AGE 16 & 17 GRANT FOR EMPLOYERS TO TAKE ON APPRENTICES
Apprenticeship grants of £2,500, announced in the Employment White Paper Building Britain's Recovery, are now available to encourage employers to take on 16 and 17 year old apprentices.
The age 16 & 17 grant is in addition to the costs of training, which are met by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). Employers in England who are able to offer a job opportunity to an unemployed young person aged 16 or 17 are invited to apply for support. The NAS particularly wants to support small and medium-sized employers interested in employing an apprentice for the first time, or wishing to employ an additional apprentice over their traditional level of recruitment. It can support larger employers where they can demonstrate that they are over-training to support smaller employers in their supply chain/the wider sector or recruiting in excess of their traditional levels of apprentice recruitment.
The initiative is short-term and only available until the end of March 2010. For more information about this initiative, please visit here.