City of York Council

City of York Council is the local authority for the City of York and provides a broad education and skills offer that includes apprenticeships as part of its workforce development and wider economic strategy. Through its York Apprenticeship Hub and Skills Team, the council supports individuals, businesses and training providers to make use of apprenticeships, offering impartial information, advice and guidance, promoting vacancies and providing free advertising for recruiting employers via newsletters and social media. Apprenticeships are used extensively within the council and local authority maintained schools to support succession planning and upskilling of existing staff, as well as to recruit new talent into business-critical and technical roles, including trades, social care, professional and managerial positions. The council utilises its Apprenticeship Levy to fund training for its own employees and operates a Levy Transfer Scheme, making unallocated levy funds available to local employers in priority sectors to support new apprenticeship starts. Apprenticeships sit alongside a wider adult and community learning offer delivered by York Learning, a council service that provides largely Education and Skills Funding Agency–funded education and skills programmes for adults, including projects, apprenticeships and targeted support for learners with Education, Health and Care Plans.