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Adapt, sustain and strengthen your business

Whether it’s hiring someone new or developing an existing employee, apprenticeships can help provide the skills you need to adapt, sustain and strengthen your business. We'll guide you through getting started and support with the cost of training by paying the learning provider you choose.

  • Upskill your workforce
  • Meet your skills needs
  • Increase productivity

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Use our quick links to get the information you need.

Guidance for employers

Guidance and useful information to support you and your apprentice. There's also a handy guide to uploading vacancies.

Apprenticeship Group

Read about our Foundation, Modern and Graduate Apprenticeships - what they are and what benefits they bring.

Apprenticeship types

Browse the types of apprenticeship that fit your business. There's a wide range, from Accountancy to Rail Engineering, Travel, Youth Work and more.

Funding

Understand how funding helps with the cost of training an apprentice.

Learning providers

Find out what learning providers do and search for a provider in your local area.

Adopt an Apprentice

Discover what support you get by taking on a Modern Apprentice who has been made redundant.

Apprenticeship Levy

Discover who pays the Apprenticeship Levy and what it means for you.

Mental health resources

Find advice, tips and practical planning tools for supporting your apprentices' mental health at work.

Apprenticeship development

Find out how apprenticeships are developed - and how you could get involved with creating future opportunities.

Supported by

These are some of the employers who endorse Scottish Apprenticeships.

  • Scottish Chamber of Commerce
  • CBI
  • fsb
  • CeeD
  • Inspiring Business Scotland
  • Scottish Council for Development and Industry
  • Scottish Engineering
  • Scottish Training Federation

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Supporting Scotland’s Young Person’s Guarantee

 

Scottish Apprenticeships directly support Scotland’s Young Person’s Guarantee, providing job opportunities for thousands of young people. Find out more at www.youngpersonsguarantee.scot

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