Your apprentice needs to:

• be the minimum school leaving age in Northern Ireland.
• be employed or be about to take up paid employment as an apprentice with a Northern Ireland based company.
• be working a minimum of 21 hours per week (which includes time for ‘off-the-job’ training).

Many Northern Ireland companies have successfully trained their apprentices through 21 Training and the Apprenticeships programme and their businesses have reaped the benefits and seen an improvement in staff performance and general productivity.