8th Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health?
- HC No.
- HC 1017
- Published
- 6 Dec 2018
- Items
- 0
- Government response
- Government response published 4 March 2019. Read the government's response ↗
Select committee: Education Committee
Nursing apprenticeships inquiry
Closed
Opened 24 Apr 2018
Closed 24 Apr 2018
Education Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Committee focussed on how nursing degree apprenticeships are currently working as well as reasons behind the low level of take up since the scheme was announced in 2016.
Where it stands
The inquiry is closed, opened 24 April 2018.
The committee has published 1 report, most recently 8th Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health? on 6 December 2018.
The government's response
Published 4 March 2019.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government states that it agrees with the Committee's recommendations on NHS support for nursing apprenticeships and on CPD, but "do[es] not agree" on the funding band and has "no plans" to extend levy expiry or widen levy-funded costs.
- On the Committee's recommendations to maintain a conversation with the NHS and expand nursing degree apprenticeships, the Government says "We agree with the Committee's recommendations" and points to partner-led support for NHS employers.
- On the £27,000 funding band, it states "We do not agree", saying an increase would make the programme "unaffordable" and that it has "no plans to raise the £27,000 limit".
- On levy flexibility, it says employers should cover employment costs and that wider funding criteria would make the programme "unaffordable"; it has "no plans to extend" the 24 month expiry period.
- On CPD, it agrees with the recommendations. Baroness Harding and Sir David Behan will present initial recommendations to DHSC in Spring 2019, with a final workforce implementation plan "later in the year".
Reports
- 8th Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health?6 December 2018
Evidence
- 2 oral evidence sessionsLatest 17 July 2018
Recent activity
- 8th Special Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health?: Government response to the Committee’s Eighth Report4 March 2019, Report published
- 8th Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health?6 December 2018, Report published
- Oral evidence session17 July 2018, Oral evidence
Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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