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ISE Apprenticeships Conference 2025
Apprenticeships at the heart of a reformed skills strategy
Following on from the government's announcement for a new, comprehensive strategy for post-16 education, the ISE's Apprenticeships Conference explored the evolving landscape for apprenticeships whilst supporting those members who are delivering apprenticeships within their organisations and those considering adding apprenticeships to their early talent recruitment strategy.
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BPP - Headline Sponsor Session
Demystifying the Government's plans for apprenticeships and skills and the implications
for employers
The Government's new approach to skills, policy, and funding is taking shape through multiple initiatives: the formation of Skills England, the recent Budget update, the 'Get Britain Working Again' plan, 'The UK's Modern Industrial Strategy', the 'Devolution' White Papers, and the evolving Skills and Growth Levy. For businesses, navigating these external influences to develop an effective skills strategy is becoming increasingly complex.
This session aims to demystify the Government's plans and their implications for employers, particularly regarding apprenticeships, higher technical qualifications, skills boot camps, and T-level placements. We'll explore how these changes are driving the transition toward skills-based organisations, and why this matters for your business. And how analysing talent, labour, and skills data can help organisations become more skills-aware and better understand both their current and future skills needs to maintain competitiveness.
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Amazon
Bridging Gaps, Building Futures: Apprenticeships as a Catalyst for Social Inclusion
This session will explore how apprenticeships can be a powerful tool for fostering social inclusion, benefiting both new entrants to the workforce and existing employees. Amazon will delve into the concept of apprenticeships, examine the importance of social inclusion in the workplace, and discover how these two ideas intersect to create opportunities for diverse talent.
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Connectr Early Engagement with Employer Panel
Continuous learning: driving ROI on school and college engagement to support a diverse apprenticeship pipeline - what that looks like in year one of your outreach journey vs ten years in
For many organisations, apprenticeships are a key tool to get more diverse talent into their organisations.
But it can be challenging to know how to:
- Start in a manageable and accessible way.
- Evolve your programme to scale your impact, based on data. Including iterating your approach with the changing skills landscape.
- Set up your school and college engagement so that you are tracking the right information to understand your impact.
Connectr’s panel session will hear from three leading UK employers who are at different stages along their apprenticeship and school engagement journeys: From Year one to Year ten.
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Group GTI
Hiring regional apprentices: challenges, strategies, and insights
The panel session will be a directed conversation, chaired by GTI, between employers and apprentices, and topics will include:
- Regional apprentice hiring challenges
- Drivers for businesses hiring regionally (what’s the benefit to businesses?)
- Regional/relocation challenges from the apprentice’s perspective
- Successful attraction strategies (apprentice’s suggestions on how to reach people their age)
- Why students chose the apprenticeship route over further study
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HSBC with Line Manager and Apprentice Panel
Supporting apprentices to thrive: the manager and apprentice perspective
Hear from early careers cohorts and those that manage them day-to-day. This session will bring to life the training and support that managers and apprentices receive as part of our HSBC programme, and how that then supports managers to ensure apprentices have a great lived experience, can be themselves at work and thrive through their apprenticeship. We'll touch on how investing time with apprentices can create real value benefit for customers and the business, and how managers are critical to supporting apprentices to meet their key apprenticeship milestones by being prepared and informed.
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Severn Trent
Embracing Community and Partnership: A Regional Approach to Apprenticeship Recruitment at Severn Trent
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The ISE School & College Engagement Working Group
Insights and member feedback
The ISE School and College Engagement Working Group which was started in November 2024 and runs until April 2025, is collating a guide for members to be published in late Spring 2025.
Our 3 areas of focus are:
1. How to engage
- Understanding the different resources and timelines in schools & colleges
- When to engage with the different year groups
- What do schools & colleges need to enable young people to make good choices
- How many schools and colleges should you seek to engage
2. Your 'why' for this engagement and how to both deliver and measure ROI (i.e. how to secure stakeholder buy-in and budget)
3. The role of collaborations to to more with less, and specialist supplier partners, including
- Examples of sector and skills based collaborations
- What to look for in suppliers.
