Report: Stability, transparency, flexibility and employer ownership
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