Employer brochure

What it is

Twelve pages you can forward to whoever signs it off

Most employer conversations stall in the same place: somebody has to explain apprenticeship funding to a finance director, from memory, on a Thursday. This brochure exists so that you can forward it instead.

It sets out the four ways we work with employers, and gives the 2026/27 funding rules in full — including the costs no funding covers, which is the part people find out about later.

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Send it to your finance team

Free, no email address required. The funding pages are sourced and dated so nobody has to take our word for the numbers.

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PDF · 280 KB · August 2026

What is inside

Six sections, and where each one lives on this site

01

Hire an apprentice

What you are actually taking on, what we handle and what you handle, and how long it takes to get somebody started.

Hire an apprentice

02

How apprenticeships work

The mechanics in the order they happen, plus the two things that derail an apprenticeship and how to avoid both.

The mechanics

03

Funding, in full

The 2026/27 rules: levy and non-levy, the age bands, transfers, additional payments, and the costs no funding ever covers.

Funding & the levy

04

Certifying a team

Whole cohorts trained together on your schedule, with the vendor’s own courseware and an honest account of what can and cannot be tailored.

Team & corporate training

05

Exam seats and consultancy

Booking exams without training with us, sitting as a group, and the cases where the honest answer is consultancy rather than a course.

Examination centre

06

Who assesses, who inspects

Why the teaching and the judgement are deliberately in different hands, and which organisations hold each of them.

Partners & accreditations

Tell us the gap

Twenty minutes, free, and a straight answer — including when the answer is that you should not spend money with us at all.

Start a conversation

Ready when you are

Twenty minutes, free, no pressure. You will leave knowing exactly what your next step is.