Payments Simplification
National Apprenticeship Week 2025This article sits within the National Apprenticeship Week 2025 sectionAnnouncement during National Apprenticeship Week 2025
In February 2025, the Government announced the simplification of the payments process for apprenticeship training providers.
From August 2025 the Department for Education will begin to remove the data duplication required from providers to submit overlapping data via both the ILR & Apprenticeship Service account to receive funding for apprenticeship training.
This change will eliminate data mismatches between the ILR and Apprenticeship Service submissions, addressing existing issues for training providers. It will also:
- significantly reduce the administrative burden on training providers and employers
- improve cash flow for providers
- minimise payment delays and increase data accuracy
- remove the need for providers to enter data into the Apprenticeship Service
- provide a single data source, reducing data locks and speeding up payments to providers while giving the DfE faster access to apprenticeship data
Further detail on implementation will follow in due course.
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