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The levy is part of the government’s initiative to encourage employers to invest in apprenticeships through funds they have more control over.
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The Apprenticeship Levy is a government initiative changing the way apprenticeships are funded in the UK. There are three things employers need to know:
Investing in apprenticeships is easy, and how you do so depends on whether you're a Levy-paying employer or not.
Where you have an annual paybill over £3million, you’ll pay 0.5% of that total paybill into the Apprenticeship Levy. Your payments are monthly, and they’ll show in your Apprenticeship Service account as soon as they’re made.
If your business is committed to investing in IT apprenticeships, you’ll be able to get more out than you pay into the Levy through co-investment from the government. For every Levy payment, you’ll receive an extra 10% top-up in your Apprenticeship Service account, so every £1,000 will be increased to £1,100 in value.
If your annual paybill is under £3million, the government pays for 90% of the total training costs, meaning you can access award-winning accelerated IT training at a fraction of the cost when you invest in apprenticeships.
Yes. Our current IT apprentice employers range from international swimwear brands and law firms to secondary schools and charities.
If you’re not sure whether your company is suitable to be an IT apprentice employer, call us on 0800 081 6022 and we’ll let you know.
You’ll pay your levy to HMRC through PAYE (together with tax and National Insurance). The payments will then appear in your digital account, where you can select and pay for an apprenticeship with an approved training provider like Firebrand.
Funds that have been in your account for longer than 24 months will expire, so it’s important you invest them into apprenticeships or the levy will simply act as a tax.
The government contributes in two ways:
The levy puts employers in control of their apprenticeship funding, letting you decide where and how you spend the funding available. It’s not a tax, so you’ll receive levy payments back by reinvesting them into apprenticeship training.
The levy benefits employers that are committed to training and developing their workforce more than those who don’t, as they’ll be able to claim back more from the government than they contribute.
Yes. All non-levied employers will receive government funding for Digital Apprenticeship Standard programmes (developed by employer Trailblazer groups) by co-investment from the government.
You’ll only pay 10% of the cost of training and the government pays the rest (90%).