THE SIX QUESTIONS

These six questions make it easier to see what your apprenticeship provision is actually delivering in practice.

They are simple.  But not always easy to answer clearly. 

If you asked your senior apprenticeship leadership team:

What matters most in our apprenticeships - what has to go well for us to consider them successful?

What would they say? 

What evidence would they point to?

If you asked your apprentices:

What can you now do in your role - as a result of your apprenticeship training in the past 4 weeks - that you could not do before?

What would they say?

Would you consider that enough progress for the time invested?

If you asked line managers:

What can your apprentice now do in their role - as a result of their apprenticeship training in the past 4 weeks - and what difference has that made?

What would they say?

At any point in the programme:

What is the apprentice actually working to improve?

And how is that being supported and checked in the workplace?

At the end of the planned training period, are your apprentices:

• Able to perform the role
• Working consistently
• Trusted by managers.

Or are they still developing towards that point?

Based on the answers to the previous questions:

Is your apprenticeship provision delivering what you expected - and what your organisation actually needs?

If not - what needs to change - and why?