Transparency data

Civil Service public sector apprenticeship return 2021-2022

Civil Service (England) apprenticeship starts for April 2021 to March 2022 with departmental breakdown.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Published: 29 September 2022

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Departmental Summary 2021-2022

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During the reporting period April 2021 to March 2022, 7,261 people started an apprenticeship, which equates to 1.8% of the Civil Service headcount. Although this is a slight decrease from the previous 12 months, 6 departments have met or surpassed the 2.3% target set at the start of the year.

In April 2022, we launched the 2022-2025 Civil Service Apprenticeship Strategy which focuses on ensuring quality of experience, assurance, and relevance. With this new strategy, our focus is on ensuring apprenticeships are a core element of all government departments’ strategic capability and workforce planning commitments. This strategy will help increase our apprenticeship uptake and align to the recently formed Government Campus, the government’s long term goal to create a digital platform for all civil service learning.

Over the last 12 months, the Civil Service has expanded its apprenticeship offer; continuing to introduce new standards that support Civil Service capability requirements. The Civil Service continues to prioritise skills for the future particularly in professions, such as, digital, cyber security, science and engineering and project delivery; bringing deeper technical and specialist skills that are required in modern government.

During the reporting period April 2021 to March 2022 (England only), over 78.4% of apprentices  were based outside of London. This is key to the government’s reform programme and levelling up commitment to enhance educational attainment and boost economic growth across the whole of the UK.

Summary:

• From April 2021 to March 2022, there were 7,261 apprenticeship starts in England. This is 1.8% of the overall headcount for the Civil Service (England).
• 3.6% of the Civil Service headcount (England) were apprentices as of 31 March 2022. The new strategy will push the Civil Service to achieve 5% by March 2025.
• These statistics cover Civil Service (England) apprenticeships only. Other public-sector bodies will publish separate data and the Department for Education will publish an overall analysis in November.

Statistics to be published:

• 2021-22 apprenticeship actual outturn starts by department (England)
• 2021-22 actual outturn starts as a percentage of the workforce headcount (at 31 March 2022) by department (England)

Published 29 September 2022