The automotive industry needs to attract new talent, the IMI’s Steve Nash has said ahead of National Apprenticeship Week 2021, which takes place next week (8 to 14 February).
The annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, taking place across England, will showcase how apprenticeships have helped employers and people of all ages and backgrounds.
Steve Nash said that the pandemic severely disrupted apprenticeships but warned that the rapid move to electrified vehicles, more connected systems and autonomous technologies now requires the development of highly skilled employees.
He said: “Everyone in the industry should be thinking about this.
“The money is there.
“The Apprenticeship Levy is certainly not be perfect, and we are regularly lobbying Skills and Apprenticeships Minister Gillian Keegan on that issue.
“But it nevertheless ring fences funds to help companies take on and train apprentices.
“So, if you’re a large employer you need to act as the apprenticeship funds do have a use-by date.
“It’s better to spend your levy on training before the government takes the money back…..and believe me they have no intention of granting any extension on the clawback of funds because, as Minister Gillian Keegan has pointed out to us, whilst many of the larger employers in our sector may have regularly used most or all of their accrued levy funds, the bigger picture across all sectors is that only around 50 per cent of the levy funds get used by employers.
“That money of course goes towards funding apprenticeships for smaller, non-levy paying employers.”
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