Employment & HR

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. ...