Panel session by Spencer Moore, Development Director,CIMSPA, Nigel Wallace, Client Services Consultant and Mac Cleves, Company Director, Mac Consultancy Services at the CIMSPA 2017 conference.

1. Apprenticeship reform – A Re-Cap
Spencer Moore Development Director

2. The Government Statement;
“Use it or Lose it”
This is for you as an employer to take this opportunity to create, develop and run
employer led programmes that suit your business, focuses on career progression
and staff retention, and overall the delivers best service delivery to the client

3. Apprenticeship changes
• Employer led apprenticeship standard
• End point assessment
• Funding
–Levy
–Co-investment
• Role of the employer
• Role of the training provider

4. National Apprenticeship Service
Hand Up!4
I am Aware - i.e. I know about the
changes to apprenticeships but I don’t
know what I need to do
I Understand the changes i.e. I
know what I need to do but have not
started yet
I am Planning my apprenticeship
programme but have not finalised
details yet
I am ready to go, I am Active and
waiting for 6th April 2017!

5. One role, “two sides of A4”
Example: personal trainer
KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING • BEHAVIOURS • SKILLS
The Apprenticeship standard – developed by employers

6. Delivery and end point assessment
• Employers will develop an appropriate training package that meets the
standard with the aim of getting the apprentice ready for the end point
assessment
• Employers may use registered an external training provider to support them on
the design and delivery of this or may to do it “in house”
• Any fees for this will be negotiated between the employer and training provider
• Once the employer and training provider feel the apprentices is ready they will
be put forward for end point assessment
• The Employer will contact a registered end point assessment agency and
agree a fee for the end point assessment.
• How this is funded depends on if you are an apprenticeship levy payer or not

7. National Apprenticeship Service
Key features: Apprenticeship levy7

8. National Apprenticeship Service
Non levy payers and co-Investment
Two types of employers:
1.Employers who haven’t paid the levy
2.A levy-paying employer with insufficient funds
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9. Non Levy Paying Employers
• No need to use the Apprenticeship Service until at least
2018 – but by 2020
• From 1st May choose apprenticeships you want to use
• Choose a register training provider
• 10% ‘Cash’ contribution to a provider
• non-levy paying employers will continue to negotiate and
agree their apprenticeship programme

10. Levy Paying Employers
• Register for your digital account 31st March!
• Using their Government Gateway ID, PAYE scheme details
and Companies House number or equivalent.
• Access funds from 1st May
• manage funding and apprentices, view account balance
and plan spending
• Stop or pause

11. What you can spend apprenticeship funding on –
all employers
• Funds in your apprenticeship service account, and funding provided by the
government through co-investment, can only be used towards the costs of
apprenticeship training and end point assessment. This must be with an
approved training provider and assessment organisation.
• It can’t be used on other costs associated with your apprentices or wider
training efforts. For example wages, statutory licences to practise, travel and
subsidiary costs, managerial costs, traineeships, work placement programmes
or the costs of setting up an apprenticeship programme

12. A Training Providers Perspective
Nigel Wallace

13. An Employer Provider View
Mac Cleves