Ministers urged to double apprentices' funding

THE next Welsh Government should commit to doubling investment in apprenticeships to support 200,000 over the next Senedd term, says the National Training Federation for Wales (NTFW).

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The representative body for training providers in Wales has published its manifesto for apprenticeships. It highlights research from Centre for Economics and Business Research that concludes that a doubling of investment for apprenticeships over the next Senedd term could generate £3.4bn in additional lifetime earnings for people in Wales over the next 30 years.

The manifesto calls on the next Welsh Government to restore money cut from the apprenticeship budget last year and to introduce long-term, sustainable funding that offers equity with other forms of post-16 education.