Recommendation 16

Skills England must undertake a review to ensure that it supports a range of modular or part-time apprenticeships, or other training options in the transport manufacturing sector, to help attract candidates with caring responsibilities or those returning to work from career breaks. Manufacturers receiving levy funding or apprenticeship support should be required to report annually to Skills England on the uptake of those training options by candidates with caring responsibilities or those returning to work from career breaks, to ensure the support is reaching that cohort. Where uptake is low, the options should be revised, or future support should be made contingent on increased levels of uptake. The Government should also consider whether release of levy funding should be made contingent on employers’ delivery against their own diversity targets. (Recommendation, Paragraph 75) 35