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CBI CALLS FOR SHAKE-UP OF CRIMINAL RECORD

APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM DISCLOSURE SCHEME
INFRINGES HUMAN

RIGHTS, SUPREME
COURT RULES

HALF OF BUSINESSES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO
SPEND THEIR FIRST TRANCHE OF LEVY FUNDING

ONE OF THE UK’S leading business medium- to long-term decisions on
bodies is backing calls for a shake- their apprenticeship programmes, while UNDER CURRENT RULES, CHILDHOOD
up of the skills system to ensure urging the IfATE to be more transparent CAUTIONS CAN BE DISCLOSED INDEFINITELY
apprenticeships lead to high-skilled, over funding decisions, according to
high-paid jobs. People Management. THE WAY WORKERS’ criminal
In a report, the Confederation The report recommended an appeal records are disclosed to employers
of British Industry (CBI) called for system to give employers more infringes their human rights, the
reform and regulation of the current time to spend money on existing Supreme Court has ruled.
system by ensuring the Institute for apprenticeship schemes before the first In particular, the court rejected as
Apprenticeships (IfA) is given more round of apprenticeship levy funding “disproportionate” the blanket rules
independence. expires in April this year. requiring automatic disclosure of
In the report, Getting Apprenticeships According to research by People all convictions where a person has
Right: Next Steps, the CBI urged the Management, half of businesses are not more than one, and the requirement
government to ensure the IfA – which expecting to spend all their first tranche that some childhood cautions be
officially changed its name earlier this of levy funding. disclosed indefinitely.
year to the Institute for Apprenticeships The CBI said IfATE should also be The landmark judgment upholds
and Technical Education (IfATE) – was the given an advisory role on any future previous rulings by lower courts that
“principal body” for vocational skills and levy changes. the Disclosure and Barring Service
technical education in England and that The IfATE’s name change comes as (DBS) scheme was “not in accordance
it had the clout to hold policymakers and the body assumes responsibility for with the law”, since it breached the
the skills sector to account. the government’s T-level educational right to a private life, stipulated by
It also called on the government to qualification, due to be introduced in article 8 of the European Convention
ensure apprenticeship funding was 2020 as a vocational equivalent to the on Human Rights.
stable, to allow employers to take ubiquitous A-levels.

SKILLS GAPS CRISIS WIDENS AS EMPLOYERS skills regardless of age or career stage.

FAIL TO DEVELOP ENTIRE WORKFORCE are getting enough help and support
However, less than half (46 per cent)
from their employer to develop the
NEW RESEARCH by leading skills workplace skills they will need in the
body City & Guilds Group reveals that future, reports The HR Director.
British workers are being denied critical The findings go on to show that
opportunities to up-skill for the future. while 81 per cent of workers believe
The research, carried out amongst the skills they need to do their job
2,000 full and part-time workers in will change over the next five years, a
Great Britain in partnership with quarter (24 per cent) of British workers
YouGov, highlights that 76 per cent of are not getting sufficient feedback from
BRITISH WORKERS DENIED the workforce agree it is important to their managers or colleagues on the
CHANCE TO BUILD SKILLS continuously update their workplace skills they should be learning.

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