SDN has provided consultancy support to over 1,000 apprenticeship providers in the last 5 years – through both government-funded programmes, like the Future Apprenticeship Programme, and through paid-for webinars, events and in-depth ...
Booking is now open for live-online, face-to-face and in-house Apprenticeship Workforce Development (AWD) courses, complementing the existing on-demand course offer from phase one of the programme. These nine fully-funded courses ...
David Lockhart-Hawkins is SDN’s Strategic Associate for funding and compliance, and lead consultant at Lockhart Hawkins. Here, David tackles an important change in the apprenticeship funding rules that every provider needs to consider ...
In this blog we provide a glimpse into integrated end-point assessment. We ask some challenging questions and provide useful tips to help you improve your quality assurance. Timing is of the essence… You’ll know that integrated ...
End-point assessors are in demand. More will be needed as end-point assessments keep ramping up. End-Point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs) continue to be on the look-out for the right people, with the right industry knowledge and the ...
SDN supports hundreds of apprenticeship providers each year to launch, develop and improve their apprenticeship training. We work directly with employers too, to help them support apprentices in the workplace. But did you know we also ...
During National Apprenticeship Week, the country, quite rightly, focuses on apprentices and employers, that have benefitted from apprenticeship training. However, at SDN, we’re working day-in, and day-out supporting apprenticeship ...
Off the job training (OTJT) is a fundamental pillar of quality and compliance for apprenticeships. It’s also commonly misunderstood, which can undermine the design of learning plans and the evidence needed to support funding claims. ...
Gateway is a critical milestone in all apprenticeships where trainers and employers assess the competence of their apprentices and prepare them for end-point assessment (EPA). It usually involves an intense period of activity which can ...
There are a lot of rules in apprenticeships. What’s more, they impact on every member of staff involved in apprenticeships – from business development, administration, operational delivery to quality and governance. So, what does this ...
