Build Strong, Predictable Apprenticeship Performance

Boards and executive teams want apprenticeship delivery that is predictable, evidence‑based and consistently on‑track. Achieving this requires delivery conditions that are clearly defined, embedded across teams and monitored with precision.

I support organisations to strengthen these conditions by providing independent expertise focused on what genuinely shifts performance: robust planning, strong workplace application, reliable progress measures, purposeful reviews and steady readiness.

All work is shaped around your programmes, your people and your operational context, ensuring improvements are both practical and sustainable.

Assessment is moving into the programme

 
Revised assessment plans (phasing in from October 2025) are shorter, clearer and allow assessment to take place during delivery, with plan‑specified elements that may be delivered by providers under AO oversight.

Readiness must now be built steadily, not squeezed into the final weeks.

Planned end‑date risk is sharper

The January 2026 Accountability Framework update refined APPED and suspended several supplementary indicators, making on‑programme slippage more visible and more consequential.

Even one day past planned end contributes to provider risk.

If your system relies on late rescue, these changes will expose it.

Above‑national achievement is positive - but even at 75% achievement, one in four apprentices do not complete. No CEO wants to defend that in a boardroom.

Achievement shows the ending, not the journey. It will not reveal:

• Early drift
• Insufficient workplace evidence
• Weak application of learning
• Compressed readiness
• Planned‑end‑date pressure.

Strengthen the conditions underneath to make achievement reliable, not hopeful.