Guidance on traineeships: information for employers and education providers updated
01 September 2020
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, alongside the Department for Education has published guidance on the framework for the delivery of traineeships from 1 September 2020 to 31 July 2021. A further version (version two) will be updated later in September 2020.
At the Summer Economic Statement, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the fact that employers who make new work placement opportunities available may receive an incentive payment, equating to £1,000 per learner, for a maximum of ten learners. Further details will be published within version two of the guidance. We will publish any additional information in News Online as soon as it becomes available.
The employer incentive payments will be available for traineeships that start from 1 September 2020 only, and will be available to employers providing traineeship work placements for the first time, and also to those expanding an existing offer to make new opportunities available. The figure will be for £1,000 irrespective of the duration of the work placement, with payment being made upon completion of that placement. Each employer can claim for up to a maximum of ten incentive payments, but further detail around this will be provided in due course.
The incentive funding will initially be available from 1 September 2020 to 31 July 2021, and forms part of the Government’s response to coronavirus. This will be until all the funding made available for payments is used. If a decision is made to continue with employer incentive payments outside of these dates then it will be made with HM Treasury as part of the Spending Review process.
The rationale behind providing the employer incentive payments is to encourage employers to provide work placements, by assisting them to meet the costs of doing so.
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