Apprenticeship Equality Action Plan: final report 2015-2021

Five years ago, the Scottish Government set out its aspirations through Developing the Young Workforce [DYW] recommendations to raise the agenda on equality in the workplace. This document is a summary of the collective achievement in the response to delivering against those recommendations through apprenticeships. Since 2015, we have reported annually on the progress we have made against the commitments and DYW targets set out in our original Apprenticeship Equality Action Plan [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 130.382]. However, as we have now concluded the final year of this plan, this report provides an overview of our journey from the last five years.

It details our: key achievements since 2015; learning gained through the delivery of our activity aimed at increasing equality and diversity in apprenticeships; planned future activity in relation to helping address both individual and system wide challenges to remove barriers to apprenticeships, and more widely inequality in education. In the following sections, we address in turn the questions of what we have achieved and learned, what is still to be done, and in response what our future focus will be. Each section contains reflections on: Evidence and understanding of the issues; Strategic partnerships to influence policy and practice; Building capacity across the delivery landscape; and Outcomes.

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