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

Guidance on how to use the apprenticeship service to access funds to pay for apprenticeship training.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 13 July 2023

How employers and training providers should meet the off-the-job training requirements for an apprenticeship

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 October 2023

Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 30 March 2023

New apprenticeship standards are developed by employer groups known as ‘trailblazers’.

• From: Closed organisation: Institute for Apprenticeships
• Updated: 29 June 2021

Employers and training providers could be eligible for £1,000 each if they hire an eligible apprentice.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 21 May 2022

How employers and training providers can find an end-point assessment organisation (EPAO) for their apprentice.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 April 2024

How employers can create apprenticeship adverts using their apprenticeship service account.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 21 December 2021

How providers and lead schools can provide training for this ITT route, including who's eligible, funding rules, apprenticeship levy and advertising courses.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 22 February 2022

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 about flexi-job apprenticeships using approved agencies, in occupations that often use short-term contracts or other non-standard employment models.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 April 2024

Information for apprenticeship providers about reasonable adjustments for apprentices with learning difficulties and disabilities.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 October 2022

Information for employers about how apprentices in England are assessed using end-point assessment.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 5 August 2021

Statutory guidance for local authorities on their duties relating to the participation of young people in education, employment or training.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 4 April 2024

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

How training providers can create apprenticeship vacancies using their apprenticeship service account.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 21 December 2021

How schools and local authorities can employ a postgraduate teacher apprentice, including using their apprenticeship levy.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 March 2020

A guide for schools about the benefits of apprenticeships for their workforce, and how the apprenticeship levy and public sector target apply to schools.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 13 July 2021