Employment & HR

The government is proposing to require dental graduates to work in the NHS for several years after graduating or otherwise repay their training fees. If you’re intending to pay an employee’s training fees, could you have a similar provision?

Training and assessment costs. If you don’t pay the apprenticeship levy, you must normally make a 5% contribution to an apprentice’s training and assessment costs; the government pays the other 95%, up to the funding band maximum (every apprenticeship standard is allocated to a funding band which caps the maximum the government will pay). However, for new apprentice starts from 1 April 2024, the government will fund 100% of the training costs, up to the funding band maximum, for apprentices up to the age of 21. ...