What is Required (Refresh and New Applications)?
Providers can only apply once in a 12 month period, and are advised to allow at least 12 weeks for the ESFA to assess your application.
The application form can be broken down into 4 different sections:
- Company Due Dilligence
- Financials
- Required Documentation
- Text Responses and delivery information
Information on what is required for each of these sections is broken down below.
If you would like our support with an application contact us at apply@roatp.info – our consultants have a 100% track record with RoATP applications
Company Due Dilligence
A basic (but lengthy) section covering details about your company and it’s directors.
Financials
You will need to know who is in control of your company. You will also need your accounts and/or financial information
Required Documentation
You will be required to upload the following documentation. The ESFA will assess these documents to check they are fit for purpose:
- Financial evidence covering either the finalised latest accounting period or an actual / forecast 12-month period
- A continuity plan for apprenticeship training
- An equality and diversity policy
- A safeguarding policy
- A Prevent duty policy
- A health and safety policy
- A complaints policy
- A contract for services template with employers
- A commitment statement template
- A policy for professional development of employees
- A copy of your management hierarchy’s expectations for quality and high standards in apprenticeship training
Text Reponses and Delivery Information
You will be required to answer the following
questions. The space for answers varies
from question to question ranging to 750 words. The ESFA will assess if your answers meet their requirements.
- Has your organisation engaged with employers to deliver apprenticeship training to their employees? If yes who?
- How will your organisation manage its relationship with employers?
- How will your organisation promote apprenticeships to employers?
- What is your organisation’s process for initial assessments to recognise prior learning?
- What is your organisation’s process to assess English and maths qualifications for apprentices?
- How will you deliver the assessments in English and maths?
- Where will you deliver the assessments in English and maths?
- How will you continue to deliver English and maths training and assessments if there’s a significant event?
- Does your organisation expect to use subcontractors in the first / next 12 months of joining the RoATP? (If you are a new provider you will need to detail first 12 months, an existing provider will need to detail the next 12 months of delivery)
- How will your organisation carry out due diligence on its subcontractors?
- What type of apprenticeship training will your organisation offer?
- What type of apprenticeship training will your organisation offer?
- How is your organisation ensuring its ready to deliver training in apprenticeship standards?
- How will your organisation transition from apprenticeship frameworks to apprenticeship standards?
- How will your organisation engage with End Point Assessment Organisations (EPAO’s)?
- How does your organisation plan to engage and work with awarding bodies?
- How will your organisation train its apprentices?
- How will your organisation ensure apprentices are supported during their apprenticeship training?
- How will your organisation ensure apprentices are supported during their apprenticeship training?
- How will your organisation provide support to its apprentices? (Employer route)
- What other ways will your organisation use to support its apprentices? (Employer route)
- How many starts does your organisation forecast in the first/next 12 months of joining the RoATP? (If you are a new provider you will need to detail first 12 months, an existing provider will need to detail the next 12 months of delivery) (employer route)
- When will your organisation be ready to deliver training against these forecasts?
- Will your organisation recruit new staff to deliver training against these forecast?
- What is the typical ratio of the staff who deliver training to the apprentices?
- How does your proposed staff to learner ratio offer quality support to your apprentices?
- What teaching methods will your organisation use to deliver 20% off the job training?
- How will your organisation ensure 20% off the job training is relevant to the specific apprenticeship being delivered?
- Where will your apprentices be trained?
- Tell us who has overall accountability for apprenticeships in your organisation
- Who is in your organisation’s management hierarchy for apprenticeships?
- Tell us how these expectations for quality and high standards in apprenticeship training are monitored and evaluated
- Tell us who’s responsible for maintaining these expectations for quality and high standards in apprenticeship training
- How are these expectations for quality and high standards in apprenticeship training communicated to employees?
- Does your organisation have a team responsible for developing and delivering training?
- Does your organisation have someone responsible for developing and delivering training?
- Who has the team worked with to develop and deliver training?
- Who has this person worked with to develop and deliver training?
- How has the team worked with other organisations to develop and deliver training?
- How has this person worked with other organisations to develop and deliver training?
- How has this person worked with employers to develop and deliver training?
- How has the team worked with employers to develop and deliver training?
- How has this person worked with employers to develop and deliver training?
- Tell us who’s the overall manager for this team
- How much experience do they have in developing and delivering training?
- Tell us who’s the overall manager for this team
- Do they have at least 3 months experience in developing and delivering training?
- What sectors will your organisation offer apprenticeship training in?
- Add the most experienced employee for each sector
- What standards will your organisation offer apprenticeship training in?
- How many starts does your organisation forecast in the sector in the first/next 12 months of joining the RoATP? (If you are a new provider you will need to detail first 12 months, an existing provider will need to detail the next 12 months of delivery)
- How many employees will deliver training in the sector
- Who’s the most experienced employee in the ‘sector?
- Please detail the individuals experience in the sector
- What’s their experience of delivering training in this sector?
- Do they have any qualifications relating to this sector?
- Are they approved by awarding bodies to deliver training?
- Do they have sector or trade body memberships?
- What type of apprenticeship training have they delivered?
- How have they delivered training to apprentices?
- What’s their experience of delivering training to apprentices?
- What’s the typical duration of training they have delivered to apprentices?
- Give an example of how your organisation used this policy to improve employee expertise
- Give an example of how your organisation used this policy to maintain employee teaching and training knowledge
- What is your organisation’s process for evaluating the quality of training delivered?
- How has your organisation made improvements using its process for evaluating the quality of training delivered?
- Does your organisation’s process for evaluating the quality of training delivered include apprenticeship training?
- How will your organisation evaluate the quality of apprenticeship training?
- How will your organisation evaluate the quality of apprenticeship training?
- How will your organisation review its process for evaluating the quality of training delivered?
- Does your organisation have systems and processes in place to collect apprenticeship data?
- Does your organisation have the resources to submit Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data?
- Who is the individual accountable for submitting ILR data for your organisation?
If you would like our support with an application contact us at apply@roatp.info – our consultants have a 100% track record with RoATP applications