What’s more, they impact on every member of staff involved in apprenticeships – from curriculum and delivery teams to operational and employer engagement teams.
So, what does this mean for you as an apprenticeship provider? Where should you start when thinking about compliance across your organisation?
Back to basics
It might seem obvious, but to understand the fundamental rules of compliant apprenticeships requires a basic appreciation of what an apprenticeship is.
Essentially, the apprenticeship is a substantial learning journey of at least 278 hours of off-the-job training (OTJT) across a one-year duration followed by end point assessment activities. An apprenticeship is not simply a training or a skills programme, it is something that works with a job role and delivers competence against the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (KSBs) of that job role designed as an apprenticeship ‘standard’.
Why is compliance important?
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) have thousands of providers operating and they carry out an oversight programme designed to touch on that delivery and ensure the rules are being followed. It’s also important to keep working to the terms of the agreements you’ve made with your employers, apprentices, and your colleagues so compliance is more than simply ‘funding’ compliance but let’s look at the fundamentals in this blog.
Finding a compliant apprentice
It’s important to find the right students for your apprenticeships and this is perhaps the initial hurdle you must overcome. With that in mind, I’ve devised a simple “Ten Start” fundamentals to be an apprentice which lists the basic required criteria:
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