The new apprenticeship funding rules (2025/26) have now been published! Join us for our annual business-critical webinar series to plan for the changes and understand the practical actions you will need to take across your organisation.
We’ve done a lot of thinking for you. Using the stages of the learner journey, this 2-part webinar series will walk through the updates, what it means operationally for different teams along the way, where new risks might arise and practical ways you can mitigate them.
We’ll also give you a detailed “Changes Action Plan”, setting out all the key changes and actions you need to take across different teams.
Having consolidated the rules and developed models of best practice, for change this session will explore:
- How the funding rule changes will impact on the learner journey:
o Pre-entry
o Entry
o On-programme
o Gateway and end-point assessment
o Progression - Specific changes you will need to make to your ILR and funding administration and management
- Practical adaptions you will need to make to your systems, processes and templates
- Q&A
- We will issue a detailed implementation action plan to work through with this session
Taking account of any further clarifications and further examples of best practice, this Q&A session will include quality perspectives on the changes as well as the opportunity to get best practice answers to your questions
- Updates and clarifications
- Quality perspectives
- Q&A
About your session
These sessions will be facilitated by David Lockhart-Hawkins, SDN’s compliance and funding expert who has supported hundreds of providers in their apprenticeship journey including some of the UK’s largest, highest quality, specialist and new providers.
David’s in-depth understanding of curriculum design and quality, as well as funding, gives him a unique insight into the practical implications of funding rule changes.
These sessions are designed for apprenticeship providers – compliance and operational staff, quality managers, and leaders overseeing the impact on the apprenticeship delivery journey.
“This was excellent. You feel that an awful lot of work has gone into producing this, packed with helpful content, guidance and experience. Thank you so much!”
“I will be recommending colleagues to sign up to training alerts. Really looking forward to attending other sessions.”
“Very useful – as always. Thorough and detailed, with great slides to support.”
“It was very clear that a large amount of time and effort has gone into the preparation of today’s event – and that is why SDN is my first choice for webinars.”
“Excellent coverage, well planned and organised with clear expertise in the funding rules”
– Event attendees
Booking and payment:
You can either attend the live sessions or be sent the recording and materials if you prefer to review them in your own time.
If you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority), and unable to book via card, please email us. When you make a booking, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)
SDN CPD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.
Webinar series breakdown
- Live webinars
- Webinar recordings
- Slide decks
- Changes action plan
- Q&A segment
Dates:
Session 1 – Detailed implementation (3 July 2025, 10.00am-1pm)
Session 2 – Supporting change (28th July 2025, 10.00am-11.00am)
Costs:
Single ticket for the webinar series – £225.00 (+VAT)
Group ticket for the webinar series – £395.00 (+VAT) – Max 5 attendees