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<br /><p>The Five Per Cent Club has been developed and is run by businesses themselves
who commit to making a public declaration to achieve five per cent of their company’s
overall UK headcount being an apprentice, a sponsored student or on a graduate programme.
We do not hold any information on the proportion of planned apprenticeships provided
by employers in the Five Per Cent Club which are expected to be taken up by apprentices
with special educational needs or disabilities.</p><br /><p>Thousands of disabled
people have benefitted from apprenticeships. Of the 499,900 starting an apprenticeship
in the 2014/15 academic year, 44,090 of those declared a disability or learning difficulty
(LDD).</p>
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