Policy News Journal - 2017-18

As a non-levy paying employer, guidance is available on the steps you need to take to recruit an apprentice.

Help and support

National Contact Centre helpline - 08000 150 600 Email - Helpdesk@manageapprenticeships.service.gov.uk for help with:

 Technical queries about the Apprenticeship Service  General levy information and queries  Accessing the service (accessing your Apprenticeship Levy funds and advice about the provider payment process).

Log onto GOV.UK and search for Apprenticeship Levy for help with the following queries:

 General levy collection  Calculating the levy  Connected company questions  Calculating the English percentage.

Further guidance about the Apprenticeship Levy is available on GOV.UK

Business Tax Account (BTA)

At present, the Apprenticeship Levy charge will be shown within an employer’s HMRC BTA on the summary page where the Levy charge will be included in the amount that employers owe. Under this figure it will show ‘includes Apprenticeship Levy bill of £…’

An employer’s levy charge is not currently available to view within the existing Liabilities and Payments viewer.

Read more from the August edition (67) of HMRC’s Employer Bulletin

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Apprenticeship Levy payers in Scotland 12 October 2017

Employers in Scotland who are subject to the Apprenticeship Levy can access the Flexible Workforce Development Fund (FWDF) to up-skill and re-skill their existing workforce.

The FWDF was developed in line with the Scottish Government’s 2016 consultation on the UK Government’s Apprenticeship Levy, and is part of a range of support for Scottish Levy payers, which includes the expansion of their Modern Apprenticeship programme. The FWDF will provide employers with workforce development training to up-skill and re-skill their existing workforce. It is in addition to apprenticeship support which all employers are eligible to access in Scotland; and, Individual Training Accounts (ITA’s) which provide eligible individuals with the opportunity to undertake learning opportunities to develop their skills for employment. The one-year pilot fund will focus on the up-skilling and re-skilling of existing employees of any age. The Scottish Government has provided £10 million to the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) for the FWDF to be made available through regional colleges and Scotland’s Rural College. It is estimated there are around 4,000 levy payers operating in Scotland across the private, public and third sector. In this pilot year the fund will be £10 million and Ministers have therefore agreed that each levy payer will be able to access up to a maximum total of £10,000 in 2017/18. Access for employers Colleges will work with levy paying employers in their region to create a ‘training needs analysis’ which should form the basis of the application. A template will be provided for employers to submit to colleges with their identified training needs.

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