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Small businesses can benefit from training which is completely or 95% funded by the government, as well as additional grants and incentives.

Small businesses can use the Apprenticeship Service (previously known as the Digital Apprenticeship Service) to reserve funding and apply for the employer incentives of up to £3,000 per apprentice. 

How to find a training provider, choose an apprenticeship and recruit a new apprentice, including some best practice tips and advice for small businesses.

Some of our employers are already starting to take advantage of the government’s latest incentives to recruit apprentices, but what are they and how can they be used?

Over the last few months, the team at Damar have been working hard to improve our apprenticeship delivery. These developments are based on feedback from our apprentices and employers, we all as learning and delivery data, and are designed to improve the quality and impact of what we do for our apprentices and partner-employers.

Peer to peer learning has long been used as an effective method for school, college and university students, but remains somewhat neglected in the world of apprenticeships. In a time when apprentices are even less likely to engage with each other on day-release programmes, it is useful to consider what the benefits are of peer to peer learning for apprentices and how this type of active learning can be practically utilised within such settings.

In this article, we are sharing some tips and advice on how to ensure that your apprenticeship recruitment complies with social distancing requirements. We are also sharing two case studies of how this has worked in practice: a law firm aiming to recruit six apprentices and a public sector levy payer recruiting 100 apprentices.