EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, shares insights into the Levy and additional funding available to UK employers. Learn more at eef.org.uk/apprenticeshiplevy

1. Learning Lessons from Levy

2. To create a world class, sustainable apprenticeship system offering large
volumes of high quality employer led apprenticeship opportunities to a diverse
range of individuals and to meet the skills needs of employers
Meet skills needs of employers
Widen participation in apprenticeships
Create more apprenticeships
Create progression for apprentices

3. Apprentice Levy - A recap
• The apprenticeship levy, launched April 2017, requires all UK employers with an
annual pay bill of £3million to pay 0.5% of their pay bill to invest in apprenticeship
training
• Fund a step change in apprenticeship numbers and quality; putting apprenticeship
funding on a sustainable footing and helping to deliver on the Government’s
commitment for 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020
• Give employers genuine control of the training they buy - purchasing the
apprenticeship training that they need from the provider(s) that they choose in
order to grow the skills of their business
• Employers who pay the levy and are committed to apprenticeship training will be
able to get out more than they pay in, through a 10% top-up applied to their
apprenticeship service account
• For non-levy paying employers government will
contribute 90% towards the cost of their
apprenticeship training

4. The detail support

5. 16-18 year olds
Government will pay £1,000 to employers,
and a further £1,000 to training providers if
they train a 16-18 year old apprentice
Disadvantaged young people
Government will pay £1,000 to employers,
and a further £1,000 to training providers if
they train 19-24 year olds leaving care or who
have a Local Authority Education, Health and
Care plan
Additional learning support
We will pay training providers up to £150 a
month to support these learners, plus
additional costs based on evidenced need
Deprivation
Providers will receive additional funding for
training apprentices living in the top 27%
deprived areas in the UK
Small Employers
Employers with fewer than 50 employees
will have 100% of the training and
assessment costs covered when training a
16-18 year old (or 19-24 year old formerly in
care or has a Local Authority Education,
Health and Care plan
Additional Funding support

6. Additional funding support support
• The Government have made commitments to consider certain elements of the funding policy
for 2018/19:
• Plan for employers to be able to transfer funds to others from 2018
• From April 2018 10% of annual funds to other employers (not limited to supply chain)
• Review disadvantage and LDD funding
• Public commitment to review current support for those from disadvantaged backgrounds
and identify more effective ways of supporting them in future, and review of support for
those with LDD needs
• Transitional funding on frameworks
• 17/18 policy includes transitional funding for training 16-18 year olds on frameworks
• The government will also consider emerging market behaviour and effectiveness of the
policy in general to assess whether any further changes are required for 2018/19.

7. Employers still need help

8. For more information, get in touch with us
Contact:
apprenticeshiplevy@eef.org.uk