Education and Skills Bill
12:00 pm
Professor Lorna Unwin: You are quite right: we do not have robust information on that. Part of the problem is that the Learning and Skills Council does not keep records of the employers involved. It keeps records of training providers, and it regards it as the business of training providers to keeps records of employers. From a research point of view, if we want access to apprenticeship employers, in the main we have to go through training providers, which often say, “That is commercial information.” What we need is a proper register of employers who have apprentices with them in the traditional sense—they have employment contracts and the business of the apprenticeship, to answer your question, is proper training and not just a work placement.