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Funding for Employers
SEE Information
£18.7m Skills for Employers and Employees (SEE) project provides businesses across North Wales with financial support to raise employee skills and knowledge. The project aims to support employers to build a skilled and adaptable workforce through subsidised training and development and has been extended to 2023. Vocational training is available in a range of key sectors including: Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering and Construction, Health and Social Care, Land-based, Energy and Professional Services. Coleg Cambria is the lead provider of a partnership with Grŵp and Llandrillo Menai providing training programmes across 6 counties of North Wales; Flintshire, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Conwy, Anglesey, Gwynedd to help improve Skills for Employers & Employees (SEE).
What support will I get?
There’s now an even higher level of financial support available through the project in response to the Covid-19 virus situation. Therefore you can reap the rewards of accessing up to 100% subsidised training for your workforce (eligibility criteria applies*) up until the 31st August 2021.
The Employer Engagement and ESF teams will help you carry out an assessment of your staff, and identify the skills gaps and training opportunities within your team. Once a training plan has been agreed, the approved providers will manage the courses on your behalf. All the courses will be specific to the needs of your business and selected to bring the very best out of your team.
*Business must not have exceeded receipt of maximum value 200,000 euros of De Minimis state aid in the last 3 financial years. De Minimis declaration required.
Download the list of subsided courses here
For further information about the project, please contact employers@cambria.ac.uk or call 0300 30 30 006.
Apprenticeship Funding
Develop your workforce with fully funded Apprenticeship programmes.
Do you wish to upskill your existing workforce? Did you know you can benefit from recent changes in Welsh Government funding? As part of Welsh Government’s spirit to create a ‘Prosperous and Secure’ Wales, employees of any age and length of service can now benefit from the fully funded Apprenticeship programme. If you want to expand your business, develop a skilled workforce, reduce training and recruitment costs there’s no better time than today. Contact the Cambria for Business team for further information on 0300 30 30 006.
Apprenticeship Recruitment support
The apprenticeship incentives, which will run from August 2020 to 28 February 2022, will help businesses to recruit apprentices, supporting the development of a workforce that is able to meet changing business needs.
Incentive payment for employing 16-24 year olds
- £4,000 for each new apprentice recruited aged under 25 where the contract of employment is for at least 30 hours per week.
- £2,000 for each new apprentice recruited aged under 25 where the contract of employment is under 30 hours per week.
- Payments will be limited to a maximum of ten apprentices per employer.
- This incentive applies to apprenticeships delivered at Levels 2-5 only.
Incentive payment for employing apprentices aged 25 and over
- £2,000 for each new apprentice recruited aged 25 and over where the contract of employment is for at least 30 hours per week.
- £1,000 for each new apprentice recruited aged 25 and over where the contract of employment is under 30 hours per week.
- Payments will be limited to a maximum of ten apprentices per employer
- This incentive applies to apprenticeships delivered at Levels 2-5 only.
Re-employment of Redundant apprentices
- £2,600 for the re-employment of redundant apprentices to allow them to compete their training, where the contract of employment is at least 30 hours per week.
- £1,300 for the re-employment of redundant apprentices to allow them to complete their training, where the contract of employment is less than 30 hours per week.
- The incentive applies to apprentices made redundant between 23 March 2020 and 28 February 2022.
- The incentive for employing redundant apprentices applies to all redundant apprentices irrespective of age.
- The apprentice must continue to follow the same Apprenticeship Framework Pathway.
- This incentive applies to apprenticeships delivered at Levels 2-5 only.
Incentive payment for employing Disabled People
- £1,500 for each new apprentice recruited.
- Payments apply to all apprentices identified as disabled irrespective of age.
- Payments can be claimed in addition to the 16-24, 25 and over and redundancy incentives.
- This incentive applies to apprenticeships delivered at Levels 2-5 only.
Exceptions
- Employers recruiting on zero hour contracts are ineligible for the apprenticeship recruitment incentives.
- Shared Apprenticeship models are ineligible for the apprenticeship recruitment incentives.
To confirm eligibility and ensure learners can be signed up in the contractually agreed 2 week time scale from the start of their job role, please contact Cambria for Business on employers@cambria.ac.uk or call 0300 30 30 006
