Apprenticeships 4 England 2016 Apprenticeships BIG CHANGESAnd The Things That Make Me Worry… How are we to get on with the task in hand with so many distractions and so much uncertainty?

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Apprenticeships BIG CHANGES
And The Things That Make Me Worry…
Safaraz Ali
@Safaraz Ali

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SFA Contract Management
• Delays in, & rejections of, priority growth
requests
• Confusion about priorities
• Find a sub-contract?
• Hope for the best?
• Profiling by “averages”
• Restrictions to AGE grants
• Contract year vs. Financial year
• Uncertainty is normal – but this is exceptional
so who do you talk to?

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Helping Employers
• We are most employers’ connection
with apprenticeships
• What can we tell them:
• Levy?
• Trailblazers vs. SASE Frameworks?
• AGE grants?
• Funding availability?
There is still some uncertainty

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Apprenticeships –
The Only Game In Town
• Ill-prepared entrants to the market
• Ofsted say standards lowered in latest
inspections
• Government misunderstanding data (and
the programmes)
• Apprenticeship specialists still doing
well
• Too much emphasis on apprenticeships
misses the point

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Forgetting Why We Are Here
• Upskill the workforce
• Better opportunities for individuals
• Improved employer efficiency
• Improve the UK economy
How are we to get on with the task in
hand with so many distractions and so
much uncertainty?

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Lets think about it?
• Be careful what you wish for
• Hidden wiring for employers
• Ofsted, Financial Audits, matrix,
recruitment, prevent, safeguarding
• Doom and Gloom
• Uncertainty, change opportunities.
• Is there a life for a Prime in the apprenticeship arena
• All fishing in the same pool
• Lean and Agile meaning avoid or prevent being
over focused/subscribed in one funding area.
• Other option ESIF , UKES, (Walter Smith)

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3 million target – is this realistic
• Standing on your head- huge changes
in Apprenticeship funding
• Do we have the resources
• Ofsted/Quality
• Private training providers
administration/liquidation
cash/revenue problems
• Public sector 4.2 %
• is this realistic year on year

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Other Things to Consider
• Government and EU to consider
• Referendum June 2016 and it's
ramifications.
• Age UK - Grade 4
• Will be back in 2017/2018
• VAT on Training
• Not an even playing field for Training
Providers versus colleges
• College Mergers and Consolidation