Guidance and regulation

The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 March 2024

How to apply to join the apprenticeship provider and assessment register (APAR) to receive government funding to train apprentices.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 2 January 2024

Information for large employers about transferring unused apprenticeship levy funds to another business to pay for their apprenticeship training and assessment.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2023

Sets out the learning aim class codes relevant to apprenticeship standards and funding bands that were applied to apprenticeship frameworks

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 5 March 2024

Information on how we allocate adult skills funding, facilities and bursaries, apprenticeships carry-in and non-levy extensions to providers.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 2 April 2024

Roles and responsibilities for apprenticeship gateway and resits for end-point assessment.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 26 January 2022

What is expected of a registered apprenticeship training provider.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 August 2023

Details of the funding system used for apprenticeship frameworks and standards from 1 May 2017.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 25 May 2021

Information for employers about getting a levy transfer to pay for apprenticeship training and assessment costs.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 27 September 2021

What training providers need to do to assess apprentices' prior learning and experience. Including how to record prior learning and calculate price reductions.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 November 2023

Training provider agreement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to pay training providers to carry out apprenticeship training.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 22 November 2023

Using subcontractors in the delivery of apprenticeships, with some illustrative examples.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2022

Details of the bursary payment some apprentices may be entitled to if they are under 25 when they start an apprenticeship and they are or have been in care.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 8 February 2023

Technical documents for the apprentice bulk upload facility for training providers to use in the apprenticeship service.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 3 October 2023

Details of the 2019 to 2020 funding system for the AEB and 16 to 18 traineeships

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 7 March 2019

Details of the 2020 to 2021 funding system for the AEB and 16 to 18 traineeships

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 28 January 2021

Data showing proportion of delivery within provider’s local authority and region.

• From: Closed organisation: Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 6 May 2016

Information for apprenticeship end-point assessment organisations, training providers and employers about policy changes for new standards being approved.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 28 June 2019

Sets out the funding bands that will apply for existing apprenticeship frameworks and apprenticeship standards.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 29 February 2024