Update with reference to the new Apprenticeship Standards funding model for none levy paying Employers:

The New Apprenticeship standards:

Extract from:

Apprenticeship Funding

Apprenticeship funding in England from May 2017

Small employer co-investment waiver

38. We know that smaller employers have historically played a very important role in helping young people into the workforce for the first time. We want to continue to support smaller employers to take on younger apprentices.

39. Employers with fewer than 50 people working for them will be able to train 16 to 18 year old apprentices without making a contribution towards the costs of training and assessment up to the funding band maximum. Instead the government will pay 100% of the training costs for these individuals. Nine out of ten non-levied employers responding to our survey agreed or strongly agreed with this proposal, with only 4% disagreeing. A significant majority of levied employers (79%) and providers (81%) also agreed.

Extract from:

Guidance: Apprenticeship funding: how it will work

Updated 13 February 2017

Employers that don’t pay the levy

If you do not pay the levy, you won’t need to use the apprenticeship service to pay for apprenticeship training and assessment until at least 2018. When we ask you to start using the apprenticeship service to pay for apprenticeship training, we will help you to prepare.

When the new funding system begins in May 2017, you can choose the training you’d like your apprentices to receive, an approved training provider and an assessment organisation using the registers available on the apprenticeship service. Help with this is available from the National Apprenticeship Service. 

If you would like to join our Employer forum to keep up to date with the new changes to standards please email: sally.marsh@oracle-uk.com