On this page you'll find easily accessible information on apprenticeships for each locality in the West Midlands.
Background
The Economic Inclusion Panel identified access to high level accessible information on apprenticeships as a major gap for public and private sector leaders.
The Observatory was commissioned, through the Economic Inclusion Panel research programme, to work with the National Apprenticeships Service (NAS) to develop a high level data analysis pack. The aim of the pack is to provide an easily accessible view of the supply and demand for apprenticeships in each locality, for use by local authority chief executives and business leaders.
The packs are available to download at the bottom of this page.
Aims
The aims of the pack were that they should be:
- High level – the audience is local authority chief executives, business leaders, and Local Enterprise Partnerships
- Consistent – information should be presented in same way for each area
- Concise – a set of key slides for each area providing key performance information
- Partners agreed the pack should cover four key issues:
- Level of vacancies
- Rates of attrition
- Supply and demand
- Distribution of opportunities
The packs
A dashboard is available for England, the West Midlands and for each unitary local authority area.
Also, there is also a set of PowerPoint slides for each unitary local authority area.
Coverage
For each locality, the packs provide benchmarked information on:
- Volume of apprenticeships and uptake by size of population
- Attrition and completion rates
- Take up of apprenticeships by age, gender and ethnicity
- Applicants per apprenticeship vacancy
- Apprenticeships by subject area
Additionally, for the West Midlands and England packs, there is information on apprenticeships by industry sector and by size of employer.
Please use these explanatory notes (pdf, 189kb) in conjunction with the dashboards and slides.