The guidance to businesses with apprentices has been updated to:
- remove the apprentices on furlough section, now that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has ended
- reflect Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education extending end-point assessment discretions and flexibilities
- remove the following temporary flexibilities:
- permitting email confirmation as evidence of achievement of qualifications where awarding organisations were unable to issue certificates
2. enabling apprentices to spend more than 50% of their working hours outside England where they were unable to return to England to work
3. permitting end-point assessment prior to FSQ achievement.