The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has approved the frameworks for two new apprenticeships under the government’s Trailblazer initiative.
The Trailblazer apprenticeship scheme has been designed to enable the sport and recreation industry to design and define industry standards and training pathways and to proactively address skills shortages in the sector.
The first two apprenticeship standards to have been approved, and announced earlier in the year, are those for personal trainer and leisure duty manager.
CIMSPA, having co-ordinated and funded the application process for the standards with support from ukactive, will now manage the development of assessment plans for both standards, readying them for delivery. StreetGames are also developing an apprenticeship standard, the Community Health and Sport Activator apprenticeship as part of the Trailblazer programme.
Richard Millard, partnerships director at Places for People Leisure and chair of the physical activity Trailblazer said, “I’m very pleased that the hard work of the employers who took part in this process has paid off with the news that government has approved our apprenticeship standards,”
“The continued success of the physical activity Trailblazer process brings us closer to achieving the goal of delivering a future-fit, skilled workforce ready to give both private and public sector employers the high quality staff they need, and to take on the challenges of the wider preventative health agenda.”
CIMSPA CEO Tara Dillon added that she hopes the organisation can maintain the momentum from this boost to deliver the finished standards and “ensure the sector maximises its apprenticeships funding potential.”
