Civil Service apprenticeship data: 2019 to 2020
Civil Service apprenticeship targets and actual outturn starts for April 2019 to March 2020.
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Apprentices are core to our ambition to become a brilliant Civil Service. Not only do they support our commitment to building a broader set of skills and knowledge in the Civil Service, but they allow us to offer more varied career pathways that will help us retain and attract the best talent. Following the recent pandemic, apprenticeships will be key to getting young people employment experience across a range of professions. This has been recognised in the Plan for Jobs which offers employers incentives to recruit new apprentices from August 2020 to January 2021. 7,477 apprentices started in the Civil Service this year (April 2019- March 2020), and we are making good progress towards the public sector apprenticeship target; currently this sits at 2.1% of Civil Service staff being new apprentice starts for this reporting period.
Background
- Apprentice starts in the Civil Service have continued to increase since April 2017. This year, we have seen a 37% increase in the number of new apprenticeship starts - 5,460 in 2019 to 7,477 in 2020.
- Departments who missed the 2.3% target this year have been given an adjusted target, to enable them to meet their 2.3% average by March 2021.
- These statistics cover Civil Service (England) apprenticeships only. Wider public-sector bodies will publish their own data separately, and the Department for Education will publish an overall analysis of the wider public sector in November.