Apprenticeship Awards 2008

Employer of the Year Award

Farthings Veterinary Group

Employer of the Year 2007
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Are you an employer with a difference?

Are you committed to training your workforce through Apprenticeships? Are Apprenticeships adding value to your business? Have Apprenticeships helped increase your company’s productivity, or led to more innovative ways of working?

If you can clearly show a dynamic approach to training, together with evidence of commercial gain and positive plans for Apprenticeship training in the future, this award is for you.
Tell us your story and you could be Employer of the Year 2008.

Who should enter?

Employers in England, who, during 2007, have Learning and Skills Council funded apprentices within their organisation.

Don’t forget if you have an outstanding apprentice who has exceeded your expectations or has overcome difficulties to succeed on their Apprenticeship, visit the Apprentice of the Year and Personal Achiever of the Year Award pages.

What makes a winner?

The Employer of the Year Award is designed to acknowledge and celebrate employers’ commitment to developing their workforce through Apprenticeships.

There are four categories within this Award to recognise the different approaches taken to deliver Apprenticeships in organisations of differing sizes. These are:

Micro Employer of the Year: 1 and 9 employees
Small Employer of the Year: 10 to 49 employees
Medium Employer of the Year: 50 to 249 employees
Large Employer of the Year: over 250 employees

Judges are looking for employers that can clearly show the benefits they have gained from a commitment to training their workforce through Apprenticeships. In particular, those that can demonstrate the following:

Commitment:

To training their workforce
To embedding a training culture in their company
To the range/number of Apprenticeship frameworks supported
To future training and Apprenticeship development

Business benefits:

The training has enabled the business to improve, grow and perhaps even survive
The benefits are measurable and quantifiable
Best practice and transferability:
The entrant is an exemplar, and has the potential to act as a role model for other employers

For large employers, in addition to the above, judges will expect to see:

Evidence of activities above and beyond the baseline requirements of the Apprenticeship framework
A range of innovative benefits for your apprentices
What makes their Apprenticeship programme stand out from other employers’

As a winner you will enjoy:

‘Employer of the Year’ status in a given company size category
The business kudos associated with winning an important national award and regional and national publicity
Potential for further recognition as a national ‘role model’ for other employers
Attendance at an Oscar-style celebratory awards ceremony at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London on the evening of 10th July 2008

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