Setting up and implementing an apprenticeship scheme to recover your apprenticeship levy is complex, time-consuming and needs expert knowledge. The National Skills Academy for Rail (NSAR) Apprenticeship Levy Planner will help explain the process and help you to get the most out of your apprenticeship programme.

The Apprenticeship Levy Planner helps you:

  • quickly and easily model the apprenticeship programmes that best fit your needs
  • immediately see how much of your levy contribution has been recovered

Its easy to use calculator helps employers to:

  • quickly see how to optimise its levy contribution
  • determine the right mix between new entrants and up-skilling to achieve apprenticeship numbers
  • ensure you're developing and investing in the skills your business needs for the future

Rather than focusing on a one-year period, with the planner, NSAR will work with you to produce a strategic apprenticeship resource plan that covers a period of many years, such as a rail franchising period. This enables greater control over your levy spending and supports you to plan for the future.

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Benefits of the Levy Planner

The Levy Planner:

  • allows you to model your apprenticeship plans to make sure you are using the apprenticeship levy in a way that works for you and your business
  • is intuitive and easy to use
  • is populated with the latest funding information, to help you in calculating the cost and benefit of your apprenticeship strategy
  • helps you understand the impact on your apprenticeship levy of taking on more apprentices
  • provides valuable information to support future resource planning

The Levy Planner includes automated reports. The reports mean you can quickly and easily find out:

  • how much of your levy has been used
  • how much has been paid
  • how much is at risk
  • how much has been lost
  • the employer and government contributions, compared to the total amount of levy used and paid
  • the number of apprentices by standard and level

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