Jobs Growth Wales Become an Apprentice in Wales

APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNTITES - Jobs Growth Wales is a programme designed to get unemployed 16-24 year olds living in Wales into employment for six months in a job paying at least the National Minimum Wage. The first Jobs Growth Wales scheme started in April 2012 and ended in April 2015. The second scheme started in September 2015.

There are some really useful pages here for young people interested in an apprenticeship.

• Become an apprentice
• If you are over 16, living in Wales and not in full-time education you can apply for an apprenticeship.
• Recruit an apprentice
• Help for businesses to recruit apprentices.
• Apprentices: guidance for schools
• Explains how schools can recruit apprentices or train existing staff using apprenticeships.
• Apprentices: guidance for local authorities
• Explains how local authorities can recruit apprentices or train existing staff using apprenticeships.
• Specification of apprenticeship standards
• Guidance on the requirements that should be met by apprenticeship frameworks.
• Apprenticeship Awards Cymru 2019
• Information on the Apprenticeship Awards Cymru and how to apply.
• Jobs Growth Wales: leaflet for young people
• Guidance for people aged 16 to 24 who are looking for work.
• Jobs Growth Wales: leaflet for employers
• Guidance on how you can take on an unemployed young person and the funding you will receive towards it.
• ReAct for individuals
• Guidance to help people affected by redundancy gain new skills and find employment.
• ReAct for employers
• Guidance for employers looking to recruit someone who has been made redundant.
• Traineeships
• Brochure for 16 and 17 year olds about gaining skills and experience to get a job or go on to further learning.
• Skills performance measures
• Ways to evaluate skills policies and programmes to improve our skills base.
• Wales Union Learning Fund: application form
• Application form for trade unions to apply for funds to encourage and support workplace learning.
• Wales Union Learning Fund: working with unions
• Guidance on funds available to trade unions to encourage and support workplace learning.
• Working Wales
• A new advice service that will create a more efficient system of employability support.
• Parents Childcare and Employment (PaCE) project
• Childcare support for parents whilst training or looking for work.
• Apply for funding to train staff in early years, childcare and play
• Apply for funding for staff in early years, childcare and play sectors to gain recognised qualifications.

Policy and backgroundIncludes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Employability planThe plan aims to tackle unemployment and economic inactivity.
• Policy and strategy
• Progress report on the employability plan: March to September 2018Progress on delivery and what we will do next to meet the commitments of the employability plan.
• Report
• Apprenticeships skills policy planHow we will improve the delivery of apprenticeships to match the needs of the economy.
• Policy and strategy
• Traineeships policy review: final reportA review by York Consulting of how traineeships work in practice.
• Report
• Traineeships: impact assessmentAn assessment of how traineeships affect equality of opportunity.
• Impact assessment
• Policy statement on skillsDefines a set of principles for the skills system that will allow employers to grow.
• Policy and strategy
• Wales Employment and Skills BoardProvides the Welsh Government with independent advice on employment and skills.
• Policy and strategy
• Disability action plan for apprenticeshipsA plan to help more disabled people to enter apprenticeships.
• Policy and strategy
• Youth entrepreneurship aspiration research: final reportThis report identifies the drivers and barriers that influence young entrepreneurs.
• Report

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