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Apprenticeships in Wales
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Tuesday, 4 April 2017 to Wednesday, 3 May 2017
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- 01 Welsh Language Commissioner
PDF 362 KB - 02 Coleg Sir Gâr PDF 145 KB View as HTML (2) 20 KB
- 03 CIPD Wales PDF 289 KB View as HTML (3) 55 KB
- 04 Centrica PDF 277 KB
- 05 Social Care Wales PDF 206 KB View as HTML (5) 54 KB
- 06 Older People’s Commissioner for Wales PDF 244 KB View as HTML (6) 55 KB
- 07 Urdd Gobaith Cymru (Welsh only) PDF 99 KB View as HTML (7) 26 KB
- 08 Federation of Small Businesses PDF 418 KB
- 09 Colleges Wales PDF 600 KB
- 10 Cardiff University PDF 299 KB
- 11 Open University PDF 114 KB View as HTML (11) 32 KB
- 12 Estyn PDF 188 KB View as HTML (12) 24 KB
- 13 Universities Wales PDF 325 KB
- 14 Cardiff and Vale College PDF 111 KB View as HTML (14) 35 KB
- 15 Regional Skills Partnership – North Wales – North Wales Economic Ambition Board PDF 656 KB
- 16 Association of Scholol and College Leaders (ASCL) Cymru PDF 80 KB View as HTML (16) 17 KB
- 17 Higher Education Funding council for Wales (HEFCW) PDF 161 KB
- 18 Chwarae Teg PDF 95 KB View as HTML (18) 18 KB
- 19 Grwp Llandrillo Menai PDF 188 KB View as HTML (19) 32 KB
- 20 Construction Industry Training Board PDF 348 KB View as HTML (20) 39 KB
- 21 National Training Federation for Wales PDF 277 KB View as HTML (21) 92 KB
- 22 Remploy Cymru PDF 234 KB View as HTML (22) 34 KB
- 23 Careers Wales PDF 430 KB View as HTML (23) 41 KB
- 24 Regional Learning and Skills Partnership - South West & Mid Wales PDF 178 KB View as HTML (24) 14 KB
- 25 National Deaf Children's Society PDF 234 KB View as HTML (25) 37 KB
- 26 Learning, Skills and Innovation Partnership (LSkIP) – South East Wales PDF 165 KB View as HTML (26) 38 KB
Purpose of the consultation
The
Economy, Infrastructure and Skills
Committee would welcome your views on the terms of reference for the
inquiry.
Terms of reference
To
review progress since the 2012 report of the Enterprise and Business
Committee: Apprenticeships
in Wales (PDF 403KB)
- Including looking at the role of key players: the Regional Skills Partnerships; the Wales Employment and Skills Board (WESB); and Sector Skills Councils
- To scrutinise the accessibility of independent careers advice on Apprenticeships and other vocational options?
- Particularly for young people, either in school, from Careers Wales, online or from other sources?
- Is the Careers Wales’ Apprenticeship Matching Service fit for purpose?
- How can better parity of esteem between vocational and academic routes be achieved?
- To investigate the main barriers to taking up Apprenticeships?
- How accessible are Apprenticeships for people with disabilities (all ages)?
- How can people from the lowest income families be supported to take-up Apprenticeships?
- What good practice exists and what more can be done to address gender stereotyping?
- To scrutinise the development of higher level Apprenticeships, with the support of further and higher education institutions?
- How effective is progression between other work-based learning and Apprenticeships and between Levels 2, 3, 4 and above Apprenticeships?
- How can employer engagement with Apprenticeships be improved?
Providing written evidence
The
Committee welcomes written contributions in English or Welsh, and asks
organisations with Welsh Language policies or schemes to provide bilingual
submissions, in line with their public information policies.
Submissions
should be no longer than five sides of A4, with numbered paragraphs, and should
focus on matters set out above. Please see guidance
for those providing evidence for committees.
Please
send your views to: SeneddEIS@assembly.wales
by 3 May 2017. It may not be possible to take into account responses received
after this date.
Disclosure of information
Please
ensure that you have considered the Assembly’s policy
on disclosure of information before submitting information to the Committee.