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Has anyone seen any recent guidance or clarification around whether the cap of 10 active/used funding reservations for non-levy paying employers will be increased or refreshed at the beginning on the new contract year?

Also, I'm pretty certain that if an apprentices withdraws from programme that this won't free up a funding reservation for an employer that has already utilised their 10 funding reservations but can anyone confirm this is the case for me?

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Martin West

That's all I have:

41.For the remainder of the FY2020-21, the number of ‘active’ or ‘used’ reservations
available to non-levy payers at any given time will increase from 3 to 10. This
enables non-levy paying employers to recruit more apprentices for their
businesses through the apprenticeship service. This policy will come into effect
from 15 July and will continue to be kept under review as we further assess how
the new system is working.

Ruth Canham-James

I've just seen a reply from the Apprenticeship Service about a related topic, in which they said "if an apprentice leaves then their reservation still counts as one of the 10". 

So if an employer has a couple of apprentices leave, they can't replace them. That seems really wrong. They can use transferred funds from a levy paying organisation if they have access to that, as this doesn't count towards the limit of ten.

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Hi Ruth - could you point me in the direction of the reply from the apprenticeship service that you're referring to?

Ruth Canham-James

@... - It was an email reply to one of our email queries, so I can't share it. If you contact the AS, I assume they will say the same thing.

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Thanks - I will raise a query in order to get a formal response that I can provide within the business.

Annabel Redshaw

Hi

If an apprentice withdraws or loses their job should we ask the employer to "stop" the apprentice on their account so they aren't showing as live anymore?