Service principles

 

ASAP is:

• Young person centred
• Future focused
• About business enablement and growth

 

Our Aims:

• Establish a private company to facilitate the development of the programme
• Develop clear career progression routes from school to employment
• Recruit 12 apprentices in year 1 of operating (2015/16)
• Subsequently recruit 12 apprentices each year until the company employs a maximum of 48 apprentices (year 4)
• Work with council services to embed apprenticeship clauses into all major capital spend contracts
• Work with industry and partners to offer a new way of delivering apprenticeships across Scotland
• Share best practice with others
• Expand the programme into neighbouring local authority areas

Public Sector benefits

• Investment in youth employment
• Addresses skills shortages
• Helps council achieve additional support to youth employment
• Closely linked to community benefit clauses and allows MA recruitment to be achieved even when the contract works is for less than the duration of the MA programme

 

Business benefits

• Injection of talented young people to the business (mainly 16-19 years old)
• Provides a wider range of skills
• Reduces risk of selecting the 'wrong ' person
• Allows employers to grow their own staff
• Removes financial risk to the business
• Increases business potential to secure new contracts
• Future proofing the industry

 

Apprentice benefits

• Offers a clear progression route from school into training and employment
• Offers experience across a wide range of training
• Gives job security over the term of their apprenticeship
• Develops vocational and life skills