A future where employers will be the true custodians of what and when an Apprenticeship

is an Apprenticeship

Adapt

A future where HOW you deliver is as important as WHAT you deliver

Deliver

A future where providers must truly listen to employers and deliver delivery solutions that

work for each and every one of them

Apprenticeship Reform

Funding Models

CURRENT POSITION

Funding Elements-3 blocks

Key Principle – £2 of Government funding to £1 Employer funding

A - Funding that will go directly to employers (to use as they wish)

B - Agency/employer co-funding of provision (Maximum Gov Contribution)

C Agency Funding directly to providers - no employer contribution required

5 Bands replacing hundreds of rates

KEY BENEFITS

ANY QUESTIONS?