The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act today received Royal Assent, bringing in a host of new measures to prepare for the country’s long-term economic and social needs and build on the huge rise in school standards over the last decade.
The Act provides the first complete legislative overhaul of Apprenticeships legislation for nearly 200 years – putting the new Apprenticeship Offer for suitably qualified young people on a statutory basis from 2013 and ensures a good quality apprenticeship for apprentices and employers alike.
It is a key step towards meeting Ministers’ ambitions that one in five young people will undertake an apprenticeship by 2020, building on the huge increase in numbers starting an apprenticeship in the last 10 years, rising from just 65,000 in 1997 to a quarter of a million this year, with overall government investment topping £1bn annually. Follow this
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