The government has announced the second wave of apprenticeship frameworks that will be closed to new starts, with of total of 60 facing termination in December. The announcement was made by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) on the gov.uk website today, indicating that frameworks will be shut down towards the end of the year. It said: “We have now published a second batch of 60 apprenticeship frameworks that we will withdraw for new starts from December 1, 2016. “These frameworks had a low number of reported starts in the 2014 to 2015 and the 2015 to 2016 funding years or have provision covered by developing apprenticeship standards.” The number of apprenticeship frameworks to be removed has jumped considerably from the first batch of just seven scheduled to be switched off in June. The second group to be removed includes subjects such as banking, ceramics manufacturing, fundraising and public relations (find a full list below). The SFA release included a comment that confirmed the change “will not affect those apprentices currently completing their apprenticeship on these frameworks”. On March 2, FE Week reported that the government had announced the first seven apprenticeship frameworks to be closed to new starts from June 1, 2016. This included frameworks in blacksmithing, engineering and manufacturing technologies, campaigning business administration and law, energy assessment and advice, retail and commercial enterprise. The closures were again attributed to a lack of starts in these areas between 2014 and 2016. In December last year, FE Week reported that the government had scrapped plans to stop funding all apprenticeship frameworks after 2017/18. The cut-off, that would ensure providers were only delivering new apprenticeship standards come 2018/19, was first announced in October 2013. But it was revealed in the government’s 2020 vision document, published on December 7, that the 2017/18 end of frameworks has now been dropped. According to the document, the government’s “aim was for all new apprenticeship starts to be on standards from 2017/18” instead of existing apprenticeship frameworks. However, it added: “We think the recent announcement of the apprenticeship levy warrants giving employers longer to consider which occupations they will require apprenticeships for. “To allow for this, we envisage a migration from apprenticeship frameworks to standards over the course of the Parliament, with as much of this to take place by 2017/18 as possible.” Here’s the full list published today: Framework Code Franmewok Name 627 Advanced Diagnostics and Management Principles 586 Advertising and Marketing Communications 598 Animal Technology 639 Automotive Clay Modelling 590 Banking 452 Bookkeeping 610 Broadcast Production 554 Building Energy Management Systems 581 Business Innovation and Growth 469 Ceramics Manufacturing 546 Combined Manufacturing Processes 415 Commercial Moving 619 Contact Centre Operations Management 493 Costume and Wardrobe 621 Craft and Technical Roles in Film and Television 624 Creative Craft Practitioner 614 Criminal Investigation 409 Emergency Fire Service Operations 564 Engineering Construction 604 Engineering Environmental Technologies 552 Enterprise 607 Explosives Storage and Maintenance 577 Express Logistics 553 Extractives and Mineral Processing Occupations 585 Fashion and Textiles:Technical 530 Fencing 568 Fish Husbandry and Fish Management 557 Fundraising 635 Furniture, Furnishings and Interiors Manufacturing 567 Health Informatics 470 Health Pathology Support 611 Information Security 589 Insurance 603 Intelligence Analysis 622 Interactive Design and Development 629 Jewellery Manufacturing, Silversmithing and Allied Trades 592 Learning Support 601 Legal Advice 450 Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Management Services 549 Local Taxation and Benefits 571 Locksmithing 411 Mail and Package Distribution 597 Metal Processing and Allied Operations 593 Mineral Products Technology 606 Multi-skilled Vehicle Collision Repair 496 Music Business 426 Nuclear Working 451 Payroll 424 Polymer Processing Operations 638 Procurement 503 Production of Coatings 615 Professional Aviation Pilot Practice 572 Public Relations 623 Rail Engineering Overhead Line Construction 608 Retail Management 609 Sound Recording, Engineering and Studio Facilities 510 Spa Therapy 618 Sustainable Resource Operations and Management 558 Volunteer Management 576 Wood and Timber Processing and Merchants Industry