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Apprenticeships • Tuesday 09/02/21 theguardian.com/apprenticeships Employers on Creative thinking How the Covid why hiring an around recruiting pandemic apprentice makes talent in media changed school- business sense and advertising leavers’ plans page 5 page 14-15 page 21 Apprenticeships ‘Everyone I spoke to said renewables are the future’ The boom in green jobs page 6-7 onohoe d ndy ndy a SUPPORTED BY photograph: The Guardian Tuesday 9 February 2021 Tuesday 9 February 2021 The Guardian 2 Apprenticeships Explained 3 Apprenticeships Inside Apprenticeships The Covid effect The number of people starting Page 10 Hairdressing How to reach the top in the profession apprenticeships has dropped due to the Apprenticeships pandemic, but many employers are keen Page 11 Degree apprenticeships to resume recruitment as soon as possible, Study to a higher-level with no debt and the theme for this year’s national Page 13 Disability; plus comment hit hard, but well apprenticeship week (8-14 February) is Employers need to make adjustments, “Build the Future”. Our cover story looks but the benefits run both ways at exciting career paths in renewable What are An apprenticeship is a chance Page 14-15 Diversity and inclusion placed to recover they? to earn and learn. Those aged energy and we hear from apprentices in How the media industry is benefitting a wide range of jobs, from hospitality and from wider-recruitment programmes 16 or over are trained for hairdressing to space engineering. You work, combining hands-on Page 16 Living at home Apprenticeships have been Barking, Essex, furloughed 26 of his experience while studying, can do an apprenticeship in almost any Tips for home-working and studying team, including two apprentices. profession – there are 150,000 employers cut back by the pandemic, “Business dropped considerably, gaining qualifications and, currently offering apprenticeships across Page 17 What I wished I’d known … but many are predicting they but we were fortunate not to importantly, getting paid. Former apprentices review their careers will play a key part in the close completely,” John says. “We There are apprenticeships for more than 170 industries, so why not have encouraged our apprentices to a look at what’s on offer? Page 19 Space industry post-Covid economic rebuild keep training online with Harlow more than 1,500 roles, from A look at a UK sector all set for takeoff College, and we extended their graphic design and floristry to apprenticeship period so they construction, accounting, and Page 4 Funding Page 21 How Covid changed plans Jenny Little can complete their studies. After How employers can cover training costs School-leavers on swapping uni for lockdown, we got everyone back to social care. There is no upper apprenticeships during the pandemic work who wanted to come back.” age limit for training. Page 5 View from employers hen the Collings’ business has always Why apprentices are good for business Page 22-23 Unusual apprenticeships This conTenT is coronavirus employed two apprentices at any supporTed by Who pays How businesses pay for Ten lesser-known careers and trades sent Britain into given time and he believes in youth barclays. To find for them? apprentices depends on their Page 6-7 Green jobs ouT more abouT lockdown last training. But, reluctantly, he could The renewable energy sector is booming Page 25 Law training supporTed by March, John not increase his headcount in 2020, size. Companies with payroll conTenT, visiT – making it a great place to start a career Making a legal career more accessible Theguardian.com/ Collings had to so held off hiring new apprentices of more than £3m a year pay supporTed-conTenT Wtell half of his staff to stay at home. last summer. He is not alone. Covid- the apprenticeship levy, a tax Page 9 Hospitality Page 27 Did you know …? The boss of Online Lubricants, a 19 has hit the jobs market hard and Jobs in the UK’s third-biggest sector Surprising facts about apprenticeships commercial oils supplier based in apprenticeships have suffered. of 0.5% of their pay bill. Firms below the levy threshold pay 5% of training costs directly to the training provider; the government covers the rest. Small employers with fewer than 50 members of staff have all costs paid if they hire 16 to 18-year-olds. There were almost 743,000 people Last summer, the government ▲ The Institute for Apprenticeships What • Level 2 6 & 7 (Higher) participating in apprenticeships announced incentive payments for and Technical Education has moved educational (Intermediate) – foundation in England in 2018/19, with almost employers hiring new apprentices some assessments online in response – GCSE degree and levels 394,000 new starts that year. But between August last year and to Covid photograph: getty above reaction to the pandemic crisis March 2021 – £2,000 for apprentices are they • Level 3 was