YLP Ltd
Employer Support
Supporting Local Businesses -
YLP are supporting businesses of all sizes with transferring levy underspend to other organisations in order to ensure continued delivery and commitment to apprenticeships.
We are working with a range of support organisations across the Yorkshire region to ensure the key messages for levy payers are understood and to help support smaller businesses and training providers coordinate the transfer process. We are working with the Federation of small businesses (FSB), West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and the Leeds City Region LEP – if you are a business or are working with a business that would like to find out more information please do not hesitate to contacts us for impartial, honest advice, guidance and support.
If you would like to find out more about the LEP Transfer services please visit – https://www.the-lep.com/all-news-and-blogs/lep-calls-on-local-businesses-to-make-the-most-of-the-apprenticeship-levy-and-support-their-local-communities/
YLP are also working in partnership with Health Education England and West Yorkshire Excellence Centre to support the transfer of NHS levy to smaller health related employers across the West Yorkshire area – this will fund both clinical and non-clinical apprenticeship standards. For more information or to be involved as an employer or training provider please contact – kelly.townend@wylp.org.uk
YLP are also a member of the Northern Powerhouse Partners programme and are committed to working with businesses across the North of England to recognise apprenticeships as an opportunity to strengthen and diversify the northern powerhouse workforce. An article written by the WYLP MD, Alex Miles, was recently issued to all NPH partner businesses on why Apprenticeships are the Future – which you can read here – https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c15ab84b26170277014024de6/files/d469233e-3c77-41ee-855d-092f5a223faf/Apprenticeships_are_the_future…_.pdf
Levy paying Employers:
The YLP Levy support service is an impartial advice & support service aimed at levy paying employers.
YLP can help coordinate levy funding and forecasting, workforce development planning, liaising with training organisations, supporting apprenticeship service requirements and act as the impartial broker for all aspects of apprenticeships.
YLP is not a training provider therefore does not sell, cold call or deliver training – we are a support agent working with the sector to aid employers & training providers with their apprenticeship programme and promote and grow the apprenticeship brand nationally.
YLP works with a wide range of employers- from large to small and understands the time, resource and commitment needed to fulfil apprenticeship levy requirements to ensure a successful and sustainable programme.
Some of the employers YLP support includes: WYG, Smiffy’s, The Open University, River Island, Housing Associations and Local Authorities.
For more information about the support that YLP can offer your organisation, please call the YLP office on 01274 665454 or email alex.miles@wylp.org.uk.
Non-Levy Employers:
If you are an employer with a payroll of less than £3 million, you are not required to pay the apprenticeship levy and are therefore non-levy funded employer.
Non-levy employers will share the cost of apprenticeship training with the Government and this is known as co-investment. The current co-investment requirement is 5% of the of apprenticeship funding, with the Government contributing the remaining 95%. The apprenticeship funding is based on a series of funding bands and these are negotiated between the employer and the training provider.
Currently non-levy employers can only work with approved training providers who have been allocated funds from the Skills Funding Agency. The Apprenticeship digital service is only open to levy employers at this time, but the hope is to move all employers onto the apprenticeship service in 2020.
Employers will need to agree a payment schedule with their chosen provider and pay them directly for the training. The provider must prove that you have paid your contributions as a condition of government paying its contribution.
To choose training you can use the ‘Find apprenticeship training’ service to select an approved apprenticeship training provider.
YLP can help support non-levy employers with planning their training requirements, understanding the different apprentice standards and signposting to high quality approved training providers. If you want to know more please contact the YLP office on 01274 665454 or email info@wylp.org.uk
“I contacted YLP as an employer who was trying to understand the intricacies of the apprenticeship levy scheme. The advantage of using YLP is that they can give informed, unbiased advice about the whole apprenticeship system. This can be from finding the right candidates, and how to go about doing so, to
understanding and using the Apprenticeship digital account system.
I found YLP to be extremely knowledgeable but in a way that was not patronising at all. Something I very much appreciated as someone who was completely new to Apprenticeships. However, they are also happy to learn new information from other sources.
Alex always responds quickly to any requests I may have, which is essential in this fast-paced environment.
Thank you, Alex and YLP!”