APPENDIX 31
Memorandum submitted by the Learning and
Skills Council
The Apprenticeship for Adults programme will
be delivered from August 2007 onwards.
We are extending funding to include adults over
the age of 25 who wish to follow a full apprenticeship programme
and will prioritise the following groups of learners:
(i) Those without employment; including those
on incapacity benefit, who are seeking to train or retrain in
order to enter long term employment.
(ii) Individuals who are seeking to enter
an atypical career, ie women and/or ethnic minorities.
(iii) Adults working within sectors that
have been identified as local, regional or national priorities,
who have existing skills but have skills or knowledge gaps and
who lack formal qualifications for these skills, including those
who wish to complete an Apprenticeship having achieved their NVQ
2 or 3 through Train to Gain.
It will be for each regional LSC to determine
volumes of learners against the above criteria and against their
funding priorities based upon the needs within their region and
their individual allocations. We will monitor the data throughout
the year and will be able to review the number of women who are
registered against the manufacturing based apprenticeship frameworks.
25 January 2007
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