With an early release of the new apprenticeship funding rules (2025/26) due to be published in May, join us for our annual business-critical webinar series – now in three parts to help you plan for the changes and understand the practical actions you will need to take across your organisation.
It’s easy to note down a list of funding rule changes – it’s more complex to evaluate their impact and how you might practically implement them in a way that is effective and efficient.
That’s where we do a lot of thinking for you. Using the stages of the learner journey, this 3-part webinar series will walk through the updates, what it means operationally for different teams along the way, where new risks might arise and practical ways you can mitigate them. It will also include the latest critical changes to the functional skills implementation, new minimum durations as well as clarifications to 25/26 rules.
We’ll also give you a detailed “Changes Action Plan”, setting out all the key changes and actions you need to take across different teams.
Session 1 – Laying the ground (2nd June 10.00am-10.45am)
After the DfE’s announcement that there will be no draft funding rules this year, we have added this additional webinar to our funding rules series - at no extra charge - to help you lay the best foundations for August implementation
Following the first release of the first version of the funding rules in May, this session will cover the headline changes and start the process of preparing for change.
- Break down each of the funding rule changes
- Explore the impact for independent providers, universities, colleges, and employer providers
- Identify key risks across your organisation
Session 2 – Detailed implementation (3 July 10.00am-1.00pm)
Having consolidated the rules and developed models of best practice, for change this session will explore:
- How the funding rule changes will impact on the learner journey:
- – Pre-entry
- – Entry
- – On-programme
- – Gateway and end-point assessment
- – Progression
- Specific changes you will need to make to your ILR and funding administration and management
- Practical adaptions you will need to make to your systems, processes and templates
- Q&A
- We will issue a detailed implementation action plan to work through with this session
Session 3 – Supporting change (28th July 10.00am-11.00am)
Taking account of any further clarifications and further examples of best practice, this Q&A session will include quality perspectives on the changes as well as the opportunity to get best practice answers to your questions
- Updates and clarifications
Cost
Single ticket for the 3 part webinar series – £225.00 (+VAT)
Group ticket for the 3 part webinar series – £395.00 (+VAT) – Max 5 attendees
Who is this in-depth webinar for?
For apprenticeship providers - compliance and operational staff, quality managers, and leaders overseeing the impact on the apprenticeship delivery journey.
Feedback received from delegates on David's recent webinar sessions:
"This was excellent. You feel that an awful lot of work has gone into producing this, packed with helpful content, guidance and experience. Thank you so much!"
"Thank you for all your hard work, it really was excellent."
"I will be recommending colleagues to sign up to training alerts. Really looking forward to attending other sessions."
Facilitators and speakers
The session will be facilitated by David Lockhart-Hawkins, SDN’s compliance expert who has supported hundreds of providers in their apprenticeship journey including some of the UK’s largest, highest quality, specialist and new providers. David’s in-depth understanding of curriculum design and quality, as well as funding, gives him a unique insight into the practical implications of funding rule changes.
Why an SDN webinar?
SDN has directly supported 5,000 apprenticeship staff, from 1,000 organisations, to prepare to deliver apprenticeship standards and end-point assessment. We’ve also worked closely with over 80 of the trailblazer employer groups, giving us a unique insight into what is required.
Payment
To keep prices down, payment for this event must be made online via credit card (book below). If you are a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority) who is unable to book via card, please email us on: events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk
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