PFS 'confident apprenticeships will resume in due course'

Only 52 apprentices were able to begin their programme on time in London and Birmingham while 36 apprentices in the Bristol and Manchester cohorts were unable to start their courses because of funding issues. It is not clear why these regions in particular were unable to access proper funding.  The problem was caused by the government offering funding allocations to training providers that turned out to be much lower than the training providers anticipated, the PFS said. The funding issues were compounded by the snap general election, which saw the PFS and training providers unable to...