PBD, a Suffolk-based training company which employs 20 people, would have been crippled if it had had to fork out for the Government's legal costs, its owner has said.
The company took Skills for Care and Development (SfCD) to court last October to get the five-year time limit on GCSEs for Level 3 apprentices removed from the early years apprenticeship framework, arguing that the removal of functional skills was also unlawful.
The rule meant that GCSEs which were more than five-years-old could not count towards an apprenticeship unless they were an A grade. As a result, many apprentices had to resit their ‘out of date’ exams again in order to receive apprenticeship funding from the Government.
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