The Traffic Operator Apprenticeship has finally been given the green light, seven years after it was first created, and its funding allocation doubled to £6,000.
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE) has revealed that Bridget Philipson, the Labour government’s recently appointed secretary of state for education, has signed off the long-delayed apprenticeship and agreed to boost the funding allocation to £6,000.
The approval of the 12-month, Level Two Traffic Operator Apprenticeship comes after years of concerted industry lobbying by both the Trailblazer Group for Transport and Logistics and Road to Logistics.
The apprenticeship was launched by IFATE in 2017 in the form of a joint apprenticeship programme for both traffic operators and removals operators – a decision that left both sectors puzzled, since there was little if any synergy between the two sectors.
As a result, both industries spent some time lobbying for the course to be redesigned and then working with IFATE on the redesign.
