Hiring and training an apprentice

Hiring an apprentice, using the apprenticeship service, funding guidance, plus a list of apprenticeship training providers.

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Services

• Employing an apprentice

  How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.

• Apprenticeship agreement: template

  This agreement must be signed by the apprentice and the employer at the start of the apprenticeship.

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Guidance and regulation

• Apprenticeship funding rules
  • Detailed guide
  • 17 June 2024
  • Department for Education
• How to register and use the apprenticeship service as an employer
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 August 2024
  • Department for Education
• Apprenticeships: off-the-job training
  • Guidance
  • 19 October 2023
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Finding an end-point assessment organisation
  • Guidance
  • 24 October 2024
  • Department for Education
• Search for apprenticeship standards
  • Detailed guide
  • 29 June 2021
  • Closed organisation: Institute for Apprenticeships

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News and communications

• Without skills, businesses are “driving with the handbrake on”
  • 22 June 2023
  • Department for Education, Department for Business and Trade, and HM Treasury
  • Press release
• 2022 Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers ranking open for entries
  • 10 February 2022
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • News story
• Flexible apprenticeships to boost jobs in key sectors
  • 10 February 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Applying for Ofqual recognition
  • 12 January 2021
  • Ofqual
  • Case study
• New co-chair of Apprenticeship Delivery Board is appointed
  • 3 July 2018
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Welfare and duty of care in Armed Forces initial training
  • 24 September 2024
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Apprenticeship evaluation 2018 to 2019: learner and employer surveys
  • 26 March 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Apprenticeship and levy statistics: December 2018
  • 20 December 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Apprenticeships: developing skills for future prosperity
  • 22 October 2015
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Engaging small and medium enterprises in apprenticeships
  • 15 January 2015
  • Ofsted
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Flexi-job apprenticeships: reshaping the role of apprenticeship training agencies
  • 3 August 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 01 June 2021
• Institute for Apprenticeships: draft operational plan
  • 18 April 2017
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Institute for Apprenticeships
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 27 February 2017
• Apprenticeship funding: eligible and ineligible costs of training
  • 8 September 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Supporting young people to develop the skills for apprenticeships and other sustained jobs: a discussion paper
  • 10 January 2013
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Expert apprenticeship training providers
  • 25 October 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• HM Treasury
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Business & Trade

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