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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Perhaps I may suggest that Amendment 89 probably relates to new subsection (2), at the bottom of page 20, which talks about failing, ""to complete the agreed study or training"." Amendment 89 seeks to describe what that means whereas Amendment 90 refers to paragraph (c). I think that the Bill is strong enough. If a trainee—it does not matter whether he or she is in an apprenticeship—fails to attend a course, the college will automatically advise the employer that they have not attended. They do this regularly, on a weekly basis. If I am supposed to go every week but do not turn up, my employer will get a phone call saying, "Do you realise that Margaret Wall hasn’t turned up?". So I think that that is taken care of. On the other amendment, in reality new Section 63H(2)(c) certainly says that if an individual, ""undertakes, or proposes to undertake, study or training that differs from the agreed study"," the agreement would be broken. The employee would lose the opportunity to have that training leave continued. They would not be doing what the agreement asked them to.