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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009
What Allfie has achieved
Current campaign work
What you can do
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act created a national apprenticeship framework to accredit apprenticeship opportunities for young people. To achieve this, the previous Government created a National Apprenticeship Scheme which would set out the standards for accredited and recognised apprenticeships opportunities. The Act states that:
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Skills Funding Agency Chief Executive has a duty to secure appropriate range of apprenticeship placement offers for suitably qualified young people.
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Young people (aged 16-18) are required to achieve 5 GCSEs including Maths and English in order to undertake an ‘accredited’ apprenticeship. However, young people defined as being disabled (16-24) will have an opportunity to submit a portfolio of work as an alternative to achieving 5 GCSEs in order to undertake an accredited apprenticeship placement offer.
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All young people would be required to gain appropriate industry based, numeracy, literacy and ICT certificates amongst other requirements whilst undertaking a paid intermediate or advanced accredited apprenticeship as set out in the Specification for Apprenticeships Standards for England guidance.
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Priority for funding disabled apprentices training will be given to employers.
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Young disabled people’s support would be funded by the college and Access To Work.
What Allfie has achieved
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The upper age was raised up to 24 years of age for disabled young people’s seeking an apprenticeship.
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Disabled young people can submit a portfolio of work as an alternative to GCSEs
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ALLFIE has a place on the Joint Apprenticeships Unit regulations and reference advisory group.
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See a film here about the work Allfie and Hertfordshire PASS did together.
Current campaign work
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ALLFIE will continue to be on the Joint Apprenticeship’s Unit’s reference group
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Continue putting pressure on Government to drop its requirement for young people to pass separate numeracy, literacy and Information Technology certificates in order to gain their apprenticeship certificate.
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Where necessary the course curriculum should adapted so that disabled and non disabled young people can still learn together whilst undertaking their apprenticeships / further education courses.
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Put pressure on the Government to issue regulations allowing disabled students / apprentices to receive money for their personal budget to cover their further education support and equipment.
What you can do
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Tell us about your experiences of accessing and participating in mainstream further education or undertaking an accredited apprenticeship. We are interested in both positive and negative experiences of enrolment, support, curriculum differentiation and financial support.
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Lord Young visits Apprentices at Hertfordshire PASS Photos with permission of Hertfordshire PASS |
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Further information can be found in the following Allfie Briefings:
Allfie Briefing No. 2 January 2009
Allfie Briefing No. 3 February 2009
Allfie Briefing No. 5 April 2009
ALLFIE Briefing No.7 June 2009
ALLFIE Briefing No.11 November 2009
ALLFIE Briefing No. 12 December 2009
ALLFIE
Briefing No.13 January 2010
ALLFIE
Briefing No.14 February/March 2010