The government has set a target that public sector bodies with 250 or more staff in England have a target to employ an average of at least 2.3% of their staff as new apprentice starts over the period 1st April 2017 – 31st March 2021. As a trust we committed to promoting the apprenticeship opportunities for our staff both for recruitment and training, but we do want to ensure quality of provision for all our staff. We also recognise the actual barriers to enabling apprenticeships and are working with our academies and providers to overcome these and achieve the target set.
The tables below set out our achievement to date:
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Number of employees who were working in England on 31st March 2018 |
480 |
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Number of employees who were working in England on 31st March 2019 |
572 |
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Number of new employees who started working for the trust in England between 1st April 2018 – 31st March 2019 |
92 |
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Number of apprentices who were working in England 31st March 2018 |
6 |
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Number of apprentices who were working in England 31st March 2019 |
8 |
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Number of new apprentices in England 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019 (includes both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) |
4 |
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Full Time Equivalents |
337 |
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Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) as a proportion of employment starts between 1st April 2018 – 31st March 2019 |
4.44% |
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Percentage of total headcount that were apprentices on 31st March 2019 |
1.4% |
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Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) between 1st April 2018 and 31st March 2019 as a proportion of total headcount on 31st March 2018 |
0.83% |