Agenda

• Sharing insights on ESFA’s policy on apprenticeships funding, the Apprenticeship Levy and the future funding landscape
• Outlining the latest funding rules in the transition to the apprenticeship service for employers and updates on the funding system and apprenticeship levy for training and assessing apprentices
• Assessing the different funding rules and regulations which apply to employers, providers and employer-providers
• Exploring how the ESFA works in engaging employers and employer groups through the National Apprenticeships Service to increase participation in apprenticeships

• Evaluating the ongoing challenges of apprenticeship funding and how to ensure sustainable funding that supports the needs of employers and learning providers
• Sharing the success of the new ‘Good to Great’ programme which has supported good providers in becoming great across five core areas of operation
• Understanding how to meet employer demand for apprenticeships despite non-levy funding allocation falling short of needs
• Exploring the AELPs 10 point sustainable investment plan to help increase the impact apprenticeships and skills training has on workforce productivity and social mobility

• Outlining how Ofqual regulate and monitor the delivery of End Points Assessments through the life of the assessment
• Discussing the role of Ofqual working in collaboration with trailblazers and providers to ensure they get what they want and expect from the assessments
• Using lessons learned from the regulation of End Point Assessments to inform our regulatory strategy
• Ensuring successful compliance with the end points assessment rules and guidance

• Outlining the role of the Office for Students and its responsibility for quality assessment of some apprenticeships including as the regulator for HE apprenticeships
• Sharing the working arrangement with Ofsted in regulating level 4 and 5 apprenticeship provision and the progress of the ongoing pilot
• Ensuring the quality of apprenticeships training provision from level 4 to level 7 through a risk-base approach to quality assurance and outlining how this process works in practice
• Discussing and sharing lessons learnt so far in regulating level 4 to 7 apprenticeships

• Sharing findings from the CBI’s report ‘Getting Apprenticeships Rights: Next Steps’ published in January 2019 and how the £5 million of funding for Apprenticeships should be used
• Exploring how to meet the needs of employers by delivering apprenticeships which support better quality technical qualifications to support new routes and progression in the workplace
• Outlining the need for a second phase of apprenticeship reform which should include a fundamental review of the apprenticeship levy
• Ensuring the delivery of 4 key priorities: improving quality provision, ensuring an efficient standards development process, ensuring transparency in funding decisions and assuming responsibility for T-Levels

• Sharing the findings of the Learning and Work Institutes recent report ‘Bridging the Gap: next steps for the apprenticeship levy’
• Assessing the underlying flaws of the apprenticeship levy and how to prevent the over-spend of the levy in the future
• Tackling the growing funding gap to ensure sufficient funding for employers and opportunities for young people
• Exploring what changes need to be implemented in order to meet the government’s target of 3 million apprenticeships by 2020

*programme subject to change