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The Apprenticeship Levy should be paused throughout the COVID-19 outbreak to prevent businesses paying tax towards a funding programme they are unable to draw down from, according to FTA. With logistics businesses unable to recruit new apprentices due to social distancing rules, and with no new training programmes getting under …

A national logistics training company is reminding larger UK businesses with a road transport fleet to ‘use it or lose it’ when it comes to accessing the funds they’ve paid into the government’s levy scheme. After running for 24 months, money paid into the levy by individual businesses will start …

Without suitable apprenticeships standards against which to train recruits, the apprenticeship levy is nothing more than a secondary tax on the logistics industry, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA), the business organisation representing the logistics industry. On the second anniversary of the Apprenticeship Levy (6 April), FTA’s Head of …

· The energy and utility sector has delivered significant progress in the first year of adapting to the apprenticeship levy · Apprenticeships are vital but form just one important part of the sector’s multi-faceted approach to meeting its skills needs and workforce resilience challenge · Labour market challenges are UK-wide …

Bis Henderson Academy has completed the first phase of a major initiative to help leading chilled foods logistics services provider, NFT, take early advantage of the government’s Apprenticeship Levy. After conducting an in-depth analysis of NFT’s skills needs, Bis Henderson Academy has engaged in a learning and development programme for …

The UK’s leading industry specialist awarding organisation, EAL, is to call upon the government not to scrap vital qualifications in new trailblazer apprenticeships – or risk industrial chaos. Chairman John Hillier, will tell MPs Today (Monday February 6th), that vocational industry backed and developed qualifications are absolutely essential to prove …

The Freight Transport Association FTA has called for assurance from the UK’s devolved governments that Apprenticeship Levy funds will be made available for apprenticeships or other vocational training in the freight sector. FTA has this week written to the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish administrations to ask that clear plans …