Apprenticeships in the South West – Performance,Priorities and Challenges

Presented by Mark Howard to the South West Regional Skills Partnership 10 December 2012

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Content

National Apprenticeship Service

• Headline SW performance and Challenges Full year in 11/12 and quarter 1 of 12/13

• Our Priorities & Challenges

• Doing more in the SW/How can you help

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Performance

National Apprenticeship Service

(last full year ending July 2012)

Overall+9.8% starts in SW (% up compared to +9.9% nationally)

16-18-1.2% (national fall of -4.1%)

19-24+8.9% (national up by +9.0%)

25 plus+17.8% 25 plus (national up by +20.7%)

Success rates remain the best in the Country

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Performance(16-18)

National Apprenticeship Service

Growing 16-18BaNES Cornwall DevonGloucestershire Plymouth South Gloucestershire Swindon

Reducing 16-18Bournemouth Bristol DorsetNorth Somerset Poole SomersetTorbay Wiltshire

Reducing 19-24Torbay

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Our priorities

• Quality, quality, quality

• 16-24 Starts

• Richer mix

• Engaging more Employers

• Equality of access/participation/achievement

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Challenges and Changes

National Apprenticeship Service

• Making sense of policy and funding proposals

• Making it simpler for employers to access the help they need

• Encouraging innovation/Employer ownership and maintaining quality

• Possible (Probable) new pre vocational offer/ ‘Traineeships’

• More work with Young People

• Greater Rigour

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Doing more in the South WestHow can you help?

• More potential Apprentices and more new employers

• Positioning of Apprenticeships within Partner Offers

• Advocacy/Joint approaches

• New routes to Market

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Questions/Discussion

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National Apprenticeship Service