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ALB, Arm’s Length Bodies, Public Bodies, Quangos, Public Servants, Civil Servants

Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE)

Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is a Crown NDPB sponsored by Department for Education. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) works with employer groups called trailblazers to oversee the development, approval and publication of occupational standards (which underpin apprenticeships and technical qualifications) and assessment plans and makes recommendations on funding bands to the Department for Education for each standard. It also oversees the occupational maps for T Levels, other technical qualifications (TQs) and apprenticeships. IfATE is responsible for procuring and contract managing Awarding Organisations to develop the TQs which constitute the main classroom-based element of T Levels. T Levels are two-year technical study programmes, one of three major options for students to study at level 3 alongside apprenticeships and A levels. It has also implemented a national approvals process for Higher Technical Qualifications and post 16 qualifications. IfATE ensures that all apprenticeship assessments are quality assured. IfATE has a set of important functions and accountabilities within the wider skills system. This includes a statutory oversight duty which requires IfATE to keep under review education and training within its remit, and the effect of its functions on the range and availability of that education and training. In exercising this duty, IfATE is required to consider the overall coherence of technical education provision within the system to ensure that the range and availability of apprenticeships, technical qualifications and other technical education is appropriate

Regional Remit

IfATE operates in England. They do not have any designated headquarters.


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2023/24 Chair's Name

Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE

Established

2017

Ombudsman

Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman

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Finances

This figure provides an overview of Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s income and expenditure during the 2023/24 financial year.

Some ALBs, such as those with Trading Fund status, do not classify their spending data by RDEL, CDEL, and AME and will report £0 for these values.
For more information regarding RDEL, CDEL and AME, please see our analysis of ALB Spending.

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Staffing

The figure below shows the types of staff employed by Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on 31 March 2024.


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