Apprenticeships
Mark Bennington
Operations Director
Employer Based Training
Rathbone Training
• National Youth Organisation and Third Sector
Provider
• Part of the Newcastle College Group of
Companies
• 700 staff working throughout the UK
• 70+ Centres
• Service streams:
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Youth Engagement
Pre 16
Foundation Learning
Work Based Learning (Apprenticeships)
Rathbone – Work Based Learning
• Apprenticeships, England, Scotland and
Wales
Employer Training Division
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£6 million national delivery contract (England)
425 apprenticeships 16-18
1200 apprenticeships 19+
95 FTE Staff
• Management Team
• Employer Engagement Officers
• Field based delivery Staff; Tutor/Assessor/Verifiers
• Pastoral Support
Apprenticeships
• The government’s main skills
funding offer to employers,
young people and adults
• Deliver work skills and
transferable skills
• Apprentices:
– Earn more over their lifetime
– Are less likely to be out of
work
– Are more likely to find
another job following
unemployment
Rathbone – Work Based Learning
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9 Strategic partners; extending geographical boundaries and
providing specialist and niche frameworks
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Strong presence in the North West
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Business Administration
Customer Service
Team Leading
Childcare
Health and Social Care
Motor Vehicle
Hospitality and catering
Youth Work
Managing Volunteers
Fundraising
Founding Member of the Fair Train Group Training Association
Fair Train
The Group Training Association of
Third Sector Employers and
Providers
What is Fair Train?
• A Members’ Association for the Third Sector
– Employer Forum,
– Training Providers Forum
• Working to help its members get the benefits
from the apprenticeship programme and other
government funding opportunities.
What Does Fair Train do?
• Promote the interests of Third Sector
Employers in apprenticeships
• Contract with funding agencies on behalf of
TS employers
• Select and oversee Fair Train Providers
• Work with employers to recruit, train and
receive funding for apprentices – and later
other funding streams
Practical Help
• Help employers access and benefit from
apprenticeship programmes
• Support in the recruitment of an apprentice
• Provide access to a ‘preferred provider’
• Manage the administration, quality assurance
and audit requirements of government funding
In an open, fair and transparent relationship
The Fair Train Principles
• To:
– Place employers’ long term training needs first
– Be open and transparent about government funding
we draw down
– Devote as much of the funding as possible to training,
minimising administration costs as far as possible
– Act and report upon any complaint received by Fair
Train from an employer.
Employers’ Forum – Why Join
• To benefit directly from:
– Apprenticeship Funding
– Advice and guidance on Apprenticeships
– Regular ebulletin
• To Steer Fair Train
• To influence policy on Apprenticeships
– e.g. volunteers and apprenticeships; programme led
apprenticeships; pre-apprenticeships; new
frameworks
www.fairtrain.org
Progress To Date
• 320+ apprentices in 100+ Third Sector
organisations
• 240 Fair Train Employer members
• Developed (in conjunction with Skills
Third Sector) of 3 new Sector Specific
Advanced level Frameworks Fundraising/Managing
Volunteers/Campaigning
Provider Development
• One of the targets was the development
of an additional 5 Third Sector providers
to become preferred providers – ‘For the
Sector by the Sector’
• All have been subject to due diligence
checks and rigorous vetting
• Existing providers are:
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Rathbone
London Learning Consortium
Enable
The Via Partnership (June 2012)
Contact Details:
Mark Bennington – Operations Director
mark.bennington@rathboneuk.org
07793 837536
Candice Langley – Regional Operations Manager
candice.langley@rathboneuk.org
07824 692564
Tom Watson – Fair Train Membership Secretary
tom.watson@rathboneuk.org
www.rathboneuk.org
www.fairtrain.org