Apprentices: Travellers
(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 5 February (HL 4901), how many Gypsies and Travellers completed apprenticeships in each academic year since 2014; and at what level.
The table below provides the number of learners that declared themselves as Gypsy or Irish Traveller for the 2013/14 to 2016/17 academic years, who completed apprenticeships broken down by level. Figures are also provided for the first two quarters of the 2017/18 academic year reported to date.
Apprenticeship level | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Intermediate (level 2) | 40 | 50 | 70 | 70 | 10 |
Advanced (level 3) | 30 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 |
Higher (level 4+) | - | - | - | - | - |
All levels | 70 | 80 | 90 | 90 | 30 |
Notes:
1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest ten.
2) Data obtained from the Individualised Learner Record.
3) '-' Indicates a base value of fewer than five or zero take-up for the cohort combination.
4) Ethnicity is self-declared by the learner.
Demographic information about apprenticeship starts and achievements is available in the demography section of the ‘FE data library’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships#demographics.