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