Published on: 13 May 2021
The Spring Budget in March saw the Chancellor announce a new £7m fund to support the greater use of apprenticeships in sectors with more flexible employment models.
The Government has recently launched the Flexi-Job Apprenticeships Consultation to seek views on their vision and proposals for flexi-job apprenticeships schemes. This consultation will inform the launch of the £7m funds in July.
Blue Davies, Head of Training at British Marine, comments: “This is an opportunity for the industry to have a say on how to increase the use of apprenticeships. The Consultation is requesting your feedback on plans to use the new fund to develop portable apprenticeships and to consider how flexi-job apprenticeship schemes can support the growth of apprenticeships in our sector where often short-term and project-based contracts take place. This could be an opportunity for British Marine members to take on an apprentice, when they haven’t been able to before.”
Have your say & how to get involved
To access the Consultation on the Department for Education (DFE) platform (Citizen Space), head to Reshaping the role of Apprenticeship Training Agencies.
You can navigate through each page, or you can view the full review document here.
You should use the online system to provide your feedback unless for accessibility reasons you are unable to do so.
The ‘Save and return later’ feature will allow you to return to the online consultation at any point without losing any information you have already entered. Click on the ‘save and come back later’ button (at the bottom of a page) and enter an email address (this may be pre-populated if you have already provided your email). You will be sent an email entitled: ‘Your consultation return code’ – this contains a unique link that will allow you to return to a part-completed response. This link will expire when the consultation closes.
If you are unable to use the online system, for example, because you use specialist accessibility software that is not compatible with the system, please email fundingrules.comments@education.gov.uk and you will be provided with a word document and details of how to return your response.
If you have any questions about this consultation, please email fundingrules.comments@education.gov.uk
Deadline
The consultation closes at 23:59 on Tuesday 1 June 2021.