Children & Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee

4th April 2011

Phil Warner

Subsidised Salary Apprenticeship Scheme

Background

• Funding from EPP• Applied for 85 placements (£243,100)• 50% Salary (£2,860/learner)• Originally ‘Public Sector’

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• Broadened to include local small businesses• Southend residents• 82 placements• 60 employers

Employability Skills

• Appropriate work ethic, • Time keeping, • Attitude to employers, • Poor communication, and • Low level functional skills

Willingness of employers to invest in apprenticeship

• Economic climate, • Two year commitment • Support for mentoring• Range of qualifications and frameworks, and • Quality of applicants

Pre-Apprenticeship programme

• £9,000 to support a pre-apprenticeship programme for vulnerable young people

• 21 learners• Manual Handling, First Aid, Food Hygiene,

Construction Skills Card, Literacy, Numeracy and personal learning and thinking skills

• Vocational qualification at level 1.

Questions

Further details:

David Coleman01702 534387

davidcoleman@southend.gov.uk