Nursery World - New inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships

An inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships and skills training has been launched by the Education Select Committee.

The inquiry, launched today (Thursday), will cover apprenticeships and skills training across different sectors, including childcare.

It will examine whether employers, learners and tax payers are getting sufficient value for the time and money invested in training, and whether more needs to be done to detect poor-quality provision.

Also, up for scrutiny will be the barriers to the socially disadvantaged accessing skills training and how Government funding could be used to remove these.

The Committee says that while many independent training providers and further education colleges are providing excellent training, too much provision is poor.

In August, the Department for Education withdrew funding from Learndirect, the biggest provider of childcare apprenticeships, after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted.

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