Educational change in the Skills sector SMEs will not be involved in the new funding regime for apprenticeships until 2019 • The ROTO is to be changed to reflect the need for employers to determine if a provider can deliver. This thought was that this would mean we would have to reapply for ROTO after the SFA work on this model over the summer. • Providers may still have a contract up to the SMEs being fully engaged with the new funding model. However, it is unclear how this will totally look. • In May (around the 12th) ESIF may go into Purdah – due to the forthcoming referendum on EU membership

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Apprenticeships
• Small Businesses will not be involved in the new funding
regime for apprenticeships until 2019
Definition unclear on ‘Small Businesses’
• The ROTO is to be changed to reflect the need for
employers to determine if a provider can deliver
• The thought was that this may mean we may have to
reapply for ROTO after the SFA work on this model
over the summer
• Providers may still have a contract up to the Small
Businesses being fully engaged with the new funding
model. However, it is unclear how this will totally look

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ESIF
• In May (around the 12th) ESIF may go into Purdah – due to
the forthcoming referendum on EU membership
• The purdah period typically begins six weeks before
the scheduled voting date
“Under pressure from anti-EU Tories, the Prime Minister
has already conceded that there will have to be “purdah”
rules before the EU referendum, but the various sides
were embroiled in a complicated argument on how those
rules should apply”
(The Independent Tuesday 8 September 2015)
The only thing that remains certain at the moment is uncertainty