Top 50 SME Employers for Apprenticeships 2023 - Beech Tree Childcare

Recipient: Beech Tree Childcare

Date: Sunday 02 Jul 2023

‘Beech Tree Childcare have been recognised as an outstanding apprenticeship employer in the government’s latest rankings, placed at number 39 across all industries and #1 in the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers for the Early Years sector.

The Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers celebrates England’s outstanding small & medium-sized apprenticeship employers in 2023, recognising their commitment to creating new apprenticeships, the diversity of their apprentices, and the number of apprentices who successfully achieve their apprenticeships. The rankings are produced annually by the Department for Education, in partnership with Highfliers Research, who independently assess and rank the nation’s top apprenticeship employers.

Nick Squire, business director at Beech Tree Childcare, said: “Apprenticeships are such an asset not only to the business but as an opportunity for young and old to gain true practical experience whilst earning and learning on the job. We are very clear with our apprentices that the work input creates career opportunities output, as a few of our early apprentices are now also doing education degrees and have progressed into management for the business at our second setting.”

https://www.topapprenticeshipemployers.co.uk/files/Top50ASMEE23.pdf

Nick added ' It’s fantastic to be recognised for the work we do, working closely with The Angmering School running career days and taking pupils on for work experience, with some of them going on to do full apprenticeships with us, we started this journey with our first apprentice in 2012 and since then have gone from strength to strength. We have very little staff and apprentice churn, not only because of the enhanced packages we offer staff with opportunities to learn, grow, earn extra time off, volunteer, along with Medical Health Insurance, but because of how the team are trained on their perceivable knowledge gaps rather than a carte blanche approach with the Training Leads being able to identify the gaps through our Trending Summative Assessment Tool.'’