Pre-apprenticeship issues need to be resolved if Wolf’s vision is to be realised, say vocational learning providers

3 March 2011

The body representing the independent providers who deliver the majority of apprenticeships has today responded to the Wolf review by welcoming the professor’s focus on the importance of 16 to 18 apprenticeships.

However, the Association of Learning Providers warned that the issue of good pre-apprenticeship provision needed urgently addressing if the shared goal of more apprenticeships for young people is to be realised.

Graham Hoyle, the association's chief executive, pointed out that many young people were leaving school at 16 not ready to start a full apprenticeship and there was a requirement for a suite of flexible provision which enabled to get young people on to the ladder to an apprenticeship.

One of the envisaged routes was through the government’s Foundation Learning programme for 16 to 18 year olds, but Mr Hoyle said: "Many providers are concerned that they are unable to design the most appropriate support for many of their clients under the current funding regime. Reports are now coming in of young people walking out of exams unprepared to cope any longer with what they considered to be a continuation of a school classroom experience similar to that which had failed to see them progress during statutory education. There are undoubtedly serious issues regarding the delivery of foundation learning to many of our most vulnerable young people which need to be addressed if Professor Wolf’s vision for apprenticeships is to become a reality."

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