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Report: Stability, transparency, flexibility and employer ownership

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy scheme might well have been instrumental in ensuring half of employers revealing they recruited apprenticeships last year, but according to a new report by the Institute of Student Employers (ISE), government must now deliver on a number of recommendations it has if the scheme is to continue to work.

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It finds the levy still presents ISE members – some of the UK’s largest employers of apprentices – with major challenges.

The report highlights several key problems still need addressing in terms of apprentice funding, bureaucracy, implementation and perception.

 Amongst its ten recommendations are calls to:

  • Not make the levy a ‘payroll tax’: It wants greater transparency around how the apprentice levy pot is mangaged
  • Double the levy expiry date: To 48 months rather than the current 24
  • Increase levy flexibility: This includes looking at whether the range of costs that can be supported by the levy should with widened
  • Have government convene a working group: To look at how its 20% 'off-the-job training' requirement is managed

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