TRAINING & EDUCATION
The Ins And Outs Of Apprenticeships
This year has seen the introduction of key government reforms to apprenticeship funding and frameworks and will give many care providers cause to review their current training models, as Tracy Johnson, Head of Quality & Compliance at Heathcotes Group, explains…
As of May, the way apprenticeships are financed changed significantly with two new funding models brought in. Employers with a payroll of over £3 million will be required to pay an Apprenticeship Levy which amounts to 0.5% of their payroll bill. Non-levy- paying employers will have access to a co-funding arrangement. Each standard has a funding cap and the Skills Funding Agency will pay up to that capped price.
The Apprenticeship Levy is paid into a Digital Apprenticeship Service (DAS) account, which employers can access to fund apprenticeship learning and find
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a range of approved training resources. The government tops the Levy fee up by 10% and the employer pays the full cost for any subsequent apprenticeship until the Levy funds run out. Aſter that, the employer pays 10% towards any apprenticeship and the government pays the remainder.
Non-levy-paying employers contribute 10% towards the cost of any apprenticeship and the government pays the rest. Unlike levy-paying employers, they won’t be formally required to use the DAS account until at least 2018 but the service will be
available for their use in finding suitable apprentices, frameworks, and training and assessment providers. Assistance with this is available from the National Apprenticeship Service. In addition, incentives will be paid to employers with fewer than 50 employees, those taking on 16-18 year olds and upon successful completion of the Apprenticeships.
The second major government reform to arrive by the end of the year applies to qualification frameworks. The current Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) will be replaced by the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) by
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