Yesterday, the department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a modified version of the Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England (SASE).
This amended SASE document comes into effect from 6 April 2015 and will apply only to apprentices starting from that date.
However, it is still unclear whether the new rules will have any practical effect as the early years apprenticeship framework has not yet been amended.
While SASE sets the minimum requirements for apprenticeship frameworks, separate frameworks are then developed for each sector. The early years interim apprenticeship framework repeats the five-year-rule because it was stated in the previous version of SASE.
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