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<p>We are committed to ensuring that apprenticeships are as accessible as possible
to all people from all backgrounds.</p><p>We are undertaking a range of activities
to increase the awareness amongst young people of the available apprenticeship options,
including the four-year Get In Go Far campaign that launched in May 2016. The campaign
aims to influence public perceptions, awareness and attitudes towards apprenticeships
as a route into a successful career, helping young people aged 14-24 to get the skills
they need, and encouraging more young people to apply and more employers to offer
apprenticeship opportunities.</p><p>As part of reforms to the routes from compulsory
school to employment, we set out new professional and technical routes, which will
all lead to employment or degree-level study. This aims to ensure that young people
have the education and skills to get into higher paid, long-term employment, including
apprenticeships.</p><p>We are increasing numbers of traineeships to further support
young people, including those from areas of disadvantage, into apprenticeships and
further work. Traineeships show good representation for both BAME and LDD groups (22.6%
and 19.7% respectively).</p><p>We remain committed to increasing the proportion of
apprenticeships starts from people from BAME communities and have already put in place
measures to support this, including: encouraging more people from BAME communities
to apply for apprenticeships through communications and marketing; providing BAME
role models in the Get in Go Far campaign; helping BAME apprenticeship applicants
to have better rates of success in applications; and establishing a network of employer
diversity ‘champions’.</p><p>Recommendations from the LLD Taskforce led by Paul Maynard
were accepted and published on 11 July, and will benefit a broader group of disabled
apprentices. Work has begun on its implementation.</p>
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