We welcome the Department’s plan to introduce a non-graduate apprenticeship, specifically for experienced non-teaching staff alongside the existing graduate apprenticeship, as an opportunity to recruit non-graduates who are already working within the education sector into teaching. However, we are concerned that fewer than 1000 people have taken an apprenticeship route into teaching since 2019. Which suggest this remains a minor and specialist route into teaching, given the wider expansion of higher-level apprenticeships we believe there is more scope to expand the use of apprenticeships in growing the teaching workforce.