Everything you didnt want to know about Apprenticeships, but were afraid you might be asked

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Everything you didnt want to know about
Apprenticeships, but were afraid you might be
asked?

• Eamonn Gilbert
• Skills Development Manager - Apprenticeships
• Summer Campaign Briefing
• 28th May 2008

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Apprenticeships

• What is an Apprenticeship?
• Employer / Business benefits
• Content of an Apprenticeship
• Apprenticeship Funding
• London Performance 2007/8
• Occupations the SSC the Summer Campaign
• N.A.S. National Apprenticeship Strategy / Service
• London Plan for Growth / Summer Campaign
• Important Links

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What is an Apprenticeship?

• Work based training programme
• Aimed at current and future employees
• Designed by business for business
• Focus on the whole job, not just individual
  skills
• On and off-the-job education and training

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Apprenticeships Structure

• Categories 16-18 year olds and 19 (incl 25)
• Employed Status
• Available at two levels
• Apprenticeship to Level 2
• Equivalent to 5 GCSEs A- C grade
• Advanced Apprenticeship to Level 3
• Equivalent to 2 A Levels

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Benefits to Employers

• Better-trained employees, with the right skills
• Improved productivity
• Motivated and loyal workers
• Potential managers / Leaders of the future
• Improved retention especially in high turnover
  sectors
• Addressing Skills Shortages

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Content of Apprenticeship

• An Apprenticeship is not a qualification in
  itself
• Common structure to all apprenticeships
• Specific content determined by Sector Skills
  Councils
• 180 Frameworks covering 80 industry sectors

Apprenticeship
NVQ Competence Based
Tech Cert Theoretical Underpinning Knowledge
Key skills qualifications
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Funding Apprenticeships

• 16 -18 year olds, full training cost met by the
  LSC
• 19 Employer Fee Assumption, expected (37 -50)
• Frameworks funded at different rates, see 2007/8
  funding guidance Annex B for examples or LAD
• IT User FW L2 16-18 3,662 19 2,106 with 42.5
  fee
• Employer pays the Apprentice salary
• LSC contract, minimum wage of 8000 per week

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London Apprenticeship Performance
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Apprenticeship Performance

• Top 10 London F/works 2006/07 all App SR
• Children's Care, Learning Development 59
• Hairdressing 58
• Business Administration 67
• Customer Service 57
• Construction 36
• Hospitality Catering 40
• Vehicle Maintenance Repair 40
• Retail 53
• Electrotechnical 43
• Plumbing 59

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Apprenticeships the Future

• National Apprenticeship Service April 2009
• 16-18 App entitlement by 2013 5 to 20!
• End to end Responsibility for all App Provision
• Matching Service, Learners, Employer, Provider
• London I.D. as especially poor performing region
• Increase Apps from 240,000 to 400,000 by 2020

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The London Plan for Growth

• Shadow Arrangements in Place 2008/9
• London Trials Overtraining, GTA, Incentives,
  Mentors, BAME
• Increase Participation (Starts)
• 2008/9 9,781, 2009/10 10,624 2010 11,151 by
• Increased focus on SSCs Frameworks

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London Summer Campaign 22nd May - 31st October

• Target to Increase Overall App participation by
  200
• Overall employer response rate of 3
• Retail
• Construction
• Hospitality Catering
• Active Leisure
• Business Admin /
• Customer Service / (Cross Cutting)
• IT User /
• LSC staff to follow up Employer leads from the
  campaign convert into apprenticeship starts

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Employer needs / Knowledge?

• SME Requests French Polishing Apprenticeship?
• This was available 20 years ago, why not now?
• We have 17 year old employee? Why do we have to
  pay 8,000?
• Sector Skills Council Proskills website
• Identify Framework L2, Making Installing
  Furniture code (5614) Modular
• Identify suitable provider?

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Apprenticeships

• Training the future workforce for business

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Important Links

• List of LSC funded Apprenticeships
• http//www.apprenticeships.org.uk/list/apprentices
  hipsdirectory/
• Retail http//www.skillsmartretail.com/
• Construction http//www.constructionskills.net/
• Hospitality Catering http//www.people1st.co.uk
  /
• Active Leisure SSC http//www.skillsactive.com
  /
• Business Admin http//www.cfa.uk.com/index.html
• Customer Service http//www.instituteofcustomerse
  rvice.com/
• IT User http//www.e-skills.com/

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Important Links

• World Class Apprenticeships Unlocking Talent,
  Building Skills for All
• DIUS website
• http//www.dius.gov.uk/publications/world_class_ap
  prenticeships.pdf
• LSC Apprenticeship Website
• http//www.apprenticeships.org.uk/