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: 15 May 2024

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

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 21 May 2024

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

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 May 2024

Information about employing an apprentice and how apprenticeship funding works.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guidance for public sector bodies on collecting and reporting data on their apprenticeships.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 2 May 2023

Sets out the minimum requirements for the inclusion of an apprenticeship programme in a recognised English apprenticeship framework.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 17 August 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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