Entry Form

Entries for the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers must be made using this entry form before 5pm on Thursday 14^th April.

Apprenticeship programmes described in your entry must refer to apprenticeships based in England that meet approved Apprenticeship Standards or apprenticeship frameworks (compliant with the Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England).

Entries for the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers are open to employers with 250 employees or more that are employing a minimum of 25 apprentices at the time of entry.

Entries for the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers are open to small & medium-sized employers with 10-249 employees that are employing a minimum of 3 apprentices at the time of entry.

It is a condition of entry that you agree to take part in a short follow-up data check by email or telephone, as part of the verification process for all entries.

Please begin by providing the following information about your organisation.

Name of Employer	Please enter your employer name
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
Address Line 3
Town/City
County
Postcode

About Your Organisation
My organisation pays the Apprenticeship Levy Yes No
My organisation uses the 'Recruit an Apprentice' service Yes No
My organisation provides T-level industry placements Yes No
My organisation offers Traineeships Yes No
My organisation is a member of the Apprenticeship Ambassador Network Yes No
My organisation engages with schools & sixth form colleges Yes No

Please give the total number of employees (or an estimated figure) at all of your offices and sites within England. Do not include staff who are employed in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or overseas.

Entry Category

Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers (for employers with 250 employees or more that currently employ a minimum of 25 apprentices)

Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers (for SME employers with 10-249 employees that currently employ a minimum of 3 apprentices)

Now, please complete the following four questions about the apprenticeships at your organisation and your apprentice recruitment over the last 12 months. Advisory notes are included with each question, providing guidance about the information required.

1. How many apprentices are currently employed by your organisation?

Level 2	Level 4	Level 6
Level 3	Level 5	Level 7

Only include details of your apprentices who are employed in England and are completing apprenticeships that meet approved Apprenticeship Standards or apprenticeship frameworks (compliant with the Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England).

2. How many apprentices started (or will start) an apprenticeship with your organisation between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022? Please state whether these apprentices were recruited from outside your organisation, transferred from a previous apprenticeship, or are existing employees.

	Recruited from outside organisation	Progressed from previous apprenticeship	Existing Employee	TOTAL
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7

For example, a total of 58 apprentices started Level 3 apprenticeships with your organisation during the last 12 months. Of these, 22 were recruited from outside the organisation, 19 progressed from completing a Level 2 apprenticeship at your organisation, and the remaining 17 apprentices were existing employees.

3. Please give details about the diversity of the apprentices that started (or will start) an apprenticeship with your organisation between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022.

For example, a total of 110 apprentices started an apprenticeship with your organisation during the last 12 months. Of these, 65 apprentices are male, 45 are female; 3 apprentices are aged 16-18 years old, 56 apprentices are aged 19-24 years old, and 51 apprentices are aged 25+ years old; 23 are black, Asian & ethnic minority apprentices; and 6 apprentices have learning difficulties or disabilities.

4. Thinking about the apprentices who were due to complete their apprenticeships at your organisation between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, what was the outcome of their apprenticeships?

For example, 60 apprentices began a two-year Level 3 apprenticeship at your organisation in September 2019. During the two-year apprenticeship, 5 apprentices dropped out, but from remainder, 48 successfully achieved their apprenticeship in autumn 2021 by passing an End-Point Assessment (EPA) for their apprenticeship. A total of 43 of these apprentices continued to be employed by your organisation or progressed to another apprenticeship programme. You would therefore enter '60' for part (a), '48' for part (b), and '43' for part (c).

Please note, if an apprenticeship was on a framework (not a standard), then apprentices must have fulfilled all aspects of their apprenticeship to gain the apprenticeship completion certificate, in order to be counted as having 'successfully achieved' their apprenticeships.

Finally, please complete the following Employer Declaration and your contact details, which will be used to arrange a short follow-up data check by email or telephone, as part of the verification process for your entry, and to invite you to the launch of the new rankings in summer 2022.

EMPLOYER DECLARATION

I certify that the information I have provided in this entry is accurate and complete and that I agree to take part in a short follow-up telephone interview as part of the process to verify the data I am submitting.

Please check the box above to continue

I have read and agree to the Terms & Conditions of entry.

Please check the box above to continue

Entries for The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and The Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers for 2022 are subject to the following terms and conditions:

Entries will only be accepted when submitted via the official online entry form before the entry deadline of 5pm on Thursday 14th April 2022.
Entries cannot be amended after the entry deadline has passed.
The organisers cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage of any entry. All entry forms will be acknowledged.
All entries will be treated in the strictest confidence.
The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers are limited to employers in England. Entries from employers in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are not eligible unless they refer to apprenticeships that have taken place in England.
The minimum entry requirements for employers entering the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers are that the employer must have a workforce of 250 employees or more and employ a minimum of 25 apprentices. The minimum entry requirements for employers entering the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers are that the employer must have a workforce of 10-249 employees and employ a minimum of 3 apprentices.
All entries will be vetted and verified for accuracy before being assessed and scored.
All entrants will be required to take part in a follow-up data check by email or telephone as part of the vetting and verification process.
Entries may be edited by the organisers to correct any erroneous data or administrative information provided.
Should it come to light that there are issues, whether ethical or factual, pertaining to any entry, the organisers reserve the right to withdraw the entry.
The one hundred entries from larger employers (with 250 or more employees) with the highest scores will be ranked to form the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for 2022. The fifty entries from SME employers (with 10-249 employees) with the highest scores will be ranked to form the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers for 2022.
The organiser's decisions will be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
Information supplied in entries that are ranked in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers may be published or announced at the launch event for the rankings and in subsequent publicity associated with the rankings. Commercially sensitive information will not be shared.
The organisers reserve the right to cancel or amend the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers and these terms and conditions without notice for any event that is outside of the organiser's reasonable control.
It is the responsibility of entrants to keep themselves informed as to any changes to the terms and conditions of entry. The latest version of the Terms and Conditions will always be available on the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers website.

The organiser of the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers is the Department for Education.

Hide Terms & Conditions

In order to process and communicate with you about your entry for the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers or Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers, the Department for Education (DfE) needs to obtain your consent to take, hold and share your personal data, which will be limited to your name, email address, contact telephone number, job title and employer name.

To provide consent for the DfE to use your personal data, as stated above, please tick this box

Please check the box above to continue

All personal information stored will be treated as confidential and will adhere to data privacy requirements. We will share your personal information with our research partner High Fliers Research and other third parties involved in the planning and delivery of the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers. Click here to view our Privacy Notice.

Please enter your email address