Apprentices: Care Leavers

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111900, on Apprentices, if he will collect information on apprentices who have been in care via the National Apprenticeship Service.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 31st January 2018

The Individualised Learner Record (ILR) contains data on apprenticeship learners but does not collect information to identify learners who are in care or have been in care. There are no formal requests or plans to record this information in the ILR in future. The next requirement gathering phase starts in June, where the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) can assess and accept requests for change for the 2019/20 ILR.

This does not affect apprentice eligibility for additional funding because they are a 19-24 year old care leaver. Their training provider gathers this information and makes a funding claim at the discretion of the apprentice.

Information on apprenticeship starts and achievements can be found in the further education and skills statistical first release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr.

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