Apprenticeships
The Children’s Workforce Network is developing a project designed to ensure that appropriate apprenticeships are available for the children and young people’s sector. Information on the project will be available on the web site shortly.
Information on Apprenticeships in England
National Apprenticeship Service (NAS)
The NAS was announced in January 2008 and officially launched in April 2009. Reporting to the Departments for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the service will drive forward the Government’s ambition for Apprenticeships. The service aims to bring about a significant growth in the number of employers offering Apprenticeships.
The NAS will assume total responsibility for the delivery of Apprenticeships that includes: Employer Services; Learner Services; and a web-based vacancy matching system. This online system enables individuals to search and apply for live vacancies and allows employers, and their training providers to advertise their vacancies to a wide range of interested applicants.
The service has ultimate accountability for the national delivery of targets and co-ordination of the funding for Apprenticeship places. It will act to overcome barriers to the growth of the programme and assume responsibility for promoting Apprenticeships and their value to employers, learners and the country as a whole.
http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Partners/Partners-FAQs/FAQDetails1.aspx
Current Apprenticeship activity
There is currently a variety of apprenticeship frameworks that have been or are being developed by CWN partners and are of particular interest to the children and young people’s workforce. These include:
- Health and Social care
- Youth Work
- Youth Justice
- Creative Apprenticeships
- Active Learning and Leisure
- Children’s Care Learning and Development
Sector Skills Councils, who are CWN partners, have also developed, or are developing, a wide range of apprenticeship frameworks for their sectors. These are not specifically for the children and young people’s workforce but may be of interest to the wider children’s workforce. For example, these include among very many others:
- Police community support officers
- Pharmacy
- Courts and tribunals
- Learning disability