Apprenticeship targets

Public sector apprenticeship target data

This data has been published in accordance with the Public Sector Apprenticeship Target.

Public bodies employing more than 250 people are required to have regard to the target of 2.3% of employees being new starting apprentices.

2018 is the first year Public Bodies have been required to publish this data.

Submitted September 2018 for the reporting period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018: 

• Number of employees who were working in England on 31 March 2017: 2,885
  
• Number of employees who were working in England on 31 March 2018: 2,359
  
• Number of new employees who started working for you in England between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018: 516
  
• Number of apprentices who were working in England on 31 March 2017: 26
  
• Number of apprentices who were working in England on 31 March 2018: 31
  
• Number of new apprentices in England between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 (includes both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship): 31
  
• Full-time equivalents (optional): 1,892
  
• Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) as a proportion of employment starts between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018: 6.01%
  
• Percentage of total headcount that were apprentices on 31 March 2018: 1.31%
  
• Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 as a proportion of total headcount on 31 March 2017: 1.07%