L ocal government provides everything from housing to refuse collection. It is also a significant supporter of apprenticeships, hosting thousands each year. Apprentices learn part-time and work part-time as part of a path into a specific job, such as administrator or social worker. Spotlight crunched the data to get a picture of apprenticeships in local authorities.
Like most of the public sector, local government is behind on its target. The government’s aim is for apprentices to make up at least 2.3 per cent of the public sector’s overall workforce by 2021. The armed forces and fire authorities were the only ones to hit that goal in 2019-20.
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