{"id":288,"date":"2014-10-24T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T10:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T10:36:06","slug":"cameron-create-3-million-apprenticeships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/cameron-create-3-million-apprenticeships\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron to create 3 million apprenticeships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/warehouse-apprentice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/warehouse-apprentice.jpg\" alt=\"Warehouse apprentice at work with his supervisor\" width=\"219\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>Should Prime Minister David Cameron return to No 10 in next May\u2019s general election, he plans to make big changes to benefits, welfare and apprenticeships. His plans to end youth employment will be powered by an aim to create up to 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020. Cameron says that the plan \u201cwill help give us the skills to compete with the rest of the world. And it will mean more hope, more opportunity, and more security for our young people, helping them get on in life and make something of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to create these additional apprenticeships, the policy will see the benefits cap reduced from \u00a326,000 to \u00a323,000 and 18 to 21-year-olds will no longer receive housing benefit on jobseekers\u2019 allowance. Instead, a time-limited youth allowance will replace jobseeker\u2019s allowance to encourage more young people to take up apprenticeships and traineeships.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister is also encouraging all FTSE 100 companies in Britain to provide more apprenticeships by 2020. But of course, it\u2019s not just larger companies that will be looking to increase the number of apprentices they\u2019re hiring, but also medium and small businesses, as we were talking about in one of last week\u2019s news articles \u2013 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/small-businesses-keen-employ-apprentices\/\">Small businesses are keen to employ apprentices<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Prime Minister David Cameron return to No 10 in next May\u2019s general election, he plans to make big changes to benefits, welfare and apprenticeships. His plans to end youth employment will be powered by an aim to create up to 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020. Cameron says that the plan \u201cwill help give us the skills to compete with the rest of the world. And it will mean more hope, more opportunity, and more security for our young people, helping them get on in life and make something of themselves.\u201d In order to create these additional apprenticeships, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cameron to create 3 million apprenticeships - Latest ATG Apprenticeships News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prime Minister David Cameron has been talking about his plans for apprenticeships if he returns to No 10 after next May&#039;s general election.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/cameron-create-3-million-apprenticeships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cameron to create 3 million apprenticeships - 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