Agenda item

Ian Pearson informed Forum Members about the Apprenticeship Levy. It was intended that guidance on this would be provided informing schools on how money could be accessed. There was also more information on the DfE website. The Levy was set at 0.5% of each individual school’s  pay bill subject to National Insurance contributions. Most of the levy would initially go towards accredited training for non teaching staff however, it was likely that this list would expand.

Schools would be able to bid for the money and a mechanism for allocating the funding was required. This could possibly involve a sub group of the Heads’ Funding Group.

Peter Hudson requested that a summary regarding how the funding was used be published. Ian Pearson confirmed that this would be done once the funding had been distributed.

RESOLVED that the Schools Forum noted the information given on the Apprenticeship Levy and requested that the Heads’ Funding Group oversee assessing bids to access this pot.