Guidance

Apprenticeship training provider accountability framework

The framework and specification the Department for Education (DfE) uses to review the quality of apprenticeship training from providers.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

We use this framework to review the quality of apprenticeship provision of all ages. This guidance sets out our expectations, including the:

  • policy framework’s key principles and objectives
  • indicators and thresholds we’ll use to review provider quality
  • range of interventions we may take where provider quality issues are identified

The framework is for all providers currently delivering apprenticeships and sits alongside the:

Updates to this page

Published 7 February 2023
Last updated 6 June 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated 'Apprenticeship training provider accountability framework and specification' with information about new thresholds and benchmarked data.

  2. Updated 'Apprenticeship training provider accountability framework and specification' with changes to the sections on apprentice feedback, withdrawals, apprentices past planned end date, break in learning. In this update, we are retaining the same indicators, but we are introducing higher thresholds for 3 of the 10 indicators and removing the 250-apprentice threshold that applied to 3 of the measures.

  3. Added a link to the apprenticeship workforce development programme.

  4. First published.

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