swift. Six out of 10 employers between 16 and 24 and £1,500 for “However, many employers equivalent (Advanced) • Levels 6 & stopped all new apprenticeships those over the age of 25. But Lizzie plan to resume recruitment as to? – A-level 7 (Degree) – when the coronavirus took hold, Crowley, skills adviser for the soon as possible and want to use bachelor’s or research in May from the Association Chartered Institute of Personnel apprentices as a key part of their • Levels 4, 5, master’s degree of Employment and Learning and Development, warns this is Covid-19 recovery plans. The Providers found. Apprenticeship not enough. “Anecdotally, we hear institute has rolled out measures How long A full-time apprenticeship starts for 2019/20 were down 18% employers saying they need triple supporting more online learning and do they take? involves working 30 hours a on the year before, government data that amount,” she says. assessment, enabling apprentices in December showed. And between Jennifer Coupland, chief to continue training and complete week, plus one day of study – March and July 2020, 1,033 people executive of the Institute for their apprenticeships despite at university, college, or online. in England were withdrawn from Apprenticeships and Technical the pandemic.” Most apprenticeships will take apprenticeship programmes because Education (IFAteched), insists there Collings remains committed they had been made redundant, is reason for hope. “The number to investing in young talent, between one and four years to according to figures obtained from of people starting apprenticeships hiring 10 youngsters under the complete, depending on the the Education and Skills Funding halved over the first national government’s new Kickstart level of the apprenticeship, Agency. lockdown and we’re still waiting scheme, which offers six-month Small firms have found it to see the impact of the continuing paid work placements to out-of- the student’s abilities and particularly hard to retain apprentice restrictions,” she says. work people aged up to 24. He also the industry. numbers. Chinara Rustamova, the hopes to welcome new apprentices Federation of Small Businesses’ ‘The number of as soon as the circumstances around How much Apprentices are entitled to senior policy adviser, explains: “The Covid-19 improve. do they pay? the national minimum wage, coronavirus negatively affected apprenticeship “Since the pandemic, two of our apprenticeships in small businesses, existing employees have started which starts at £4.15 and rises with many putting off plans to starts halved over the higher level apprenticeships to to £8.72 an hour, depending hire new staff. The government’s first lockdown and improve their leadership skills,” he on your age and year of recent initiatives on apprenticeship says. “And we’re working with the incentives and measures to aid the we’re still waiting to Jo Richardson community school in apprenticeship. However, sharing of apprenticeship levy funds see the impact’ Dagenham to find our new Kickstart many employers offer more with small firms down supply chains recruits and hope to retain some than the minimum. mark an important step forward. of those trainees. It’s good for the That said, the incentives won’t help business and society. A belief in SMEs struggling with cashflow here Jennifer Coupland workplace training is hard-wired By Jenny Little and now.” CEO, IFAteched into me.” The Guardian Tuesday 9 February 2021 Tuesday 9 February 2021 The Guardian 4 Apprenticeships 5 ▼ Employers who hire an apprentice aged 16-24 between 1 August 2020 and 31 March 2021 can claim £2,000 photograph: getty September, during a speech during his visit to further education college Funding Exeter College in Devon, Boris Johnson announced that changes Employers were coming. Investing in training is “We will be expanding apprenticeships, reforming the system so that unspent funds can about to become easier be used more easily to support ‘It’s proved to be apprenticeships – not just in big companies, but in the SMEs where there is so much potential for job Employers can claim Plan for Jobs, employers who hire creation,” he said. an apprentice between 1 August These reforms will include an a brilliant way up to £2,000 for every 2020 and 31 March 2021 can claim a online matching service, which will £2,000 incentive payment for any enable large businesses to identify apprentice – and reforms apprentices aged 16 to 24, and £1,500 small businesses to work with mean it will soon be for those aged 25 and over. and support. The West Midlands The employer can decide how Combined Authority, for example, of recruiting’ simpler to get funding best to spend the money, and it’s in has helped 1,300 apprentices to be addition to any payments already supported by helping big players made to support specific groups to transfer levy funds to small 2020.
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