{"id":15702,"date":"2017-05-24T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15702"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:01:58","slug":"changes-to-the-apprenticeship-funding-system-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15702","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the apprenticeship funding system in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>England is making changes to the way apprenticeship funding works, including introducing an apprenticeship levy, an apprenticeship service and a new \u2018co-investment rate\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Government writes:<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re making changes to the way apprenticeship funding works, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>introducing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work#pay-apprenticeship-levy\">apprenticeship levy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>introducing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work#apprenticeship-service\">apprenticeship service<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; this is an online service that allows employers to choose and pay for apprenticeship training more easily<\/li>\n<li>introducing a new \u2018co-investment\u2019 rate to support\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work#non-levy-paying-employers\">employers who don\u2019t pay the levy<\/a>\u00a0(\u2018co-investment\u2019 is when employers and government share the cost of training and assessing apprentices)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apprenticeships are a devolved policy. This means that authorities in each of the UK nations manage their own apprenticeship programmes, including how funding is spent on apprenticeship training.<\/p>\n<p>For more background see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work\/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England is making changes to the way apprenticeship funding works, including introducing an apprenticeship levy, an apprenticeship service and a new \u2018co-investment rate\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}