New national approach to boosting apprenticeship take-up

Salesforce is investing £1 million in The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to support a new national approach to identify and overcome barriers to apprenticeship take-up in England.

• 44 English regions are adopting a new approach to get more young people taking apprenticeships.
• Eight common factors affect apprenticeship take-up – with different factors having different weight in different regions.
• England’s 44 Careers Hubs to roll-out local action plans designed to overcome barriers and widen access to apprenticeships and technical education routes.

Partnering with England’s national body for careers education, CEC, Salesforce will invest in an ‘accelerator’ programme to boost access to digital apprenticeships in disadvantaged communities.

The Digital Futures Accelerator Fund (DFAF) will use the latest data and evidence from CEC’s new Apprenticeships and Technical Education (ATE) Framework which was published early September 2023. Conditions for Transition is a region-by-region analysis against the eight identified factors that affect transition onto ATE pathways for young people in England.

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