- The role of Local & combined Authorities, LEPs and the CEC
In this session, we will do a share of some key insights across the 3 topic areas to date, leading to roundtable style discussions so all members can have a voice as to what they need from the guide.
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Delegate Terms and Conditions
Delegate bookings: terms and conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the majority of ISE events. Should alternative terms and conditions apply, they will be linked to at the time of booking.
Full payment for delegate places must be made prior to the date of the event. Once a booking is submitted and received by ISE the booking constitutes a firm booking which can only be cancelled in accordance with our cancellation policy set out below.
Cancellation policy
All cancellations must be received by submitting a ‘request a refund’ email .This must then be followed by a telephone call to confirm receipt.
Delegate place cancellations received 29 days or more prior to an event will be entitled to a 100% credit voucher or refund. Cancellations received between 15 days and 28 days (inclusive) prior to the event will receive a 100% credit voucher to attend a future ISE event or a 75% refund. For cancellations received between 1 day and 14 days (inclusive) prior to the event, no credit voucher or refund will be given. Substitutions are welcome at any time.
Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no refund will be given.
Filming and recording
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The unauthorised use of photographic, sound or film equipment at an ISE event is strictly prohibited. If you wish to use this equipment, please contact the Events Team prior to the start of the event. The copyright is assigned to the ISE for any recordings of events produced by the ISE. Unauthorised recording may result in content being destroyed, and your removal from the event without a ticket refund.
Programme changes
Due to unforeseen circumstances the programme may change and ISE reserves the right to alter the venue and/or speakers. Any substitutions or alterations will be updated on our website as soon as possible.
ISE reserves the right to cancel an event if enrolment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. Every effort will be made to contact each enrollee if a programme is cancelled. If a programme is not held for any reason, ISE's liability is limited to the refund of the programme fee only.
ISE is not responsible for any loss or damage as a result of a speaker substitution, alteration, cancellation, or postponement of an event. ISE shall assume no liability whatsoever if an event is altered, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled due to a fortuitous event or unforeseen occurrence that renders performance of an event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible.
For purpose of this clause, a fortuitous event shall include, but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism: disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation facilities/means of transportation; or any other emergency.
Registration and payment details
Payment must be made in sterling in advance of the event in order for your booking to be processed. If payment has not been received two weeks before the event, credit card details will be required to guarantee and process your booking.
Delegate Lists
At many of our events we distribute delegates lists to attendees. These lists consist of the full name and company name of all registered attendees, but do not include contact details such as email addresses. If you don’t want to be on the delegate list for an event, please let us know by emailing events@ise.org.uk
Intellectual Property Rights
As a delegate you may receive and possess the course/workshop materials and use and circulate the course materials within your organisation. You may not use the course materials for resale or in the development of a commercial product without the prior written consent of the ISE. The ownership of the course intellectual property rights remain with the ISE unless agreed otherwise in writing with the ISE.
Travel and accommodation
Delegates are responsible for the arrangement and payment of their own travel and accommodation, unless specified otherwise. There are occasions where ISE will arrange a special room rate at a number of hotels. If this is the case it will be detailed on the promotional literature and webpage for that event.
Additional requirements
Please notify ISE when booking (and at least one month before the event date) if you have any additional special requirements to guarantee availability e.g. dietary, wheelchair access, large print, hearing loop etc.
Dissatisfaction with an event
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Our aim is to react to complaints in the way in which we would want our complaint about a service to be handled. We learn from every mistake that we make and we intend to respond to complainant's concerns in a professional manner.
Should an issue present itself whilst attending an ISE event, you are encouraged to raise this with a member of the ISE team working onsite. Wherever possible the team will endeavour to resolve any issues as the event takes place.
If you are dissatisfied with an event for any reason, please contact
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